Students involved with this project offer a unique and rewarding opportunity to serve those who serve in our armed forces. They recognize their own value and contribute to our community and county.

Students continue to provide recognition for veterans and their families. They interview veterans from all wars, create videos to be put in the community library, and host community wide veteran programs.

Students are trained in interview techniques and production though a continuing partnership with Texas Tech and McMurry Universities. They created packets with questions for veterans and their families to answer. They contact them, and set up times to tape interviews, and scan and save their pictures.

Once each student has sufficient information, they design a tri-fold board and create scrapbook pages.

Today, and for years to come, the very heart and soul of the community comes to life when students honor Real History~Real Heroes during the annual Dare To Care Rally. This years theme for the rally is Sprit of Liberty.

Program Goals:
1) Knowledge is the essential element incorporating the TEKS
2) Active student participation in civic affairs
3) 20 hours community service per student
4) Project Completion

TIGHT Projects include:
1) Veterans Brick Memorial
2) Environmental Science: recycling and compostion
3) Life Skills: Campus Beautification
4) FCCLA: veterans cookbooks and story books
5) Veteran Recognition: portrait designs and greeting cards
6) Career Investigations
7) SHARE: interacting with Wallace Senior Citizen Center
8) RESPECT: interaction with Kristi Lee Nursing Home
9) Social Studies: National History Day
10) Stars: veteran packets, interviews, and memory boards
11) TAKS: remediation computer keyboarding; building computers, robotics, and power pionts

This CHESP service-learning program evolves as Higher Education Partners, Community Partners, and local governing bodies collaborate with Colorado ISD. Developing and adapting activities based on students' interests and abilities, these needs or problems are identified in the local community, using the STARS model, and as required for TAKS testing.

R2H2-History In Motion expands Real History~Real Heroes through the:
1) cultural study of Mitchell County Veterans and their military experiences
2) heritage and history of people, events, civics, politics, and economics in Colorado City, Texas

Technology, through music and media, will be awakened, as bridges are built and voids are filled between generations and will enable students to:
1) utilize thinking skills
2) review for TAKS test
3) impact others by use of government documents
4) compare local history to national history, using Texas Essential Knowledge Skills (TEKS)
5) connect everyday experiences and turn them into real world career opportunities
6) help improve the quality of the community
7) effectively communicate skills to articulate multiple ideas
8) foster positive attitudes regarding the value of lifelong citizenship
9) serve for the common good by completing twenty hours of community service each semester

Media Technology
Students :
1) make public announcements
2) produce and develop weekly reports and videos
3) digitally record and archive community history
4) compose, organize, and revise various types of texts
5) create a digital library on campus
6) interpret important events and compare ideas and views
7) draw poster illustrations
8) identify stories for fiction, non-fiction, porpaganda, opinion, and fact

Music Technology
Students:
1) are introduced to music technology
2) produce original music on CD's that go along with textbooks to facilitate studies of the TEKS
3) collect, organize, compose, and maintain a portfolio of written music