Thousands of people are affected by the lack of safety in schools across the country. Students everywhere are attending schools that are more dangerous than expected. This is a growing concern around the world, and schools need to improve or risk becoming unsafe. Whether it's building safety, drills, concussions, social or technology safety, schools must improve to reduce the risk of an incident. Project Citizen is an effort to improve our community one step at a time. The Citizen Project requires a lot of research for specific sections of our core problem. These are called tasks. Once all tasks are completed, everyone writes a document summarizing the main problem. Then, everyone makes a presentation as a group. The keys to success in Project Citizen are working hard, researching well, working as a team, and most importantly, being organized. The steps in the Citizen Project are: identify a problem in the school or community, research the problem, evaluate possible solutions, then develop public policy ideas and choose the best solution. The main goal of the Citizen Project is to improve our school/community to make it a better place. This year the hope is to make our school safer and less accident prone. In order to have a safe school, you need to know the terms to understand their importance. Safety means the condition of being protected from or unlikely to cause danger, risk or injury. Security is the state in which one is free from any danger or threat. These two terms are synonymous with well-being, protection and absence of danger. “Safety First” means “Safety Always”. said Charles M. Hayes. This shows how security must be present at all times, as you never know when an incident may occur. School S...... middle of paper ...... Kimberly. “Despite increased security, school shootings continue.” PBS.org. PBS, 1996. Web. April 12, 2014. List of school shootings in the United States. Representative Wikipedia.org, nd Web. April 12, 2014. Shooting at Pine College. Representative Wikipedia.org, nd Web. April 12, 2014. “Safety Quotes.” Quotegarden.com. Quote Garden, April 2, 2014. Web. April 12, 2014. “Re: How many school fires occur each year? » Web log comment. Chacha.com. Chacha, 2006. Web. April 12, 2014. Ribble, Mike. Digital citizenship: using technology appropriately. Representative Godaddy.com, 2014. Web. April 12, 2014. “Security.” Schoolclimate.org. National School Climate Center, 2014. Web. April 12, 2014. Staff, Edutopia. "77 Percent: Students Bullied." Web Journal Publication. Edutopia.org. Edutopia, December 2, 2005. Web. April 12, 2014. "Water Survey Site." Tornadoes, Deaths and Injuries by year Np, and Web April 12.. 2014.