This year's senior projects are a varied bunch.

They range from a documentary movie on the Chief Shakes House rededication to middle-school wrestling programs. Whatever the subject of the senior project, whatever the personal interest of the student involved, each student almost invariably used the words “to give back” to describe their project.

Senior projects with 25 community service hours are required for graduation from Wrangell High School. While the number is a bare-bones requirement, students often exceed that limit.

Take Kristin Galla's documentary about the Shakes rededication...