The student’s project started when the class began their community inventory and started taking notes on what they saw near their school. They found a lot of problems in the community. Diving even deeper into the process, the class chose to work on graffiti near their school.
Investigating policy and practice, the class realized they would need to change community practices because graffiti is against the law, but the law is not being followed. To help them identify ways to decrease graffiti students met a local expert from Denver Partners Against Graffiti.
From there, the class made a list of options for possibilities for their project. They decided to try to educate people about how to prevent graffiti and tagging. To do this, the class made posters, an interactive game and a brochure for the Youth Summit. The brochure educated students and the community about the Denver Partners Against Graffiti program and what a valuable resource it is. Mr. Jones’ class thought they did well teaching other students how to prevent graffiti in their communities at the Summit!