High school project idea · Law, Policy & Society
Create a transparent way to judge whether a policy proposal works for young people, not just whether it sounds good.
Develop and apply a balanced scorecard to several policies affecting youth while making values, evidence, and uncertainty visible.
Why this project matters
Develop and apply a balanced scorecard to several policies affecting youth while making values, evidence, and uncertainty visible. This project feels different from a school assignment because the student serves young people, families, advocates, and decision makers comparing proposals, creates something visible, tests it honestly, responds to feedback, and explains the decisions behind the final result.
What you will create
Use these deliverables as milestones for Build a Youth Policy Scorecard. Adapt the details to your interests, available time, and real-world opportunities.
Research youth-defined outcomes, effectiveness, equity, rights, cost, feasibility, implementation, evidence quality, unintended effects, and weighting. Document the needs, constraints, credible sources, and perspectives of young people, families, advocates, and decision makers comparing proposals.
Turn the evidence into a focused plan for the youth policy scorecard and comparative report, including success criteria, ethical boundaries, scope, and a realistic path to completion.
Create the first complete version of the youth policy scorecard and comparative report. Include a youth needs brief, scoring criteria, weighting rationale, source protocol, scored policy set, sensitivity analysis, and recommendations.
facilitate a scoring session with youth and adult reviewers, compare disagreements, and test how different weights change rankings Record what happened, what failed, what users or reviewers said, and which changes you made.
Publish the final youth policy scorecard and comparative report with a portfolio-ready case study showing the challenge, evidence, process, revisions, results, limits, and next version.
Make the work stronger
For Build a Youth Policy Scorecard, use these checkpoints to protect the quality of the work without turning the project into a performance for admissions.
Skills you can build
College application value
Can demonstrate initiative, curiosity, reflection, and growth through the student’s choices, response to setbacks, work with young people, families, advocates, and decision makers comparing proposals, and development of Evaluation Frameworks, Policy Research, and Youth Voice.
The goal of Build a Youth Policy Scorecard is not to manufacture an impressive activity. Do real work, keep evidence of the process, and reflect honestly on what changed.
Related college majors
Use Build a Youth Policy Scorecard as a clue, then open a related major guide to compare coursework, career directions, reality checks, and other ways to test the field.
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Build a Youth Policy Scorecard is an original Compass educational starting point designed around real work, visible evidence, feedback, and reflection. It is not an admissions guarantee.