Project Citizen Annual State Showcase

Lyman Moore Middle School Advances to National Showcase in New Orleans!
	"Fight the White Pollution: The Dangers of Styrofoam" - Maine State Showcase Exemplarly Portfolio Winners and Maine Representatives at the National Conference of State Legislatures!

On May 16, 2008 at the State House in Augusta, ME middle school students gathered to share their public policy projects. They participated in oral hearings to share their ideas and solutions with one another and adult policy-makers. During the public viewing of projects, each group of students displayed portfolios and binders they prepared highlighting their work and containing thorough documentation of their research.

Students from Holbrook Middle School (MSAD 63) were recognized at the awards ceremony as this year's oral hearing winners with their project, The Warning Zones - Think Fast, Slow Down, Safe a Life!

Each participating class worked for several weeks, first examining a local public policy issue by studying the impact of the problem on the community. Then, they evaluated alternative solutions to the problem, proposed an agreed-upon public policy solution, and finally, created a political action plan to enlist local or state authorities in adopting their proposed policy.

We the People: Project Citizen is a federally funded civic education program for middle grade students. It is a program that promotes competent and responsible participation in local and state government and enables young people to monitor and influence public policy. KIDS is the state coordinator of Project Citizen in Maine.

Participating School Districts

MSAD 59 Madison Jr. High School - Grade 8

Project Title: The Dangers of Imported Food
Project Title: Sunday Hunting

MSAD 63 Holbrook Middle School, Grade 8

Project Title: The Warning Zones - Think Fast, Slow Down, Save a Life!
Project Title: Kiddie Litter - Saving the World One Litter-Free Day at a Time

Portland, Lyman Moore Middle School - Grade 7

Project Title: Keep it on the Down Low: Teenage Hearing Loss from iPod Use
Project Title: Fight the White Pollution: The Dangers of Styrofoam

SU 44 Sabattus Central School - Grade 8

Project Title: Meet Your Meat
Project Title: Banning Abortion

SU 52 Winslow Junior High School - Grade 8

Project Title: Revision of Food Services Program
Project Title: Keeping Sexual Predators from Becoming Sports Officials

SU 98 Southwest Harbor, Pemetic Elementary School - Grade 8

Project Title: A Beef Issue

Special thanks to:

• We the People: Project Citizen Program at the Center for Civic Education
• Corporation for National and Community Service, Learn and Serve America Program
• Bernstein Shur Government Solutions
• Eaton Peabody
• Glenn Nerbak, Distinguished Educator, The Maine Department of Education
• The Maine Office of Substance Abuse
• 2008 Distinguished Guests