Most Wharton Management 100 teams plan events and sell T-shirts to raise money for their clients and causes.
But for Team Shout, the goal is different: raising political awareness.
Working for entrepreneur and Wharton alumnus Ryan Comfort, the team is promoting Our Voice 2008, a Web site that seeks to politically engage voters between the ages of 18 and 30.
"Young voters in general are not well represented in this country," Wharton freshman and team member Andy Xu said.
The project, currently being promoted at Penn as well as other schools, aims to change that.
The site features a survey that asks users to rank the importance of issues like abortion and social security on a 100-point scale.
Users are then asked to indicate their likelihood of voting for various Democratic and Republican presidential candidates.
Over 250 people have filled out the survey so far, but site organizers won't rest until 560 people from every state participate.
In addition to the survey, the site features an interactive statistical picture of the differing opinions of students across the country.
The site will also include an issue of the month, kicking off in two weeks with abortion.
Comfort says the site will provide comprehensive, non-partisan coverage of a different issue each month to cover all political viewpoints and give each topic the analysis it deserves.
The upcoming elections are not the only reason for this project's pertinence: Organizers cite a general lack of political activism among Penn students as another motivation.
"I think the majority of the students don't know a whole lot about the issues," College senior and College Republicans chairwoman Abby Huntsman said.
With heavy workloads and busy schedules, it's difficult for students who are not studying in the relevant departments to educate themselves about politics, Huntsman said.
One potential problem with the project is whether there is an incentive for people to participate in it.
There is more demand for partisan information because people like to read their own views, Political Science professor Rogers Smith said.
"Non-partisan sites may contain information that may be disturbing to users," he said.
Whatever the market, students agree on the site's benefits.
Wharton freshman Xiang-yu Chen, who has taken the survey on the site, said the site reminded him that the political world is still active, even though he may have been oblivious to it.
