Service
State Service Project
In February 2023, Project: Connection was approved as the NMASC Community Service focus through state conference 2026. School councils are encouraged to research and come up with their own project(s) that focus on making connections with self, school, and community.
Suggestions for Making Connections
(the projects listed below are just suggestions/ideas; your council is not limited to what is listed and many of the categories overlap)
Connect with Yourself
Project Ideas for Self-Reflection through:
- Journaling
- Vision Board
- Goal Setting
- Meditation
- Mindfulness – Yoga, read spiritual or well-being books/articles
- Self-Care
- Affirmations
- Spirituality
Connect with Your School
- Encourage participation – be creative
- Talk to who you don’t know
- Reach out
- Establish a lunch tutoring group
Social Well-Being Activities:
- Gun violence/gun control
- Bullying
- Homelessness
- Human/sex trafficking
Project Ideas in your school community:
- School activities/athletic fairs; encourage every student to be involved in at least one school activity
- Awareness drives
- Build connections and communication through a monthly meeting to gain input from the student body on a variety of concerns or topics.
- Talk about it. Be a supportive friend. Listen to people and never judge.
- Share your story
- Spread kindness in words and action
Connect with Your Community
Project Ideas in your Community:
- Connect with First Responders – Medical Personnel
- Nursing Homes/Elder Care
- Elected Officials
- Environmental
- Homeless Population
- Senior “Silver” Citizens
2023 NMASC Project of the Year Entries
The following projects were submitted at the 2023 NMASC State Conference. Click/tap a category title to see the submissions.
Citizenship
Middle School
- Harrison Middle School: "Inaugural NM Middle School Mock Trial" Flyer | Presentation
- James Monroe Middle School: "Rockstar Student of the Month(s)" :: Flyer | Presentation
High School
- Artesia High School: "Brighter Smiles Toy Drive" :: Flyer | Presentation
- Atrisco Heritage Academy: "Jaguar Blvd" :: Flyer | Presentation
- Aztec High School: "SOAR" :: Flyer | Presentation
- Bernalillo High School: "3rd Annual Toy Drive" :: Flyer | Presentation
- Deming High School: "Junior Stuco Story" :: Flyer | Presentation
- Dulce High School: "Warrior of Warriors" :: Flyer | Presentation
- Early College Academy: "Project ECA" :: Presentation
- Estancia Valley Classical Academy: "Veterans Day Breakfast" :: Flyer | Presentation
- Los Alamos High School: "Creating Community Creating Good Citizens" :: Flyer | Presentation
- Los Lunas High School: "Tigers Helping Tarpons" :: Flyer | Presentation
- Rio Rancho High School: "The Big Event" :: Flyer | Presentation
- Volcano Vista High School: "Winter Clothing Drive" :: Flyer | Presentation
Community Service
Middle School
- Camino Real Middle School: "We Would Walk a MILLION Miles" :: Flyer | Presentation
- Harrison Middle School: "Community Food Boxes" :: Flyer | Presentation
- J. Paul Taylor Academy: "Helping Girls and Women" :: Presentation
- New Mexico International School: "Student-Led Community Service Expo" :: Flyer 1 | Flyer 2 | Presentation
High School
- Albuquerque High School: "Movie Night" :: Flyer | Presentation
- Arrowhead Park Early College High School: "Trunk or Treat" :: Flyer | Presentation
- Bloomfield High School: "2nd Annual Pre-K and Kindergarten Halloween Carnival" :: Flyer | Presentation
- Capital High School: "We Go Up in Order to Give Back" :: Flyer | Presentation
