28-05-2025
Western Mass. schools participate in Massachusetts Civics Project Showcases
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – 1,000 students were chosen to take part in the Massachusetts Civics Project Showcases.
The showcases started on Tuesday in Dartmouth, and 20 schools around Western Massachusetts participated in the second day of the fair on Wednesday inside the MassMutual Center in Springfield. The room was filled with poster board presentations.
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At the fair, students share their plans to solve community issues, amongst their peers and community advisors, such as local legislators and subject-matter experts. Issues included student mental health, environmental justice, and educational equity. Some projects took students a month to plan, create, and execute.
'We decided to take action basically,' said Mileska Santiheo, a junior at Sci-Tech High School. 'So we noticed that our bathrooms don't really provide any feminine products or anything, so we got donations from teachers and nurses and we built the basket up.'
The next fair will be on Monday in Worcester. The last stop of the fair will be next week in Boston.
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