This is an excerpt from a tenth grader. This is a first draft — some polishing still needed — but it demonstrates the breadth and depth of project work occurring over a year.

For the “Statement of Readiness” our assignment is to explain our strengths, interests, and success in setting and achieving goals here at The Workshop School. So far in the tenth grade we did a lot of project such as the Digital U project (when we had to make a “wevideo” about a story in our lives. It could be any story you want.), Cardboard Boat project (when the class got put into groups our three (and it was me, Qadir and Kairi) and our assignment was to make a boat out of cardboard and tape.), Solar Panel project (when we had to make a working solar panel. We were given a rechargeable battery and a solar panel and we had to make it be able to charge a cell phone.), Open Mic Night project (we were originally supposed to make a “Poetry Slam” but we added dancing, singing, rapping and also poetry. We were going to make a play but we didn’t want to do the same thing over again. Our assignment was to make an “Open Mic Night” because we thought it would be a great idea.), Kid Science Kit project (where we had to teach children about about a different science topic every week. For example on the first week we each had a planet that we had to teach them. I had Saturn.), Oral History project (where we had to first find two interviewees and interview them on what our two topics were about. It didn’t matter what the topic was about. Mine was on the history of sports. After we were done with that we then had to make three 500 word essays on what we interviewed our interviewees about.), Radio Story project (when in we were in english class we then pick a topic that was a world problem. So I chose to do raising minimum wage. We had to record at least four people and make that into a radio story.) and the Math Trebuchet project (where we had to make a trebuchet in math class.).