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What is a Passion Project? 

A passion project is an independent activity, separate from regular school work, driven by genuine personal interest, creativity, and intrinsic motivation, often to explore a skill, cause, or subject for personal growth, creative expression, or community impact. It's a self-directed endeavor that showcases initiative, intellectual curiosity, and problem-solving, distinguishing itself from required tasks by its deep personal connection and potential to build a portfolio or explore new areas. 

Charter Option

In the Charter Option, students will choose a topic, that they are interested in, which they will explore over the course of the next 2 - 3 months. They will have to identify a purpose and end goal. Students will record what they do each week and will also meet with one of the junior high teachers weekly to discuss progress and goals. The project will culminate with a student reflection on what they learned and how the project went and a presentation.

Connection to the Charter

The Passion Project easily connects to our charter goals. 

Charter Goal One

1. students will recognize and understand the foundational knowledge of agricultural literacy 

Seeds sparking the interest into agricultural literacy will be sown through early exposure to the roots of agriculture. These will be intertwined and infused within daily activities, furthering students’ conceptual understanding of how deeply permeating agriculture is within daily life and society. 

Many students have chosen topics related to agriculture which will enhance their agricultural literacy.

Charter Goal Two

1. students will demonstrate problem solving through adaptability, resilience, and critical thinking

This goal seeks to ensure students are provided with ample opportunity to develop crucial soft skills that they can carry with them throughout their academic and professional careers. Through exposure to NHCS’ innovative academics and unique programming, problem solving along with other soft skills will be developed and nurtured. 

Depending on the topic chosen, through either research or a hands on topic, students will have the opportunity to improve their problem solving through adaptability, resilience and critical thinking skills as they work to answer a question or in creating something.

Charter Goal Three

1. students will understand the value of goals and outcomes

In pursuit of NHCSA’s vision, this future-focussed goal is centred upon developing students’ goal and outcome cognizance. Throughout students’ tenure at NHCS, the importance and value of goals and outcomes will be sown through hands-on experience.  

Many students are choosing hands on projects in which they will be able to create something or are completing experiments. Regardless of what they choose, students will set goals and identify a final outcome.

Charter Goal Four

1. students will achieve academic success while displaying leadership

Bridging two contexts together, students can simultaneously display academic success relevant to themselves as individual learners and skills necessary to leadership. Through innovative academics, agricultural literacy, and stewardship, the seeds of success and leadership will be imparted upon students. 

Students will be able to demonstrate successful learning in a topic that they are passionate about. They will then have an opportunity to be a leader in that area as they share their knowledge and what they have learned with others.

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