The culminating project proposal fit nicely with four educational goals outlined by the Washington Legislature in the 1990s: mastery of reading,
writing, and communication; knowing and applying the core concepts of math, the social, physical, and life sciences, civics and history, geography, the arts, and health and fitness; thinking analytically and
creatively and integrating experience and knowledge to form reasoned
judgments and to solve problems; and understanding the importance of work.