Some things are done for their own sake. Doing them makes life fuller. Some things are done for extrinsic reasons, to accomplish something else, to attain some sort of reward. We are interested in creating a project capable of producing intrinsic motivation, or Flow. Flow is a state characterized by full concentration and involvement in which one's goal is simply to have the experience.
Flow is a function of the intersection between challenge and skills.
It is an active not a passive state. It is important that adolescents develop a political identity early. Those who leave high school with a fairly well developed sense of where they stand politically are more politically engaged throughout their lives than are those who find politics later. Studies of adults suggest that such core political concepts as democrat, republican, liberal, and conservative, are vital to organizing political discussion. Level of knowledge also matters in so far as it produces a feeling that one can master politics.