The following projects allow students to make use of the information they will collect on local policy issues and alternative approaches to addressing them.

1. Use Data for Community Needs Assessment. Students may want to collect data or other information about an issue they see as important in their community and prepare a report that summarizes their findings.

2. Conduct a Survey. Students may want to conduct a survey about issues of greatest concern to their community and solutions favored by community residents. Their project would include a description of how they went about conducting the survey and choosing their respondents, and an analysis of the survey's results.

3. Create Issues Posters. For this project, students in the class will be assigned an issue (or one dimension of an issue that is part of their Youth Issues Agenda) and will make a poster containing information that describes the issue and suggests at least two approaches to addressing the issue.

4. Create Issues PowerPoint Presentations. The class may want to construct PowerPoint presentations about local issues, in which they describe the issue and alternative approaches to addressing it.

5. Create an Issues video. Using a video camera, the class can make a video that describes the issue with images of the community and interviews with residents and/or government officials.

6. Host an Issues Expo. Students would arrange to hold an expo in the school for other students in which they make presentations about the issues that concern them and hold a discussion with other students on what can be done to address the issues.

7. Host a Community Issues Forum. Students may want to invite community leaders or community residents to a forum or town meeting at the school in which issues are discussed.

8. Design a website. Students could design or enhance a website featuring their local government, a nonprofit agency or an issue from their Youth Issues Agenda.

9. "Testify" at a Public Hearing. Once students have researched an issue and approaches to addressing it, they may want to prepare "testimony" that could be offered to their local legislative body. Students may want to hold a mock public hearing at which they offer this testimony; they may want to make videotapes of testimony in their classrooms and send them to their legislative body; or they may want to prepare written testimony that is sent to their elected representatives. Students could deliver "testimony" in class to invited community representatives or local legislators.

10. Write Letters-to-the Editor and Op-eds. Students may write letters-to-the-editor or essays (500-750 words in length) that describe the issue of most concern to them, and/or some of the approaches that they support. These letters and op-eds can be sent to their school newspaper or a local newspaper for consideration for publication.