Area students of all ages are doing special projects in connection with National Volunteer Week, which started Sunday and ends Saturday.

Here’s what some of them are up to:

 Broken Arrow School: More than 250 students are writing letters to soldiers posted overseas.

 Free State High School: Students are having a schoolwide drive to collect canned good and paper products for the Community Drop-In Center. One hundred Free State juniors will volunteer at Clinton State Park, the Social Service League and Lawrence Parks and Recreation.

 Lawrence Alternative High School: Eight students will volunteer with Habitat for Humanity.

 Eudora Girl Scouts have prepared care packages for Hannah’s House Foundation.

 Baldwin High School: Freshmen and sophomores will clean city parks, streets and the Baldwin Nursing Home on Wednesday, then have leadership games and team-building exercises with sixth-graders in the afternoon.

 Eudora Middle School students will prepare care packages for Penn House.