FCCLA STAR Events Project Ideas
Note: These project ideas may not meet all the criteria as listed in the national STAR
Events guidelines. They are provided as “thought provokers” to start members thinking
about their own projects.
Applied Technology
An individual or team event, recognizes participants who develop a project using
technology that addresses a concern related to family and consumer sciences and/or
related occupations. The project integrates and applies content from academic
subjects.
 Create a PowerPoint presentation about money management.
 Create a video about preschoolers’ mental development.
 Conduct computer diet analysis for high school students.
 Create a computer program or home page that explores a family and consumer
sciences career.
 Develop a fashion photo essay about fall fashion trends. Using technology, shoot
and develop photos and produce a portfolio with captions.
 Analyze the advertising and consumer education components of web sites that
target children.
 Analyze how home computers influence family nutrition and wellness.
 Develop an FCCLA cookbook.
Chapter Service Project
A team event, recognizes chapters that develop and implement an in-depth service
project that makes a worthwhile contribution to families, school and communities.
Students must use family and consumer sciences and/or related occupations skills to
address and take action on a community need.
 Organize a Career-O-Rama for the school.
 Conduct a seatbelt check in the school parking lot.
 Sponsor a school-wide food drive built around the USDA’S Food Guide Pyramid.
 Team up with a clothing bank to operate a classy boutique for homeless teens.
Every few months the “store” offers school clothes, sports equipment, and gifts.
Members set-up displays and serve as fashion consultants.
 Sponsor a Diaper Derby to collect diapers for new moms.
 Sponsor a “Hero Among Us” celebration to recognize those in the community
who serve the public (firemen, policemen, military, etc.).
 Create a local childcare directory and take it to the local hospital for distribution
to new parents.
 Develop a project to bridge the gap between generations and promote positive
relationships.
Entrepreneurship
An individual or team event, recognizes participants who develop a plan for a small
business using family and consumer sciences skills and sound business practices.
Participants are evaluated on the business plan and an oral presentation and are not
required to have implemented the plan. The business must relate to an area of
family and consumer sciences education or related occupations.
 Study the market and develop a business plan for a company providing personal
and home care for elderly residents, as well as respite care for families with ill or
handicapped members.
 Invite an interior designer or other entrepreneur to discuss the ups and downs of
owning a housing-related business. Incorporate this information into the business
plan you develop for the Entrepreneurship event.
 Research and develop a business plan for clothing needs of physically
handicapped children or adults.
Focus on Children
An individual or team event, recognizes participants who use family and consumer
sciences skills to plan and conduct a child development project that has a positive
impact on children and the community.
 Sponsor a family fun night once a month for parents of young children.
 Obtain costumes to dress as Vince and Larry, Buckle Bear or McGruff, and visit
elementary classrooms.
 Create an activity book for Head Start parents.
 Develop and present nutrition games for elementary students.
 Develop a series of self-esteem-building activities for elementary students.
Feature fun activities while educating children to make positive lifestyle choices.
 Decorate and furnish a child’s room through a local program that builds low-cost
housing.
 Teach first graders about proper nutrition and the food guide pyramid. Teach
them how to make nutritious snacks at home, and let them practice.
 Conduct age-appropriate conflict management and violence prevention activities
with children.
 Create a project that includes money management lessons and /or
entrepreneurship experiences for youngsters.
 Develop a Home Alone care package for families.
 Host a Stranger Danger Seminar for parents and children.
Illustrated Talk
An individual or team event, recognizes participants who make an oral presentation
about issues concerning family and consumer sciences and/or related occupations.
Participants use visuals to illustrate content of the presentation.
 Develop a presentation about why young people need to become aware of career
choices and identify FCCLA projects that explore careers.
 Develop a presentation about the challenges people face as they try to balance
work and family life. Suggest specific ways young people can build the skills
they need through FCCLA.
 Develop a presentation about current research on eating disorders and explain
how FCCLA members can develop healthy lifestyles.
 Develop a presentation about local low-income housing needs or some other
current issue related to housing.
 Develop a presentation about the effects drinking and drugs have on an unborn
child.
 Develop a presentation about addressing the need for financial management
education.
 Develop a presentation about the importance of prenatal care.
 Develop a presentation about the importance of hand washing.
 Develop a presentation about volunteerism and making a difference in your
community.
 Develop a presentation about stress management techniques.
Interpersonal Communications
An individual or team event, recognizes participants who use family and consumer
sciences and/or related occupations skills and apply communication techniques to
develop a project designed to strengthen communication in a chosen category:
community, employment, relationship, family, peer groups or school groups.
 Teach middle school students how to “just say no” (refusal skills).
 Teach peers how to communicate effectively with parents.
 Survey concerns and communication needs of teens and parents. Report results in
school and local newspapers and offer communication-improvement tips with the
daily school announcements.
 Research family relations and communication techniques for conflict resolution.
Demonstrate an understanding of the information by developing various case
studies and offering solutions for each.
Job Interview
An individual event, recognizes participants who use family and consumer sciences
and/or related occupations skills to develop a portfolio, participate in an interview
and communicate a personal understanding of job requirements.
 Assess your current earning potential. Identify skills you could use to offer
services, such as childcare or home maintenance, then investigate current rates for
such services. Use this information as the basis for a Job Interview entry.
 Research appropriate dress for job interviews, then demonstrate your findings at a
chapter meeting. Encourage members to use this information while preparing for
the Job Interview event.
National Programs in Action
An individual or team event, recognizes participants who explain how the planning
process was used to implement a national program project.
Develop a presentation that explains how chapter members used the FCCLA
planning process with national projects such as:
Community Service
Families First
FACTS
Financial Fitness
STOP the Violence