Alas the grade school experience and evolution of our young adults is almost complete for the class of 2016 graduates at OLG. In 2007 when this class had its journey begin in kindergarten I had the honor and privilege to document a playful and inquisitive group of children who were just starting down the road in their academic development. As you can see, much has changed from then till now. However I was also pleasantly surprised by how much had remained the same in terms of the kids personality development and seeing new interests and passions arise within them.

Similar to 2007 this year's eighth-grade school auction art project revisited the theme of, "Who and what do our children envision themselves moving forward into the future". It's with this broad open ended question I was hoping to engage and excite the kids to express themselves again with this project.

I would like to thank the entire class of 2016 graduates and their parents for the support of this project putting forth the thoughtful effort to give me some visual nuggets and inspiration to work with. I hope you enjoy the images and insight into these young adults as you comb through this project. I hope you enjoy looking at these images as much as I did creating them all for you.