Project Challenge

Project Challenge is a program of The Memphis Challenge, Inc., piloted with 9th graders at Booker T. Washington High School in Memphis, TN.

Project Challenge seeks to create a paradigm shift in the disparities that exist between at-risk students of color and replace it with one of achievement through peer support and other service learning techniques.  Project Challenge provides a venue for our students, Memphis Challengers, to take the helm in providing a service to another group of students, encouraging them to share the wealth of what they have been privileged to receive.

•   Project Challenge consist of a four-phase operational program strategy
• Phase 1 - Assessment
• Phase 2 - Coaching
• Phase 3 - Training
• Phase 4 - Camp Challenge
• Each student will participate in the first 3 phases of the program
• Students who have successfully mastered the program’s objectives will be selected to attend Camp Challenge
• The program spans a nine-month period concurrent with academic school year
• Allots a standard method of evaluation at the end of each six-week reporting period
• Points of evaluation will be the students’ academic achievement, professional development, and interpersonal skills