Project Butterfly WINGS (Winning Investigative Network for Great Science) is designed to foster adolescents' interest, understanding, and long-term involvement in science, as well as promote positive youth development. Through WINGS, students form a network of butterfly observers who progress from beginners to engaged citizen scientists. A series of cumulative activities, each with a life skill and science inquiry skill component, culminates in a final activity in which students create a custom research project on a topic that interests them. Their skills combine in a dynamic interplay to equip each participant with rich, life-enhancing experiences they can apply to other areas.