- Cibola High School: "Seed2Need" :: Flyer | Presentation
- Cleveland High School: "Lighting Up the Holidays" :: Flyer | Presentation
- Del Norte High School: "Trunk or Treat" :: Flyer | Presentation
- East Mountain High School: "First Responders Breakfast" :: Flyer | Presentation
- Española Valley High School: "Compassion Through Actions" :: Flyer | Presentation
- Hobbs High School: "Canned Food Drive & Food Distribution" :: Flyer | Presentation
- Legacy Academy: "Wrapped in Love" :: Flyer | Presentation
- Los Lunas High School: "March Madness" :: Flyer | Presentation
- Lovington High School: "Be a Treat Trunk or Treat" :: Presentation
- Organ Mountain High School: "Community Service at Monte Vista Elementary School" :: Flyer | Presentation
- Portales High School: "Happy & Healthy Holiday Season" :: Flyer | Presentation
- Rio Grande High School: "Journey of Hope" :: Flyer | Presentation
- Ruidoso High School: "Keeping Ruidoso Beautiful" :: Flyer | Presentation
- Sandia High School: "Trick or Treat for Cans" :: Flyer | Presentation
- St. Pius X High School: "Packing Day!" :: Flyer | Presentation
Environmental Awareness
Middle School
- Los Alamos Middle School: "Recycling Competition" :: Flyer | Presentation
High School
- Bernalillo High School: "Living Green" :: Flyer | Presentation
- Clovis High School: "Let's Love Our Zoo!" :: Flyer | Presentation
- Farmington High School: "Campus Clean-Up" :: Flyer | Presentation
- La Cueva High School: "What Goes Where Bears" :: Flyer | Presentation
- Nex+Gen Academy High School: "School Outdoor Clean-Up" :: Flyer | Presentation
- Robertson High School: "Operation River Walk" :: Flyer | Presentation
Fundraising
Middle School
- Desert Ridge Middle School: "Fall Bash" :: Presentation
High School
- Belen High School: "Fundraising" :: Flyer | Presentation
- Dulce High School: "Haunted House!" :: Flyer | Presentation
- East Mountain High School: "Howlyball" :: Flyer | Presentation
- La Cueva High School: "Think Pink" :: Flyer | Presentation
Health & Safety
Middle School
- (no entries)
High School
- Bloomfield High School: "Fentanyl Awareness" :: Flyer | Presentation
- Clovis High School: "Menstrual Hygiene Products" :: Flyer | Presentation
- Deming High School: "Cute Coats for Cool Kids" :: Flyer | Presentation
- Explore Academy: "See Something, Say Something" :: Flyer | Presentation
- Rio Grande High School: "Winter Wellness" :: Flyer | Presentation
- West Mesa High School: "Domestic Violence Drive" :: Flyer | Presentation
Membership Motivation
Middle School
- Dexter Middle School: "Serving Others Achieves Results" :: Flyer | Presentation
- Koogler Middle School: "Jolly Holiday" :: Flyer | Presentation
- Ruidoso Middle School: "Student Council Membership Motivation" :: Flyer | Presentation
High School
- Albuquerque High School: "Senate Jumpstart" :: Flyer | Presentation
- Artesia High School: "Leadership Workshop" :: Flyer | Presentation
- Highland High School: "Senate Summer Retreat" :: Flyer | Presentation
- Volcano Vista High School: "Senate Field Day" :: Flyer | Presentation
School Service
Middle School
- Dulce Middle School: "Feeding the Gang" :: Flyer | Presentation
- John Adams Middle School: "New Student Orientation" :: Flyer | Presentation
High School
- Manzano High School: "Project You We Community" :: Presentation
- Sandia High School: "Olé Coco Café" :: Flyer | Presentation
- St. Pius X High School: "Packing Day: Meal Preparation Project" :: Presentation
- Valencia High School: "Gondola-Ssentials" :: Flyer | Presentation
