Implementing this project has helped me to appreciate my own research project experiences in middle and high school, while modern technology has compelled me to rethink the traditional approaches to the research paper that I grew up with. Students today are reluctant to use print material, so I find myself occasionally redirecting them to the bookshelves. More often than not, they are surprised and intrigued to find that there is still good information there. I often hear them talk to each other about what they have found, and they discuss the veracity of online sources amongst themselves and with me. I find that they are more committed to learning their research than I remember anybody being in my school days. Combining the paper with a speech component also compels them to look at their findings in a way that will make them interesting in an oral format, and I believe this helps them to think somewhat more laterally.