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Amy J.

Costa Rica

I am a former teacher that still loves interacting with students of all ages. I love exercise and talking to people. My goals are to add value to my communities, enjoy nature, to travel and learn.

Amy J.

Costa Rica

Amy Spittler Shaffer

Wonderment HQ

Obsessed with the intelligence of relationships. Creative Director at The Wonderment Cooperative.

Amy Spittler Shaffer

Wonderment HQ

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Recycling Initiative

La Paz Newspaper

La Paz Newspaper

Model United Nations!

TropiCycle

My CAS project for 2022/2023 is based on organizing groups to make community beach cleanups to maintain all the beaches nice and clean. After doing the beach cleanups, I will ...

CAS PROMOTION

I plan to create a go fund me for CAS projects, which I will promote with social media such as Tik Tok and Instagram. I will start this project by myself however I will interv...

Copa Costa de Oro

Un torneo de fútbol inter-escolar que va a envolver a los colegios de la zona en divisiones menores (13-18) en el que el propósito y meta final que es ayudar y mejorar la es...

Canopy Therapy

My ideas for this project are collaborating with Carolina and my family’s canopy business and creating a workshop where troubled or stressed teens from La Paz can go to ...

Canopy Therapy

My ideas for this project are collaborating with Shana and her family’s canopy business and creating a workshop where troubled or stressed teens from la paz can go to a ...

THE ZEN GARDEN

Let’s Provide a space for students to relieve their stress! The Zen Garden is established to help students with stress have a safe area where they can come to and take a bre...

Canopy Therapy

Shana and Carolina's project which aims to create a space where students in La Paz who are stressed can come and relax and think about something else while doing an activity!

CAS fund

CAS and Anchor projects are a great part of the La Paz Community because they focus on helping those in need. Families, students, environments, animal life and more. However,...

La Paz amphitheater

this is the la paz amphitheater project

Snack Help

students are provided with healthy foods such as peanuts/peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, and other snacks like plantains/ empanadas/ pringles and cookies. The food is stor...

Yearbook

La Paz Bank

The La Paz Bank was formed because there was a need for funding for anchor projects or CAS projects at the school level. The Bank manages distribution of donations to the Anch...

Daniel’s CAS Experience

Well Behavied Shelter Dogs

This project will try to help dogs find homes by teaching them basic house manners, therefore allowing people to adopt them without needing to learn to train them. I will be t...

÷ and Conquer (Math Tutoring)

My goal for this project is to not only create a space to give extra math lessons but a space where people can work on their math homework and receive help when they have ques...

Yearbook

Organize and manage my school CAS night event where students have the opportunity to share with the community their project purpose, find volunteers and raise funds from inter...

Yearbook/CAS night

Organize the CAS night event and effectively engage the community in learning about CAS and Anchor projects, while donating to the projects. Raise a successful amount of money...

Spread & Support Art cane

Our CAS project seeks to support Elevate Movement Studio, a big representative of the art in our community. In the Guanacaste area there aren’t many spaces for dancers t...

Saving Sailing

When we found out that there was not an affordable place to learn how to sail and better experience the ocean we thought that as experienced water people we could help out com...

Tamarindo Tourism Project

About The Project: The goal of this site is to help the economy of Tamarindo by bringing more attention to local businesses while at the same time providing travelers with the...

BabySitting Güilas

A platform where parents of young La Paz students can hire high school La Paz students to babysit their children. Una plataforma donde los padres de jóvenes estudiantes de La...

Ib lounge

Sammy’s CAS project

A platform where parents of young La Paz students can hire high school La Paz student to babysit their children.

Spread & Support Art

Our CAS project seeks to support Elevate Movement Studio, a big representative of the art in our community. In the Guanacaste area there aren’t many spaces for dancers t...

Anne CAS

Meet the La Paz CAS project leaders

Every year at La Paz, a unique and powerful group of young student leaders get to work finding the way they feel personally inspired to make a difference and create new possib...

Helping La paz and Tamarindo soccer team

ayudar a tamarindo

Angelina’s CAS project

The purpose of this project is to contribute along with our school operations team to create a more comfortable, clean area for extracurricular academic activities that involv...

Cuco’s CAS Experience

im just going with the flow.

Always Motivated Movement

What I want is for you to stay motivated in life, and to inform each person that even if they’re struggling in life, anyone has the potential to overcome it through hard...

