Through this project, students learned more about themselves and about their community through the stories they captured and shared. After collecting stories, students had to decide which story to share and how to present that story to others, but students were also the audience for the stories of others. Playing this dual role helped students further examine aspects of communication and relate their experience to other, more formal stories they studied in their English class. Students also built a larger sense of community (and by extension, global citizenship) by learning from the stories that others shared. Many of these stories opened the student audience to experiences and cultures that were new and different from their own. Sharing these stories with the larger student body provided a genuine audience and expanded that sense of community to the school as a whole.