Examples from GCM students

DP class of 2027 projects and experiences

Want to see what your peers are doing? There are many who have anything set in limestone yet. The entries highlighted in yellow have issues as projects. Remember, what is a project to you may not suffice for IB and CAS.

IB requires candidates to work for at least 1-2 months and 24 hours toward a CAS project that has a demonstrable outcome, i.e., something to show for your efforts. You must lead and plan. Therefore, coaching fulfills the leadership aspect of the CAS project, but how did you plan? How will demonstrate that planning? Check out examples below.

DP class of 2026 projects and experiences

Want to see what your Class of '26 peers are doing?

Having issues with your ideas?

Many candidates want to create a blog, an Instagram account, a website, a YouTube channel to explore a variety of issues or bring awareness to an issue. One of the major issues with creating a website, adding videos, or writing a blog is your audience. Who will read or watch what you create? How will you publicize it? What good is awareness without action. In order for me to approve projects like these, please determine how you will answer the questions I just posed. What can you do beyond making someone aware of the issue(s) surrounding your idea(s)? Here are some ideas from your peers.

Work with an outside group

Grace S (DP '25) decided to work with the New York Wolf Conservation Center so that her website would reach a larger audience. Great idea.

Bring the page to life

Sulaiman B. (DP '25) had the idea to create a food blog. As I explained above, who is going to read a random blog? He came to a lunch session and brainstormed a bit. Eventually, he came up with the idea to pair the food blog with a supper club where he will invite his friends to make dishes based on a theme, e.g. South Asian food, Tex Mex, etc. Then, he suggested that he might bring the food to TOK class in the spring. Yes please.

Anything can be a CAS experience. A CAS project just takes a bit more initiative, planning, and leadership. You've got this one.

Many students here at Marshall create blogs, web pages, etc. Instead of including all of them on the front page, here is a partial list. Want to get involved and perhaps make one of these your own CAS project? I post these links during students' junior year, so some of them may have gone defunct since then.

• "5 Star IB Marshall":  IB Biology videos that contain information from SL and some HL. Some of the other subjects are math, chemistry, history, physics, and coding 

• Basketball skills videos, by Kailen Jordan (GCM '20)

• "Bipartisan Buzz" by Nicole Chebili (GCM '20)

• "College Admissions" by Katuta Kapinka (GCM '21)

• DiSTRCTD, an album by Ife (GCM '20)

• "EMT Chronicles: Stories from a high school EMT" by Sophie Delta (GCM '20)

• "IB Insider: making the IB diploma easier" by Alyson Reynolds (GCM '20)

• "Just A Heads Up" a podcast by Dhyana H. and Samiyah Z. (GCM ' 20)

• "Marshall Math: Making Math Easier for Students" a help website from Jad Makdissi and Parth Mittal (GCM '20)

• "Marshall's Declassified IB Survival Guide" by Gwyneth Murphy (GCM '19)

• "Raising Awareness for Mental Disorders and Illnesses" by Brandon Campbell (GCM '20)

• "Study Buddy" website from Shruti Sekar (GCM '20)

• "Surviving High School: Tips and Tricks to Help You Get By" by Ashley George & Abigail Han (GCM '20)

• See the Team Innovators YouTube channel

• "Succeed at GCM" by Jhenesy Lopez Fuentes and Parus Hundal

• "What is the IB Diploma?", one of a series of videos about IB by Nica Albertson.

• "Who Have I Doomed?: Timeline of a coronavirus scare", by Sabina Lum, The Provincetown Independent. 6 August 2020.