Project Citizen is a hands-on-civic education program for upper elementary, middle, and high school students designed to actively engage young people in the civic life of their community. The students identify a problem in their school or community, research the problem, propose a solution, and develop an action plan for solving the problem. The students prepare a portfolio and have the opportunity to present it to a panel of evaluators in a local and state showcase. We the People is a study of the history and foundations of the institutions of American constitutional democracy. Its goal is to promote civic competence and responsibility among the nation's elementary and secondary students. In a culminating activity students "testify" before a panel of judges in a simulated congressional hearing.