Project Based Learning - An Amazing Collaboration!

This small group of high schoolers who had experience with robotics teamed up with a local university to do cancer research.  What an amazing partnership!  We promote project-based learning in the real world and this one certainly is a true winner.  Read how these juniors and seniors collaborated regularly with university staff using Skype and produced excellent results! 
While your high schoolers are not apt to engage is such ground-breaking studies, it is a fine example of engaged kids doing something extremely meaningful.  Guess we don't have to worry about these students ever finding a job.


Dawson High students pursue cancer breakthroughs with school project.  Kieran Nicholson.  12.28.14. The Denver Post
http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_27207587/dawson-high-students-pursue-cancer-breakthroughs-school-project

Excellent Model of Project Based Learning in the Classroom

It's always good to read about excellence even though the scenario isn't ours in Title I.  However, I envision something similar with 6 students actively involved in a project that is important to them and for whom they are working.  The last part is important.....picking a project that has potential excitment, both on the part of the student and teacher and then for the receivers of the project.  This is real word stuff and lucky are the higher schoolers taking part in it.
Read it in appreciation for what it is and invision an similar application for our TI classes.

Controlled Chaos:  Project Based Learning.  Meredith Licht, Everyday Education. 3.31.14. The Transylvania Times
http://www.transylvaniatimes.com/story/2014/03/31/education/controlled-chaos-project-based-learning/17300.html