Students at the International School of America follow a strongly principled profile that leads them to develop skills that allow them to excel after high school, such as academic preparation . During our four years at ISA, we develop skills such as the ability to "cultivate rigorous habits of mind such as intellectual curiosity, a desire for lifelong learning, critical thinking and the effective organization of their learning efforts. I believe the best representation of this has been the multi-faceted Alabama Media Project. The Alabama Media Project was an electronically organized presentation demonstrating the importance of the historic civil rights social movement that we learned about on the Alabama Civil Rights trip. It included important people of the time, social groups and important events that shaped the world we live in today. The project was also complemented by group-led research, a specific historical injustice in the 1960s, and a modern look at the injustice needed to be brought with our solution. Our group chose what we believed to be the most crippling injustice: legal racial segregation in schools. Although racial segregation is today outlawed and deemed unconstitutional, we view it as similar to school segregation based on socioeconomic status. This means that low-income areas have less money to fund the local public school, which would give “at-risk” students less chance of succeeding than neighboring affluent schools. This was particularly relevant because minorities are more likely to be from lower socioeconomic strata. We organized the information on a Glogster, which is an interactive bulletin board capable of playing multimedia files such as sound clips or videos. We included interviews with ...... middle of paper ...... a leader of a group, which I had never had to do before this assignment. The “role” of group leader is not a chosen role but a role that one earns when one demonstrates the determination to get things done and to do them very well. I often showed initiative when our group was at a standstill and I like to think that I really helped them take ownership of our topic and got them excited about creating a real answer. I learned that doing everything in advance never means you're done, just that you have more time to improve things, because pushing your limits will get you where you want to be. The Alabama Project helped me realize that intellectual curiosity should always lead you to learn new things about world history and the events that led to the present, and more importantly to learn more about the person you are are and who you want to become..