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Future Projects

Sugar, Spice, & Everything Nice?9th or 10th Grade 

We can buy sugar for $4 at the store. How did it get there? How was the value determined? Who produced the sugar? The bag? We have sugar in our homes, but wars have been fought, people subjugated, borders concocted over the product. In this project, students will dive into topics such as colonization, global supply chains, agriculture, and climate change. By the end of the project students will see the impact of colonization and slavery on the modern globalized economy. Students will be asked to evaluate the real value and cost of every day household products and ask themselves how do they and society define value.

Image: coffee beans drying in Panama. 

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Students take a public policy area that they are interested in and design solutions to the problem. Students will do research on the history of the topic and past solutions, create a presentation on their public policy solutions, and present to a community organization who could implement the solution. Students will be asked to grapple with complex social issues, economics, public interest, and the confines of governing systems. The goal of the public policy project is to develop their research and presentation skills but also get students interacting with different levels of government and interest groups. By the end students will understand the different means to effectuate change. 

Image: student at the climate change protest in 2021. 

Project Citizen 
11th or 12th Grade

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Past Projects

California Innocence Project 
Spring 2022

Code Red for Humanity 
Fall 2021

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10th graders held weekly calls with a partner school in Santiago, Chile. They talked about school, family, friends, what they liked to do, what COVID had been like for them, and how governments differed in approaching COVID.

 

Students at HTH put together a podcast about what it was like to learn about peers thousands of miles away from them, who grew up in very different systems, but didn't actually differ too much from themselves personally. 

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Contracorriente
Spring 2021

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