School Spirit
Middle School
- Cleveland Middle School: "Red Rally Days" :: Flyer | Presentation
- Hermosa Middle School: "School Spirit" :: Flyer | Presentation
- Los Alamos Middle School: "Spirit Competition" :: Flyer | Presentation
- Red Mountain Middle School: "Let Your Leadership Soar!" :: Flyer | Presentation
High School
- Arrowhead Park Early College High School: "Trailblazer Sunrise" :: Flyer | Presentation
- Aztec High School: "Ain't No Party Like an Aztec Party!" :: Flyer | Presentation
- Centennial High School: "The Games" :: Flyer | Presentation
- Cibola High School: "Awkward Family Photos" :: Flyer | Presentation
- Cleveland High School: "Themed Football Games" :: Flyer | Presentation
- Dexter High School: "Sanders Homecoming" :: Flyer | Presentation
- Eldorado High School: "Fun Friday" :: Flyer | Presentation
- Los Alamos High School: "We've Got Spirit, How' 'Bout You?" :: Flyer | Presentation
- Piedra Vista High School: "School Spirit" :: Flyer | Presentation
- Portales High School: "Can't Hide our Ram Pride" :: Flyer | Presentation
- Ruidoso High School: "Breast Cancer Awareness Face Painting" :: Flyer | Presentation
- West Mesa High School: "Turkey Trot" :: Flyer | Presentation
Staff Relations
Middle School
- Camino Real Middle School: "Put Some Lovin' in Your Tummy" :: Flyer | Presentation
- Cleveland Middle School: "Red vs. Black" :: Flyer | Presentation
- Dulce Middle School: "Staff Appreciation" :: Flyer | Presentation
- Koogler Middle School: "We Are Family" :: Flyer | Presentation
- Ruidoso Middle School: "Flamingo Friday" :: Flyer | Presentation
- Vista Middle School: "12 Days of Christmas" :: Flyer | Presentation
High School
- Del Norte High School: "Staff Appreciation Luau" :: Flyer | Presentation
- Eldorado High School: "Staff Buddies" :: Flyer | Presentation
- Lovington High School: "Soaring with Staff: Waffle Day" :: Presentation
- Mayfield High School: "Staff Appreciation at Mayfield" :: Flyer | Presentation
- Pojoaque High School: "Teacher Appreciation" :: Flyer | Presentation
- Valencia High School: "Giving the Gift of Appreciation" :: Flyer | Presentation
State Project: Be Well
Middle School
- Desert Ridge Middle School: "Unified Sports" :: Presentation
- Dexter Middle School: "Wellness Wednesday" :: Flyer | Presentation
- Hermosa Middle School: "Project of the Year: Be Well" :: Flyer | Presentation
- New Mexico International School: "Mental Health Matters" :: Flyer | Presentation
- Red Mountain Middle School: "Winter Back to School Bash" :: Flyer | Presentation
- Sierra Middle School: "Project Be Well" :: Flyer | Presentation
High School
- Belen High School: "Project Be Well" :: Flyer | Presentation
- Centennial High School: "Project Be Well" :: Flyer | Presentation
- Española Valley High School: "Operation Christmas" :: Flyer | Presentation
- Farmington High School: "FHS Wellness Week" :: Flyer | Presentation
- Highland High School: "Reach Out" :: Flyer | Presentation
- Mayfield High School: "Project Be Well & SAYSN" :: Flyer | Presentation
- Nex+Gen Academy: "Club Fair" :: Flyer | Presentation
- Pojoaque Valley High School: "Freshman Leadership Class District Project" :: Flyer | Presentation
- Rio Grande Preparatory Institute: "RGPI Staff vs. Stuco Step Challenge" :: Flyer | Presentation
- Rio Rancho High School: "Letters to Future or Past Self" :: Flyer | Presentation
2022 Project of the Year Entries
The following projects were submitted at the 2022 NMASC State Conference. Click/tap a category title to see the submissions.
