Project

CAS projects

Every CAS student must be involved in at least one CAS project of significant duration.

A CAS project is a 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 programme.

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.

A CAS project can address any single strand of CAS, or combine two or all three strands. The following examples are provided to help generate further ideas without limiting the scope and direction of a CAS project.

• Creativity: A student group plans, designs and creates a mural.

• Activity: Students organize and participate in a sports team including training sessions and matches against other teams.

• Service: Students set up and conduct tutoring for people in need.

• Creativity and activity: Students choreograph a routine for their marching band.

• Service and Activity: Students plan and participate in the planting and maintenance of a garden with members of the local community.

• Service and Creativity: Students identify that children at a local school need backpacks and subsequently design and make the backpacks out of recycled materials.

• Creativity, Activity, and Service: Students rehearse and perform a dance production for a community retirement home.

1. Creativity – A student group plans, designs, and creates a mural (official IB example)

2. Activity and Service – Students organize, plan, and execute a local football tournament with entry proceeds going to local food banks

3. Creativity and Service – Regularly bake cakes, cookies, and pastries and deliver them to a local community retirement home

4. Creativity and Service – Students write, plan, film, edit, and release a movie. Screen this movie at the school and donate proceeds to a charity.

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

6. Creativity – Organize and execute weekly rap battles at your school to eventually crown one ultimate winner.

7. Creativity – A student group sets up regular after school music class for younger students culminating in a final performance

8. Service – Students set up and conduct tutoring for people in need (official IB example).

9. Creativity and Activity – Students choreograph a routine for their marching band (official IB example)

10. Creativity – Students organize a school fashion show where talented, creative students get to display their garments.

11. Creativity and Service – Students organize a school talent show with proceeds going to local charities

12. Creativity – Start an MUN club at your school and join some international school MUN meets!

13. Creativity – set up a food blog where you go around and review local restaurants

14. Creativity – 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!

15. Activity and Service – Become a manager! Contact the PE team (football, basketball, baseball, or any other sport) and see if you can volunteer as an assistant coach for the season.

16. Creativity and Service – 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.

17. Creativity and Service – set up a musical performance

18. Activity and Service – Students organize, plan, and execute a local netball tournament

19. Creativity – Set up Lip Sync Battles at your school during lunchtimes. Conduct the competition over several weeks and ultimately declare a winner.

20. Creativity and Service – create a birthday project at your school where all students and teachers are delivered a gift or candy on their birthday!

21. Creativity and Service – Students identify that children at a local school need backpacks and subsequently design and make the backpacks out of recycled materials (official IB example)

22. Activity and Service – referee a number of local football matches

23. Creativity and Service – make a play and perform it at your school. The proceeds will then be donated to charity.

24. Creativity, Activity, and Service – Students rehearse and perform a dance production

25. Service – read to students in primary

26. Activity and Service – set yourself a physical challenge – e.g. cycling 500 kilometers – and collect donations to give to charity

27. Activity and Service – Students organize, plan, and execute a local basketball tournament with entry proceeds going to a charity

28. Service – form a recycling club to take of separating materials that your school might be throwing to landfill unnecessarily

29. Service – help with an infrastructure project.

30. Creativity and Service – set up a website that has healthy food recipes to promote better choices amongst your peers

31. Service – teach others a new language! You can tutor them to enable them to progress

32. Creativity and Service – write some book reviews for your local library

33. Service – host a book drive!

34. Creativity and Service – host a video game tournament with the entrance fees all donated to charity

35. Creativity and Service – help create and be in charge of the school year book!

36. Activity and Service – form a Yoga group and conduct sessions

37. Creativity and Service – hold an art competition and then display the entries during a gallery night with profits donated to a charity

38. Creativity – Organize and execute weekly stand up comedy events at your school to eventually crown one ultimate winner

39. Creativity and Service – Students put together a concert at school and donate the proceeds to a charity

40. Service – Form a group to teach children how to do first aid