Isas CAS project

Help others

Small Acts, Big Changes

To help a refugee family achieve self-sufficiency by contributing to their immediate needs (food, clothing, school uniforms) while working to meet their long-term needs (secur...

E- Small Acts, Big Changes

To help a refugee family achieve self-sufficiency by contributing to their immediate needs (food, clothing, school uniforms) while working to meet their long-term needs (secur...

Teaching the Vulnerable

AR in our community

Stefano CAS Project

I would like to create a project where I make artificial reefs. Artificial reefs are not very hard to create, they just have to be created with knowledge and patience. This is...

The Board Room

I am going to achieve this project by bringing new ideas, and engaging the community. I will market this project through social media, in order to get more people from the com...

SafeGuanaTaxi

We aim to create a minimalist website that creates efficient and accurate recommendations of taxis. the taxis on the website range and will take you from one town to another u...

CAS Project: Dodgeball Tournament

I am hoping for this project to include and involve as many people to come and play this very interactive and fun sport by the name of dodgeball. The world isn’t a reall...

Costa De Oro

My project opportunity taking the soccer tournamentsports the local schools. Is a great oppurtunity for the community to build sport relationships after the pandemic. Is aslo ...

Cas Project

Flamingo Basketball Clinics

FBC is designed to teach kids of all ages how to play the game with a team-first attitude and competitive edge in a fun, energetic basketball environment. We are very proud th...

Soccer Cup

Supporting the arts

Work closely with the local dance studio ELEVATE to put on a production that raises awareness of specific issues around the world. Create a period of time where each one of us...

Kenya CAS project

coral farm cas project

This project aims to plant 5,00 corals in future years, helping reef ecosystems, local communities and fighting coral bleaching events. Concept development and planing is our ...

Investment Club (IC)

Photography

I want to be able to take photos of nature using the right amount of ISO, aperture and speed shutter. I want them to look professional.

Photography-LEEP

Sprinkled by Grace

Project Vanilla is based on creating my own unique, perfectly moist vanilla cake. My objectives for this project are: 1. To learn and read about developing recipes, more speci...

Exploring Movement

In this project I hope to create a dance video fully choreographed, filmed and edited by me with the help of my mentor and some friends.

Copper Oxidation Project

today I am talking about oxidation specifically about copper. When copper is exposed to oxygen it forms a layer of copper oxide or the patina, its that green ish blue ish colo...

10th Grade Writing Leep Project – Jojo

New stylish uniforms

The only options for girls uniform shorts and skirts are too tight, too loose, unflattering, itchy and they rip easily. I want to make them more comfortable and stylish with b...

Flamingo basketball Club

My goal is to create a basketball team for younger kids in my community. I am looking to create an enjoyable and worthwhile experience for young kids while also teaching them ...

leep project

sell home made hot sause by Stefano Robert

Dogs & Love

We want you to trust that we will be careful with your dogs

LOOK Through

Including a hyped up video that will motivate you to go outside and kill an athletic category (to play before or during your workout), an enhanced dessert that is made to give...

Skate Ramp-LEEP

Comida Para Compartir

My project consists of creating and maintaining a garden where I can grow fresh produce for my community. I will build a stand where I can put out the produce for anyone who i...

Student Goverment 2020-2021

In this project I hope to be the voice of the students within my school and to make this year online more fun, more effective and more motivating.

Historical Costume

My goal is to sew an 18th century themed dress similar to the one in the photo and an early 19th century shift to go along with it. I plan on getting help from one of our frie...

Comminity and Home Ecological Garden Project

cuco’s leep experience

Food Bank-LEEP

Im hoping to be able to help people in need. I signed up to volunteer at the food bank with my mom and we go help out at a food drive every Thursday and pass out boxes with pr...

What cool things are you doing?

I have been given the freedom from my school to do any project I wanted to. So my dad and I are working on building a go kart that can be driven where I live. Right now I am l...

Building a Go Kart

This project is a very good way for me to learn executive function skills and it will be a really fun way to spend quality time with my dad. It will help me learn practical sk...

Coastal Help

With this project I hope to achieve the goal to keep the beaches of my community clean, to stop the contamination of our waters and the endangerment of many species.

santa rosa recreational park

I’m a person that believes that improvement is on evaluating your past actions or invent, keeping the positive aspects and looking a solution to what could have to be be...

Board Room

The “Board Room” project is a nonprofit surf and skate rental shop that aims to help the youth within my community to become more active and have easier access to surfboar...

