Take community service, add a whole lot of creativity and a bit of fun, and you’ve got projectOUTREACH.

Seems simple enough: Choose a projectOUTREACH Challenge problem area and attack that problem by designing and implementing an orginial project in your community. En route to a Challenge solution the program guides teams through the solution process, which leads to an incredible number of benefits.

What is ProjectOUTREACH?

• An interdisciplinary, hands-on learning experience for middle school, high school and college aged youth.
• A highly effective educational tool for use by schools as a regular part of the curriculum.
  
• An independent class project or an extra curricular activity.
• An educational youth program that works with programs such as churches, clubs and scouts.
• A program that meets all the guidelines for an effective service/learning program and more.
  
• It has team members that are actively involved in the entire process, which entails cooperative, integrated learning.
• Provides direction, feedback, positive reinforcement, and considerable peer support.
• A program that focuses on the development of creative solutions to community problems.
• It is designed to promote intellectual growth, build character, nourish creativity, develop positive work habits, teach artistic and manual skills, and cultivate positive youth/school/community relations.
• Most of all, projectOUTREACH is FUN!