Saving Lives Spurs Students to Speak Out on Drug, Alcohol Use

Lake Bluff Middle School chose Project Citizen topic to make an impact.

This wasn’t just a matter of choosing a topic for a project. “With this project, we might save lives,” said Sam Jakubowski, an eighth-grader at Lake Bluff Middle School. This month, Lake Bluff Middle School students in Marsha Crall’s eighth-grade social studies class will submit its solution to drug and alcohol use to Project Citizen, a program of the U.S. Department of Education that encourages kids to learn about and influence public policy. Each year, students from Crall’s class develop a solution to a community issue to submit to Project Citizen. The class will attend regional hearings May 24 at the Lake County Courthouse in Waukegan. Last year, Crall’s class’s “Dangerous Intersection” project placed first in state. “We don’t know if …

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Former Lake Bluff Middle School Students Honored For Project Citizen Work

Invited to continue work on Village Committee on downtown improvements.

A group of former Lake Bluff Middle School students, now freshmen in high school, returned to the school Wednesday to be honored for their work on a Project Citizen program. Project Citizen is geared toward involving students in their local government through work on a project relevant to their area. The group was presented with plaques from both Project Citizen, Illinois Governor Pat Quinn's office, and a letter of congratulations from Illinois Rep. Karen May (D-58). The team's portfolio, entitled “Dangerous Intersection”, took first place at the Project Citizen regional hearing in May and was then chosen by the Illinois State Assembly to represent Illinois in the Project Citizen’s National Showcase in California during the summer where …

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Lake Bluff Middle School's Project Citizen Gains Best in State

Marsha Crall's eighth-grade class's 'Dangerous Intersection' project advances to the national showcase.

Lake Bluff Middle School's eighth-grade Project Citizen presentation, “Dangerous Intersection,” is on the road again. After coming out on top of all Illinois schools at the state level, the portfolio and presentation board has advanced to the national showcase at the Center for Civic Education’s Project Citizen National Showcase in Los Angeles, according to Lake Bluff Middle School social studies teacher Marsha Crall, who advised the students. Students presented the project, discussing the need for a blinking light at the intersection of Scranton Avenue and Sheridan Road in downtown Lake Bluff, at a school hearing in February and at a Village Board meeting in April.  The youngsters then presented the project to Congressional District 10 at…

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