The Delaware Center for Civics Education Hosts the Project Citizen Program Showcase

In March, the Delaware Center for Civics Education (DCCE) in UD’s Institute for Public Administration (IPA) hosted the annual Project Citizen Program showcase. DCCE’s project director, Fran O’Malley, coordinated the event at UD’s Trabant Center with support from assistant director Scott Abbott and IPA senior fellow Ed Freel. Each year, state coordinators of the program send one outstanding student portfolio to the Project Citizen National Showcase, where evaluators officially judge the level of achievement attained by each portfolio. This year’s showcase involved first-year high school students from Newark Charter School. Students were tasked with identifying a local policy issue and developing a four-panel display and a five-section documentation binder that adequately proposed a solution. Students identified the problem, proposed alternative solutions, identified and explained their chosen policy, and then formulated an action plan on how to get the policy adopted. During the event, staff and faculty from the Biden School, IPA, the Center for Economic Education, and the Department of Education served as judges for the portfolios and offered feedback on each group’s display. The Institute for Public Administration is a research and public service center in the Joseph R. Biden, Jr. School of Public Policy and Administration.

Article by Sophonie Milord. Originally posted in UDaily's For the Record​​.​​​