Shaping Our Future

How might our Genius Hour project help us stand out to colleges and help shape our life plans?

Applying to colleges can be stressful because they look at so many different applications submitted from all sorts of people with different hobbies, backgrounds, and achievements. This project will help us stand out from all the other applications because of our creativity, dedication, and success from our work. Julia and I (Macey) have noticed local non-profits have a limited amount of supplies, and always need more. We will be donating all of our profits to the student ministry East Nashville Hope Exchange (http://enhopeexchange.org/). We hope they will use this money to purchase new and better supplies so the children have the opportunity to love art like we do. Our genius hour project, The Perfect Picture, will make us stand out to colleges not only because we want to help the children's ministries that have a hard time providing art supplies (the basic art utensils) through our love of photography in an art gallery and that we raised the money by ourselves. Also, that we want to let the children in the ministry have the same opportunities to see the beauty in art and give them the chance to express it like Julia and I (Macey). This project will also shape our life plans because we both love photography, and by doing this project, we are able to expand our photography skills, and gain confidence as we move forward in our careers. We hope to keep photography as a side hobby. “My Perfect Picture” also encourages us to go out and adventure different parts of the world.