1. Summer Project Tips and Suggestions
Graduation Project
Summer Project Tips and Suggestions

2. Tip #1: save everything!
Never assume that you won’t need papers, receipts, sign-in sheets, pictures, or anything else that might remotely be used as evidence of completion of your project.
In fact, ASK FOR RECEIPTS!
Take MANY pictures
You MUST hold onto your proposals for next year’s English class

3. What is “evidence” for graduation Project?
Evidence can be, but is not limited to, any of the following:
Pictures
Receipts
Fliers
The actual project itself (i.e. built a computer, wrote a book, created a CD, made a movie etc)
Fundraising—copies of letters from donation recipients, checks/funds given, letter of acknowledging they received the donation

4. Tip #2: Journal your experience
There will be THREE Time card checks—one in the second, third and fourth nine weeks—and you will be required to also complete a 500-word reflective log of what you did in that time period.
Journaling your experience each day you work on your project will be the BEST thing you can do over the summer. This will help you complete those three check points during the school year.
Trying to recall what you did months later will be very, VERY difficult. Just take the time to write a few sentences down about what you did that day in a notebook. You will be very happy you did this later.

5. Tip #3: Stay in touch with your Mentor
You’ve completed your project this summer—Great! But you may have forgotten a signature or a form to be completed. Make sure you have access to your mentor throughout the school year.