We, the students requesting the formation of a TARS club, wish to encourage student involvement in both government and politics. Currently, less than one-third of all Americans in the country participate in the national election. This figure is truly shocking, and most be rectified. We believe that encouraging high school students to become more interested in politics and government, will cause more students to vote , when they graduate, and will cause more parents to vote, as their children will be more interested in politics. We wish to give students the potential to speak with their representatives, both regional and national, and will, therefore, invite government leaders, such as Tom Feeney, Mel Martinez, etc., to speak to members of the TARS club. We wish to encourage community service and projects that help the community. The TARS club, if formed, will lead several community service projects each year. Examples of such projects can be found on page two of this proposal. We wish encourage students to participate in other extracurricular programs such as the Model Student Senate, the Mock City Council, the Student Advisory Council, the Student Government Association, the Debate team, and the Speech team. We wish to hold sessions warning teenagers, and students in middle school about the dangers and potential consequences of illegal drug use, illegal drinking, and other such immoral and destructive decisions. We wish to work together with the Student Advisory Council and Students Against Destructive Decisions, to host seminars on these topics. We also wish to encourage students to take more advanced Social Studies classes, such as AP US History, AP World History, AP US Government, AP Comparative Politics, AP Microeconomics, AP Macroeconomics, and AP European History. We wish to familiarize students with Parliamentary Procedure, through seminars. We wish to encourage students to read the great political works, with authors such as Machiavelli, Locke, Rousseau, de Tocqueville, Marx, Voltaire, Plato, Aristotle, and Hamilton; by having sessions in which we discuss and analyze these historical works. Finally, we wish to create a club that any teen age republican interested in politics and government can join.