The grand prize award in our high school photo contest was made by Susanne Cambi, an exchange student from Italy attending Stevens High School.
As a way to reach the next generation with our message of protecting Rapid City’s parks, our intern suggested we sponsor a photo contest with prizes.
Memory Walk intern Isabel Anderson designed this year’s t-shirt.
We did, and we share the results with you here. A weekly winner was chosen during May based on “Likes” on our Facebook page, and a grand prize winner was selected by a group of talented photographers who are also members of our board of directors.
Susanne Cambi, 17, was an exchange student at Stevens High School and has this to say about her grand prize photo: “I’m an exchange student from Italy. I lived here for almost ten months and now the time came for me to leave. I got to experience the culture and to see the beauty of this place I now call home. Especially in the spring, I was so surprised by how amazing the nature can be, by the contrast between green and blue. I took a photography class at Stevens and I’ve always taken too many pictures. I took this one right after my last track meet of the year, I was standing on the track, happy and amazed by the spectacular view I had in front of me. It was a shot I could not miss.”
Canyon Lake Park, by Amanda Wessels, Stevens High School
Bridge to Old Storybook Island by Amanda Wessels, Stevens High School.
Goose at Canyon Lake by Kelli Bonser, Rapid City High School
Raindrops on Rapid Creek, by Isabel Anderson, Stevens High School.
A park as civic space, political rally by Caitlyn Speier of Stevens High School.
A view of the goal from a different perspective, by Susanne Cambi.