WRITE AND SUBMIT YOUR PROPOSAL

Your proposal must include the following:

  1. Project goals & objectives
  2. An essential question that you will be exploring
  3. A rationale for the experience you have chosen (full internship, partial internship or extended independent study)
  4. A detailed schedule (including an accounting of your time) of what you will be doing on a daily basis
  5. An explanation of how these activities will relate to your goals & objectives
  6. A description of your sponsor’s role in your experience
  7. A consideration of AP exam schedule along with other legal absences


Other important details:

  1. You cannot start Senior Options without an approved written proposal.
  2. Your proposal is a contract between you, your sponsor, your mentor, and your parents that describes in detail what you will do during Senior Options.
  3. You will be writing your proposal on line. Access and directions will be e-mailed to you only after you have successfully registered your Sponsor and submitted your signed Sponsor Registration form as previously directed.
  4. Your proposal will not be read nor approved without the Proposal Contract Signature form first being completed and delivered to the YELLOW BOX in the SENIOR OPTIONS OFFICE, (165, the Cafeteria Commons).
  5. A COMPLETED PROPOSAL AND SIGNED SIGNATURE FORM IS DUE ON MARCH 28TH, 2008 FOR ALL THREE TYPES OF PROJECTS – Internship, Partial Internship and Extended Independent Study.
  6. If you are proposing an Extended Independent Study, you must schedule a meeting for April 3rd, 2008 starting at 2:00 PM with a panel of members of the Senior Options Committee. Schedule your appointment using the sign-up sheet available in the Senior Options Office.
  7. The Senior Options Steering Committee will review your proposal only if your signature sheet has been handed in.
  8. You will be notified whether your proposal has passed, was rejected, or needs revision, on or about April 4th, 2008. If not passed, you have until April 11th to resubmit.