Citizenship
Middle School
- Harrison Middle School: "Empowered Bathroom"
- Sierra Middle School: "The Hugs Project"
High School
- Early College Academy: "Citizenship: Reading for Purpose"
- Nex+Gen Academy: "Griffin Contacts"
- Sandia High School: "Sandia Gives Back"
Community Service
Middle School
- Camino Real Middle School: "Ask and You Shall Receive"
- Dexter Middle School: "Serving the Community"
- Dulce Middle School: "The Triple C: Caring Cookies of Cindness"
High School
- Artesia High School: "Pink Week"
- Bernalillo High School: "2nd Annual Toy Drive"
- Bloomfield High School: "Toiletry Drive"
- Capital High School: "To Infinity... And Be Well"
- Cibola High School: "Seed2Need"
- Del Norte High School: "2nd Annual Trunk or Treat"
- Deming High School: "Proyecto Armario para la Comunidad"
- Dexter High School: "Canned Food Drive"
- East Mountain High School: "First Responders Breakfast"
- Farmington High School: "Clothes for Kids"
- Highland High School: "Highland's PJ Donation"
- La Cueva High School: "12 Days of Giving"
- Lovington High School: "Trunk or Treat"
- Manzano High School: "Active Military Packages"
- Mayfield High School: "Four Projects - One Mission"
- Organ Mountain High School: "Community Service: Trunk or Treat"
- Pojoaque Valley High School: "Big Brothers Big Sisters"
- Pojoaque Valley High School: "Pojoaque's Giving Tree"
- Portales High School: "PHS Canned Food Drive"
- Ruidoso High School: "The Season of Giving"
- Sandia High School: "Trick or Treat for Cans"
- Volcano Vista High School: "Carrie Tingley Festival of Trees"
Environmental Awareness
Middle School
- Tony Hillerman Middle School: "Recycling Project"
High School
- Albuquerque High School: "Go Green/Green Paw Project"
Fundraising
Middle School
- Ruidoso Middle School: "RMS 'You've Been Flocked' Fundraising State Project"
- Cleveland Middle School: "Cleveland Competes"
High School
- Las Cruces High School: "Cruces Student Union: Project of the Year"
Health & Safety
Middle School
- Harrison Middle School: "Starting our HMS GSA"
High School
- West Mesa High School: "Domestic Violence Awareness Donation Drive"
Membership Motivation
Middle School
No middle school submissions in this category
High School
- Aztec High School: "AzteCrew"
- Bernalillo High School: "Killer Kindness"
- Dexter High School: "Kindness in Chalk"
- Highland High School: "Highland Senate Tree Decorating Competition"
- Volcano Vista High School: "VVHS Senate Field Day"
School Service
Middle School
- Camino Real Middle School: "We Are One"
- Red Mountain Middle School: "Red Mountain Middle School Stuco School Project"
High School
- Artesia High School: "Warm Welcome"
- Atrisco Heritage Academy: "Genter Neutral Courts"
- Centennial High School: "A Best Buddies Christmas"
- East Mountain High School: "Prom Picnic"
- Eldorado High School: "Soar Week"
- Española Valley High School: "School Clean Up Day"
- La Cueva High School: "Be Cool To Your School"
- Rio Grande High School: "Take What You Need"
- Rio Rancho High School: "Moving Up Ceremony"
- West Mesa High School: "Turkey Trot"
Spirit
Middle School
- Dulce Middle School: "Hawk School Spirit"
- Hermosa Middle School: "Hermosa School Spirit"
High School
- Cibola High School: "Homecoming Week 2021... New Traditions?"
- Clovis High School: "CHS School Spirit"
- Del Norte High School: "A Haunted Homecoming"
- Las Cruces High School: "Cruces Student Union: Project of the Year - Fun Fridays"
- Los Alamos High School: "Sparking School Spirit at LAHS"
- Los Lunas High School: "12 Days of Giving"
- Rio Grande High School: "Soaring with Spirit"
- V. Sue Cleveland: "Themed Football Games"
Staff Relations
Middle School
- Cleveland Middle School: "Teacher Appreciation"
- James Monroe Middle School: "Rockstar Teacher Awards"
- Los Alamos Middle School: "Hawk Happy Hour"
High School
- Albuquerque High School: "Teacher Welcome Back Assembly"
- Aztec High School: "We Love Our Teachers"
- Bloomfield High School: "Taco Lunch"
- Los Alamos High School: "You Got A Teacher in LAHS"
- Rio Rancho High School: "Holiday Party for Staff"
State Project: Be Well
Middle School
- Dexter Middle School: "Behavioral Bully Prevention"
- Ruidoso Middle School: "RMS 'Be Well' State Project"
High School
- Centennial High School: "Wellness Wednesday: Paint and Sip"
- Clovis High School: "CHS Mental Health"
- Deming High School: "Celebrating Community Fine Arts"
- Eldorado High School: "Project Kindness Day"
- Farmington High School: "Mental Health Fair"
- Mayfield High School: "Giving Back in the Borderland"
- Organ Mountain High School: "Be Well: Project Christmas"
- Ruidoso High School: "Warrior Wellness"
- V. Sue Cleveland High School: "Wellness Week"
- Valencia High School: "Lending a Helping Hand"
2021 Project of the Year Entries
The following projects were submitted at the 2021 NMASC State Conference. Click/tap a category title to see the submissions.
