As a project, young people work together as a class or extracurricular group to identify and study a public policy issue. In an interactive, cooperative process, the class is divided into four teams. Each team undertakes specific tasks related to the policy issue. The final product is a portfolio displaying each group's work. Classes may enter their portfolios in a local competition with other classes.
Winners advance to annual state and national competitions.
Project Citizen is administered nationally by the Center for Civic Education in cooperation with the National Conference of State Legislatures, a bipartisan organization dedicated to serving the lawmakers and staffs of the nation's 50 states and its commonwealths and territories.