At Sanford, students must complete the community project in 8th grade (Year 3 of MYP)

The community project focuses on community and service, encouraging students to explore their rights and responsibilities to implement service as action in the community. The community project gives students an opportunity to develop awareness of needs in various communities and address those needs through service learning. As a consolidation of learning, the community project engages in a sustained, in-depth inquiry leading to service as action in the community. The community project may be completed individually or by groups of a maximum of three students.

MYP projects prepare students for further education projects and presentations, such as those in the DP and CP, the International Baccalaureate Programme options in 11th & 12th grades. There are strong links between the MYP projects and subject-specific assessments in the DP, such as the global politics engagement activity through the nature of the task and the presentation style of the report; however, MYP projects relate most directly to the cores of the DP and CP.