Power of One Project IDeas

A Better You

  • Focus on job-specific skills you could use to start a simple business. (Later, you might turn this into a Career Connection or Entrepreneurship STAR Events project by actually creating, promoting, and managing a business.)
  • Create and track a personal budget via computer.
  • Set a goal to lose weight or make healthier choices
  • Set a goal to improve your grades

Family Ties

  • Install and train parents to use a computer-based financial program.
  • Improve relationships with one or both parents by spending one day a week with them engaging in new and interesting activities.
  • Read to a sibling or step-sibling on a regular basis.

Working on Working

  • Explore your family’s work history by interviewing relatives about their jobs.
  • Complete an interest inventory for your future career and use various Web sites to help complete it.

Take the Lead

  • Reach out to someone who is ill or lonely and encourage other friends to do the same.
  • Run for FCCLA chapter or state office.

Speak Out for FCCLA

  • Educate other students in your school about STAR Events and FCCLA.
  • Organize a Family Night for all FCCLA members and their families to learn communication skills through fun activities, games, pizza and dinner.
  • Talk to a local reporter about your FCCLA activities.