BOSTON 2021

Let’s Grow

My end goal with this project is to help community members have a reliable and healthy food source. I believe that growing a garden is very beneficial in several ways. Such as...

Computers for you

I’m hoping to achieve a brighter future for the kids in Costa Rica since computers and technology are starting to take over and are mostly the main way of education. I&#...

Donaciones con Amor-Playa Brasilito

The Brasilito Community has one of the most poverty seen in our coast area. This families have not had to the opportunity to succeed with the help of the Municipalidad de Sant...

Donaciones con Amor- Playa Brasilito

For our CAS Project this year we will focus on helping the community of Brasilito. Brasilito is a community that is very close to our school, where there is a high poverty rat...

Clothing by Sean

Surfing Together

To create a surf club to bring the community together and teach children to surf. To offer them a space to come and have fun and enjoy themselves. This club would also teach k...

The #sin^2(x) + cos^2(x) Math Club

My project consists of creating a space where high school students are able to work on math, gaining new abilities and confidence around math. I offer this class once a week a...

Paint For Skate

Mission Statement: Working on supplying kids with costume materials and involving them in the practice of skateboarding.

Engaging Youth Through Service!

This project is about tracking the ups and downs of starting a project in the community. My project is all about having teenagers learn to help other students in the community...

One Act

My goal with project is to create a theater and writing community within my school. I aim to organize, direct, perform plays and write, teach, and encourage student actors an...

Cultural exchange through travelling

Co ed Volleyball team

My Idea for my CAS project is to form a La Paz co ed volleyball team. The way this would work is girls and boys would go to practice together and then for games the girls team...

Model United Nations

We created a video with pictures of our Global Politics group representing La Paz in San Jose and how we applied our knowledge in the MUN. How well informed are you about glob...

MUN La Paz

We created a video with pictures of our global politics group representing La Paz in San Jose and how we apply our knowledge in a MUN.

Empowering Women

This is a path video for my CAS project which provides IUDs to women in poverty.

Small Action To Save The World

Pollution is destroying the oceans and the world, if we don't start doing something about it, the whole world will be in danger. There is many things that people could do to s...

Woodworks

How does your passion affect your daily life? And how can you use that to help your community?

GRL PWR

This Path is about female empowerment, the ways in which celebrities and even students empower women day by day. After all, empowered women, empower women.

¿Está la juventud en tu comunidad tomando acción?

Where?

We all are searching for our place in the world. It’s hard to find where we each fit, and those who find their place are extremely lucky!

Compost Shed!

We are looking for ways to help our community through strategies helping to lower our carbon footprint. This path takes you on a journey through how we have failed, some reaso...

Do you consider yourself an environmentalist?

Do you consider yourself an environmentalist? Lots of people do, but normally they are doing too little for the earth. So think about it, maybe you can do more! 🙂

What do you eat?

Due to my interest in nutrition it lead me to be informed about the diabetes crisis in Costa Rica, for my CAS project I wanted to promote change through education. I recognize...

Making a change

We want to demonstrate the power of change and how it can create happiness for members of our community.

What does the power of choice look like to you?

As you watch the video, consider what the power of choice really means to you. I wonder if you think it’s as important to you as it is to me?

FASHION = SCHOLARSHIPS

This is the path of my current CAS project (and wonderment project) FASHION FOR SCHOLARSHIPS, where I am organizing a fashion show with self-designed outfits to collect funds ...

The Future of Food

I want to change people’s perspective on the farming industry, to shine light on the fact that modern farming is not sustainable. Do you know where your food comes from?...

Your Dream

This path has the intention to portray what a DREAM is for kids, and start a conversation of what this term means for us, whether it is a short or long-term goal, something yo...

Empower Women

I hope to unite people who are passionate about empowering women in their community and the world.

How can you help Nature?

The objective of this path is to prompt people to think about what small actions they can do to help nature that’s specific to their life. With Global Warming and the Am...

Pawfect Companions

Dag from Costa Rica started a project to create the first dog park park in town. But first he wanted to find out how well we all know our dogs? While we’re all stuck at ...

OPPORTUNITIES

For Peace

My path is designed to make you think about how you can be an ambassador of peace in your daily life, and how you can help create ripples that will build peace, communication,...

Planet = Home

Nature is life, so let’s take care of it!

La Paz Sports Network

My project will focus on promoting our student athletes and elevate community interest in the sports program. It will consist of a sports channel that covers the sports at La ...

