The Fire Project
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The Proposal

Your Fire Project proposal should be considered as the outline for your project. Your proposal should include the topic and how it relates to the student's post-secondary career path.  The proposal provides the student’s adviser with a framework to determine whether the project is immediately approved, approved after modifications, or should be resubmitted. The proposal is an instrument for 
choosing a topic, outlining your plan, guiding your research, discovering a problem, identifying root cause(s) and then offering a solution or a product to fill the need or solve the problem. This also provides you with the valuable experience of planning, preparing, and presenting a proposal similar to the expectations found in a professional work environment.
With that being said, the Fire Project is about learning and doing something that each students wants to do after high school.  This is a chance to choose a topic that will be interesting and worthwhile and will extend their knowledge.  As each student begins the Fire Project they should think about the following questions:

  • Is the research topic one that is reflective of their career interests?
  • Is the research topic one in which they are interested, but not an expert?
  • Is the research topic one that is broad enough to allow them to access enough information, yet narrow enough to make the research scope reasonable?
  • Is the research topic one that is challenging to their academic and creative abilities?
  • Have they avoid choosing a topic that might endanger them?
  • Have they used good judgment to be certain that the topic they chose is appropriate for presentation to a review panel and the general public?