Project Citizens program puts middle-schoolers in charge of civics projects

Gruening Middle School students Allison Hiseley and Abby Buchanan with their Project Citizen materials. (Photo courtesy of Tonya Shakhov)Civic engagement sounds, let’s face it, pretty boring to most people. But the eighth graders at Gruening Middle School in Eagle River don’t seem bored at all. They’re competing in Project Citizen, a program that teaches students how to participate in local and state government, training politicians of the future. The state competition took pla