Students Sponsoring Students

Students Sponsoring Students is an organization based in La Paz Community School in Flamingo, Guanacaste, Costa Rica. We hold weekly meetings on Tuesdays and Thursdays to coll...

Green Impact

Our team is planning to meet younger grades to teach them about hydroponics, a form of planting food that doesn’t need soil, and that only requires water. Also, we plan ...

La Paz 2021 Model United Nations

This project consist of making a Model United Nation with the people that are part of our community. We will be discussing issues that are affecting our society, and making th...

YOUTH TAKING ACTION

We are a small non-profit organization focused on the environment, animals and the community. Our main goal is to create an impact in those 3 areas that we mentioned before si...

Ocean Is Not A Dump

Our team is going to work in several communities in the province of Guanacaste to raise awareness and act against ocean pollution. We will do this by organizing clean-ups, pla...

Cuidemonos

Education for Brighter Futures

My CAS project consists of volunteering weekly at Abriendo Mentes as a Youth Programming Assistant. This means that I help in the English and Computer classes during the after...

Basketball

My project will consist of creating several three on three basketball tournaments to raise funds for local basketball related activities. My project will cover the expenses fo...

Terraza Youth Center

Terraza’s mission is to create a safe space where teenagers from all backgrounds and experiences can belong. We want to create opportunities, support each other, give ba...

The Artificery

This project will be the creation of a wood workshop for La Paz. I am hoping to achieve a greater passion within the La Paz Community for working with wood. To do this I am go...

Planet B

This is a project, where we, the 8th graders at La Paz Community School, are trying to educate the community of the importance and impact of bees on our world. Our goal is to ...

CEPIA IUD PROJECT

Through this project I hope to empower women in relation to thier sexual rights. I plan on doing this through CEPIA events that provide underprivileged women with IUDs, as wel...

Huevos Con Amor

Avellanas Mangrove Restoration Project

The Purpose of this project is to help the Avellanas Mangrove biome be able to grow and sustain itself, after being damaged in a natural catastrophe years ago. But that is not...

Math Addict

La Paz Model United Nations

My goal is to create a Model United Nations conference at La Paz Community School that will teach students valuable life skills, foreign policy, and above all will be an absol...

IUD PROJECT

This project focuses on the importance of the health of women, specifically women in need. We will provide a safe space for people to come and voice their concerns, questions ...

Snack Shack La Paz

We seek to create a professional environment where our community is our main priority. We want our customers to have a satisfactory experience by making them feel welcome. We ...

Modern Gardening Center La Paz

Hello! My name is Joan Alvarado I am 17 years old and I am from Costa Rica. This project idea came from a visit we did to Eath University in Limon (one of the seven provinces)...

Cepia Christmas Party

My project is an annual Christmas party that collects and distributes adequate Christmas gifts for 600 underprivileged kids in my community. We raise money and ask for gift d...

Ingenious Yearbook Committee

This project consists of a group of students that efficiently create a yearbook filled with memories. With this, it will provide all students a space to look back to and remem...

Cepia-Boston Exhange Project

This project consists in providing two Cepia students of low resources, the opportunity to travel to Boston, Massachusetts, where they will enjoy many activities, get to exper...

Hydro Nature

It all started with my group in science class. We made aquaponics and have learned many things but also had some failures in the process. What we decided on doing is making ta...

Terraza Youth Center

Exposing the diverse youth of Costa Rica by offering a global cultural experience through activities , meaningful engagements and games that will enrich and diversify their mi...

DOG BARK

Terraza Youth Center

The Terraza Youth Center aims at exposing the youth of Costa Rica by offering cultural experiences through activities, meaningful engagements and games that will enrich the di...

Fashion for Scholarships

Matapalo Fertilizer Shed

Tackling Single-use Plastic

Proyecto Brasilito

-Our goal in this project is to help the people struggling in Brasilito through many ways so that we can create a big positive difference in our community. -Nuestra meta en es...

Proyecto Potrero

Proyecto Potrero first took shape as three family members sat together on a bench during a rainy day in Costa Rica. Noticing the accumulation of mud and water on the side of t...

Ecobrick Trashformation

In Costa Rica, Conrad and Cloe re-purposed garbage into ecobricks to make a bodega to share surfboards with kids in their community. Can you transform trash into something use...

Personal Pizza

Tell us (or even better take a picture and show us!) what toppings you would choose. Go all out!

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