CAS Project ideas

CAS Project Ideas

What do CAS projects involve?

CAS requires students to take part in a range of experiences and at least one project.

A CAS project is a self-initiated, collaborative, well-considered series of sequential CAS experiences, engaging students in one or more of the CAS strands of creativity, activity, and service. CAS students must be involved in at least one CAS project during their CAS program.

The primary purpose of the CAS project is to ensure participation in sustained collaboration. Through this level of engagement students may discover the benefits of teamwork and of achievements realized through an exchange of ideas and abilities. A CAS project challenges students to show initiative, demonstrate perseverance, and develop skills such as those of cooperation, problem-solving and decision-making.

A CAS project involves collaboration between a group of students or with members of the wider community. Students work as part of a team, with all members being contributors. A CAS project offers students the opportunity to be responsible for, or to initiate, a part of or the entire CAS project. Working collaboratively also provides opportunities for individual students to enhance and integrate their personal interests, skills and talents into the planning and implementation of CAS projects.

All CAS projects should use the CAS stages as a framework for implementation to ensure that all requirements are met.

Here are examples of potential CAS Projects to give you ideas and to help you find the perfect CAS Project to take on!

NOTE: This list is made up of CAS Project ideas gathered from Official IBO Resources or successful CAS projects from our IB graduates. Before choosing your final CAS project idea make sure to consult with your CAS Coordinator and bring your project full circle at the end with CAS reflections.

Creativity Project Ideas

Organize and execute weekly rap battles at your school to eventually crown one ultimate winner.
Organize and execute weekly stand-up comedy events at your school to eventually crown one ultimate winner.
A student group plans, designs, and creates a mural (official IB example).
A student group sets up regular after-school music classes for younger students culminating in a final performance.
Students organize a school fashion show for creative and talented students to display their garments.
A student group sets up an after-school extracurricular activity for the student body. This could be a choir, a dance group, RPG, Lego building, or anything else you can think of!
Set up Lip Sync Battles at your school during lunchtimes. Conduct the competition over several weeks and ultimately declare a winner.
Start an MUN club at your school and join some international school MUN meets!
Set up a food blog where you go around and review local restaurants.

Service Project Ideas

Students set up an initiative at the schools for students to be able to volunteer at local homeless shelters.
Host a book drive!
Create and distribute handmade sanitary towels to girls that don’t have access to menstrual products.
Read to students at a local primary school.
Students set up and conduct tutoring for people in need (official IB example). Fun fact - this is how Lanterna got its start 15 years ago!
Organise a toy drive before the festive months to donate gifts to disadvantaged children.
Volunteer as gardeners in a local public space.
Form a group to teach children how to do first aid.
Save the environment by regularly going out and planting trees, and perhaps setting up a club so that others can follow in your footsteps.
Find a local public area - e.g. a beach, forest or park - and form a clean-up club!
Teach others a new language! You can tutor them to enable them to progress.
Form a recycling club to take of separating materials that your school might be throwing into landfills unnecessarily for your CAS project.
Help with an infrastructure project. For instance, helping build a playground at the local primary school.

Activity Ideas

Students organize and participate in a sports team including training sessions and matches against other teams (official IB example).

Activity and Service Ideas

Students organize, plan, and execute a local football tournament with entry proceeds going to local food banks.
Referee a number of local football matches.
Set up a special needs camp for students with learning disabilities at your school. This could involve competitions, games, or learning activities.
Check out if your school offers any service trips. Sign up to become a part of it!
Students plan and participate in the planting and maintenance of a garden with members of the local community (official IB example).
Become a manager! Contact the school’s coach (football, basketball, baseball, or any other sport) and see if you can volunteer as an assistant coach for the season.
Students organize, plan, and execute a local netball tournament with entry proceeds going to a local mental health charity.
Set yourself a physical challenge - e.g. cycling 500 kilometres - and collect donations to give to charity.
Volunteer to help out as a lifeguard and help clean a local pool for your CAS project.
Form a Yoga group and conduct sessions in local nursing homes.
Students organize, plan, and execute a local basketball tournament. You can raise money and donate the entry proceeds to a local homeless shelter.

Creativity and Service Ideas

Regularly host a bake sale with cakes, cookies, and pastries and deliver them to a local community retirement home.
Set up a website that has healthy food recipes to promote better choices amongst your peers.
Hold an art competition and then display the entries during a gallery night to raise money and then donate the profits to a charity.
CAS students put together a concert at school and donate the proceeds to a charity.
Students write, plan, film, edit, and release a movie. Screen this movie at the school and donate proceeds to a charity.
CAS students can organize a school talent show with proceeds going to local charities.
Set up an international fair at your school. Students and parents can bring food and drinks from their home countries as well as have their own booths where they can teach others about their culture.
Set up a musical performance for people at your local hospital.
Create a birthday project at your school where all students and teachers are delivered a gift or candy on their birthday!
Make a play and perform it at your school. The proceeds will then be donated to charity.
Students identify that children at a local school need backpacks and subsequently design and make the backpacks out of recycled materials (official IB example).
Host a video game tournament for your CAS project with the entrance fees all donated to charity.
Help create and be in charge of the school yearbook!
Write some book reviews for your local library.
Students rehearse and perform a dance production for a community retirement home (official IB example).

Creativity and Activity Ideas

50.Students choreograph a routine for their marching band (official IB example).

Source : https://lanterna.com/blog/50-cas-project-ideas/

Going further

https://www.castrips.org/cas-inspiration-from-the-runners-up-of-this-years-cas-project-challenge/

https://blogs.ibo.org/blog/2016/11/14/creative-projects-for-change/

https://blogs.ibo.org/blog/2015/08/10/terrycao/

https://blogs.ibo.org/blog/2017/01/06/ib-students-collaborate-to-help-a-community-in-need/

https://blog.westbourneschool.com/20-fun-and-rewarding-cas-ideas-for-ib-students-1

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