CAS Projects must follow the following five stages:

1. Investigation: Look into your interests, skills, talents and areas for personal growth. For service, you should identify a need you want to address.

2. Preparation: Clarify the roles and responsibilities necessary for the experience or project to be a success, develop a plan of actions to be taken, identify specified resources and timelines, and acquire any skills needed to engage in the CAS experience.

3. Action: Implement your idea or plan. This often requires decision-making and problem-solving. You might work individually, with partners, or in groups.

4. Reflection: Describe what happened, express feelings, generate ideas, and raise questions. Reflection can occur at any time during CAS to further understanding, to assist with revising plans, to learn from the experience, and to make explicit connections between your growth, accomplishments, and the learning outcomes. 

5. Demonstration: You make explicit what and how you learned and what you have accomplished. To do this, you could, for example, share your CAS experiences through your CAS portfolio or with others.