Photographs help to tell a story, sell a product, and make memories with your friends and family. So who wouldn’t want a student who can take a good shot?

The ability to go beyond taking pictures and onto creating photographs that ask the viewer to connect them to their own lives is the challenge this year for the 8th-grade photography students. Each week, the students learn different aspects of photographic design that they then have to apply in a Weekly Photo Challenge where they are given a topic or theme and they have to create a photograph that best represents that idea. Themes have included love, fear, adventure, and happiness.

Every cover of National Geographic, every news story, and every advertisement for Hyundai has an eye-catching photograph. Why can’t it be your student’s?