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Akiing "On The Land or The Earth" -
Ojibwe (Puckered Up or Crane Clan)
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Madison, Wisconsin (ICC) 8-09
 A local Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe School 5th grade citizenship project represented Wisconsin at the Project Citizen National Showcase Hearing in Philadelphia during July.
The 5th grade project "Limiting Buses Helps Environment,” created by Arianna Crone, Jaime Vega, Joseph DeNasha, and Robyn Trepania had been selected as the first place rating at a hearing showcase in Madison and was evaluated along with 49 other citizenship projects.
Wisconsin State Senator Robert Jauch was invited to attend the
Project Citizen National Showcase in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as an
evaluator in conjunction with the National Conference of State
Legislators Legislative Summit.
The LCO project earned an “Exceptional” rating at the National
Showcase and the project be displayed at the National Competition in
Miami, Florida later this year.
The students have also been
invited to present their project this October in Milwaukee at the
National Indian Education Association 40th Annual Convention.
Project
Citizen is an international civic education program for middle school
to post-secondary students sponsored by the Center for Civic
Education. Participating student groups identify problems within their
community and work together to decide on one specific issue to solve.
They then conduct research on the history of the issue, explore public
policy solutions, and finally identify an active solution to the
problem they have chosen to solve. The project culminates in poster
board presentations at public hearing showcases in front of civic
leaders.
The Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe School students
recognized an issue affecting their local and global community:
pollution and the over use of fossil fuels. They agreed to find a way
to reduce the money spent by their community on fuel and decrease the
emission of harmful greenhouse gasses.
"Though I didn't
officially score this project, I reviewed every portfolio and
considered it to be one of the highest quality projects on display,”
Senator Jauch said.
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