Twenty years ago a group of Lamesa High School students were asking themselves what they could do about some of the challenges they and their classmates were facing. As members of the school’s Community Problem Solving (CmPS) team, they were seeing how such things as alcohol, substance abuse and violence were impacting their generation. And if Lamesa students were facing those problems, they believed, others elsewhere likely were in the same situation, recalls Iva Beck, who was helping to sponsor the CmPS team at the time. That was their impetus for Project SUMMIT, standing for Students Uniting to Make Meaningful Influences Together. Seeking to ...