"Students dive into research"

"By the time Options High School junior Calvin Smith has to do his culminating project next year to graduate, he’ll be a pro at large-scale research projects.

As part of a reinvention of the alternative high school’s curriculum, students were required this year to complete four self-designed in-depth research projects, similar to the culminating project.

But instead of seeing it as a chore or dreading it, Smith and other students have embraced the projects over the course of the year."

URL: http://www.bellinghamherald.com/102/story/107704.html