Grant Brainstorming

I chose to address the driver safety among the youth and teenagers because I feel that it is not addressed enough and that young adults should be aware of as they get closer to the age where they can receive there permits/driver licenses. With this, I would like to teach and have others lecture and demonstrate on driver safety issues such as aggressive driving, little things on how important wearing a seatbelt is, and showing the kids a mock accident of what could happen. This project would qualify as service learning project because I would incorporate the use of a classroom and/or fellow Bonner leaders to come up with a plan as to allow the youth of Albany aware of driver safety issues. To link this idea to the curriculum, schools should create a class that specializes in driver safety issues that would be a mandatory class to take. It could count as a Physical Education credit that the students must take just like health is in most schools. By incorporating a driver safety education class in schools, students would be allowed to understand how serious this issue is. I think it would be best to have this class in high schools because those are the years where teenagers are beginning to take driver's ed and/or begin driving. I am not sure how diversity applies to this project because it would be given in high schools and it also depends on the school. This idea would benefit the youth and allow them to receive and give feedback to prospective drivers. Allowing high school students with this opportunity would allow them to voice there opinions on the issue. In order to have this class become mandatory in high schools, we could find organizations who would be willing to support the prospective program. The duration of this class would last one semester and the students would be required to take midterm and final exams and write a final paper regarding a particular driver safety issue.

See you guys tomorrow, have a great day!

Meghan=)