The Gold Challenge requires students to create a leadership service-learning project that integrates prersonal and professional interests, the community, and developing leadership in others.  Students select an organization, group, or "cause" for which  they can apply the leadership concepts and skills learned through the Leadership Challenge program to improve a real situation in a particular community.  Participants are responsible for identifying a need (with the assistance o the organization), developing alternative solutions to meet the need, selecting an alternative to implement, implementing the solution, and evaluating the result.