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What: |
A student lead, data driven research project designed to build community awareness around issues directly effecting the lives of young people as it increases student access to local resources serving identified needs. |
| Who: |
Apprentices in Citizen Schools at The Harbor School surveying their peers at school and engaging family members, school community members, local community agencies, and the Citizen Schools community in a solution-oriented dialogue around their identified issues. |
| Why: |
To give voice to what is on the minds’ of young people today and to find creative and collaborative ways to solve these issues. To become more fluent in using Data and Math as a tool to gain depth of understanding of the named issues and as a life-long learning tool. |
| How: |
Each apprentice has been part of carefully creating a team topic and developing a hypothesis to explore that particular issue on their collective minds. From this hypothesis, questions were crafted into a survey that was given to the larger population of The Harbor School students. From these surveys, the data was collected, graphed in various types of graphs and carefully analyzed. Data skills were intentionally named and taught as part of this process. |
| WOW: |
The team surveys and the individual graphs will be posted on BostonYouthZone.com, a web page sponsored by the Mayor’s Office and visited by young people across Boston. In addition, as a team, apprentices will draw conclusions based on their hypothesis and draft solution-oriented proposals with the Oral Boards community evaluators for further action around their topic. |
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