What do we mean by a project?
Project programs aim to meet the needs and interests of teenagers, or simply to pursue certain pursuits over a longer period of time, where active participation / design is required.
So it's all about:
- Needs and interests of teens
- Continuously working towards a goal
- Active co-planning and collaboration by teens to the greatest extent possible
Semi-annual to annual projects
Film
- Filmed race
- Youth book
- Daily news
- Film clip
- Film story/Bible verse/proverb
- Tracking nature
- Hidden Camera
- "Portraits" (A Day of Mrs. .../Mr. ...)
- Commercials
- Writing your own story/screenplay
- Movie hits (watch movies, understand message, evaluate, classify, do movie review)
Theater
- Youth book
- Rehearse and perform Punch and Judy show (proceeds for mission)
- Staff puppet show
- Shadow theatre
- Marionette Theatre
- Blacklight theatre
- Musical, including stage decoration, music, choreography etc. (performance in village, retirement home, community, on the lake etc.)
- Theatre incl. stage decoration, dresses etc.
- Speech motets
- Sketches
- Execute parables
- Entertainment evening/quiz evening
- Cabaret
Music / song / dance
- Build instruments
- Start a band
- Choir (performing for evangelistic causes)
- Dance group (creative, jazz, folk, expressive dance)
Photo
- Photography (including shooting techniques and development)
- Photo story/photo image story
- Publish a book
- Reportage
- Develop and enlarge photos yourself
Sports
- Learn about new sports
- Night tournament
- Organize a sports tournament
- Beach volleyball tournament
- River exploration by inflatable boat, raft, canoe (attention to safety!)
- Cave expedition (Attention: use guide)
- Organize cross-country race
- Streetball tournament
- Unihockey scrum tournament
- Swiss Action (as many means of transportation as possible in as interesting places as possible, e.g. raft, horseback riding, roller skates, pedal scooters, grass skiing) as a camp through Switzerland
- Board games
Circus
- Design of program points, technology, dresses, tent setup, music, announcements, advertising
Festivals / open occasions
- Beach party
- Teen Evangelism Days
- Mega-fest for teens
- Movie Weeks
- Black and White Party
- Lords party/Lords meeting
Miscellaneous
- "Pile-dwelling village": building a village in the marsh
- Bazaar
- Bible Panorama
- Inventions - Discoveries
- Gelateria
- Design cookbook, sell it, try it
- Organize concert (small project with only 10 teens)
- Project week in the village (camp)
- Build skateboard track (attention: permit)
- Build solar mobile - advertising for teen group
- Provide social outreach: Clean windows(shutters), shop, visit the sick, creek bed cleanup, forest cleanup, visit children's hospital, babysit children during Advent, car wash outreach
- Expand TC room
- Create teen newspaper
- Unihockey practice
- Four Seasons Project
- Workshop project: processing different materials like: Wood, metal, clay, stone, etc.
- Organize weekend for other teens: Finding house, organizing food etc.
- Sponsored run
- Restyle old bike, with disc wheel as TC advertisement
- Graffitti
"Short-term" projects
- Organize a swim meet
- BMX race
- Chilbie outreach/market outreach
- Children's festival (play festival)
- Cooking in the forest
- Nature project/environmental protection e.g. create biotope, feeding station, forest clean-up
- Project worship
- Planning and carrying out a neighbourhood festival
- Soapbox race
- T-shirt printing
- Environmental beautification: paint bare street underpass
- Unihockey tournament
- Forest Day Week
- Christmas tree recycling
- Circus (camp)
- Velo riding dinner
- Organize hike/outing
- Organize a party
Source reference:
Content: Teenie Working Group, Margrit Hugentobler, BESJ
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