Kid Power-DC and LINK middle school students chose to focus their photography project and advocacy efforts on school nutrition. Their interest in the issue stemmed in part from their participation in CookieTime, a new non-profit baking business operated by the students with the assistance of CakeLove.

With the support of their high school student mentors at Georgetown Day School, Kid Power students took photographs of school lunches and researched facts about nutrition, building on the knowledge they’d already developed through CookieTime. The students are currently in the process of sharing their concerns and potential solutions with the Executive Director of Food and Nutrition Services for D.C. Public Schools.