Citizenship
No Citizenship project entries this year.
Community Service
- Cleveland Middle School: “Blankets of Hope”
- Albuquerque High School: “Food & Clothing Drive”
- Artesia High School: “Military Goodie Bags”
- Bernalillo High School: “First Annual Toy Drive”
- Bloomfield High School: “Strengthening Our Community”
- Clovis High School: “Community Project”
- Deming High School: “Food for Families”
- Farmington High School: “Reading to Kids”
- Highland High School: “Highland’s Little Library”
- La Cueva High School: “12 Days of Giving”
- Los Alamos High School: “Community Service with a Food Drive”
- Las Cruces High School: “LCHS Food Pantry”
- Lovington High School: “Virtual Veterans Day Assembly”
- Rio Grande High School: “Junior Ravens Project”
- Rio Rancho High School: “Senior Citizen Project”
- Sandia High School: “Trick or Treat for Cans”
- V. Sue Cleveland High School: “Food Drive”
Environmental Awareness
- Mayfield High School: “Giving Back to the Environment”
- Sandia High School: “Environmental Awareness”
- Volcano Vista High School: “Staff Tumblers”
Fundraising
- Cleveland Middle School: “Cooking with Cleveland”
- Harrison Middle School: “Albuquerque Community Foundation Tech Fund”
- Bernalillo High School: “Scarf Sale”
- Oñate High School: “Fundraising”
Health & Safety
- Aztec High School: “Get to Green”
- Centennial High School: “Health Care Appreciation“
Membership Motivation
- Aztec High School: “Aztecrew”
- Rio Rancho High School: “Secret Stuco”
School Service
- Harrison Middle School: “Bitmoji HMS – Virtual School Tour”
- Ruidoso Middle School: “Adopt a Peer”
- Atrisco Heritage Academy: “Dude Be Nice”
- Cibola High School: “Dude Be Nice Month”
- Del Norte High School: “8th Grade Activity Day & Pep Rally”
- Eldorado High School: “Student-Led Professional Development”
- Manzano High School: “Operation Camera Strong”
Spirit
- Koogler Middle School: “Virtual Spirit Week”
- Centennial High School: “Hawk the Yard”
- Cibola High School: “Spring Online Spirit Assembly”
- Clovis High School: “School Spirit”
- Del Norte High School: “Virtual Spirit Week”
- Las Cruces High School: “Halloween Spirit Week”
- Los Alamos High School: “Topper Spirit in a Pandemic”
- Nex+Gen Academy: “Dude Be Nice to Students”
- Manzano High School: “A Different Spin on a Classic Tradition”
- V. Sue Cleveland High School: “You’ve Been Struck”
Staff Relations
- Artesia High School: “Spooky Baskets”
- Bloomfield High School: “Giving Thanks to the Staff”
- Rio Grande High School: “Staff Relations at RGHS”
- Ruidoso High School: “Teacher Appreciation:
State Project: Be Well
- Dexter Middle School: “Mental Health”
- Koogler Middle School: “Safe Teen NM/Dangers of Vaping”
- Sierra Middle School: “Reading Buddies”
- Albuquerque High School: “Hot-Choc-And-Talk”
- Deming High School: “Leading with Kindness”
- Early College Academy: “Elemental Outreach”
- Eldorado High School: “Virtual Mental Health Fair”
- Española Valley High School: “Be Well”
- Farmington High School: “Spiritual Well-Being”
- Highland High School: “Highland’s Be Well Week”
- Los Lunas High School: “Social Emotional Learning Workbook”
- Mayfield High School: “Project Purple”
- Nex+Gen Academy: “Nex+Gen Announcements”
- Oñate High School: “Pen-Pal Project”
- Pojoaque Valley High School: “Mental Health”
- Ruidoso High School: “Be Kind to Your Mind”
- Volcano Vista High School: “Hawk Kindness”