Tag: The AjA Project

  • Class Sizes: ‘I Care Because Students Need to Learn’

    By Jena Olson As part of The AjA Project PhotoCity program, students at Crawford High School spent time using cameras to examine factors at their school that affect their overall health. This week we’re showcasing a photo essay by student Hawa, 18. She used her photo essay as an opportunity to highlight the issue of…

  • ‘Still Room for Improvement on School Lunches’: Photo Essay

    By Jena Olson Last year, school districts throughout the country and right here in San Diego revamped their school lunch menus to comply with updated nutrition standards. The new USDA guidelines call for less salt and fat and more fruit and vegetables. And students are now required to pick out a nutritionally complete meal as…

  • City Heights Art Installation on Childhood Memory Finds New Home

    City Heights nonprofit The AjA Project is hosting “The Nature of a Door is to be Opened” in its formal gallery space on Fairmount Avenue. | Photo Credit: Jena Olson, The AjA Project By Megan Burks City Heights artist Brandi Maddelena and volunteers disassembled a row of boxes filled with colorful sculptures and audio players…

  • City Heights Photographers Compete in ‘App Wars’

    By Christina Chomut, The AjA Project Haga click aquí para leerlo la en Español App Wars – a competition for creative Hipstamatic and Instagram photographers – opened their most recent contest to The AjA Project’s Youth Advisory Council for an opportunity to showcase student entries. Photo Credit: Photo Credit: Christina Chomut The November event at…

  • Photo Essay: ‘Graffiti is a Distraction in School’

    By Jena Olson Speak City Heights partner The AjA Project is helping students at Crawford High School add their voices to the conversation about community health in City Heights. Using photography and narrative, they’re examining health issues — physical, mental and social — at their school and speaking to the issues that most directly affect…