What is something new that you are excited to do to relax this summer that doesn’t involve a screen? 

“I’m going to go to Seoul and Tokyo with my family, and we’re going to eat a lot of good food and go souvenir shopping and just travel in general and will also visit grandparents in L.A., which is also very fun and super relaxing because we get to spend time with them.” 

— Amy Zhao, ninth grader

“I am going to travel to a national park in Washington for a week, so yeah, it’s going to be relaxing.”

— Lucas Murgu, ninth grader

“This summer, I’m probably going to hang out with friends. Something new specifically, I have a go-kart that I got so that’s going to be really fun to drive around.”

— David Xie, ninth grader 

“One thing would be celebrating my dad’s birthday. He is going to turn 51, and my dad was really hoping that we would all be able to go out and just spend some time together, maybe go out to eat or go out on a walk somewhere.”

— Alondra Reyes, sophomore

“Me and my friends go to Gwendolyn Brooks Park a lot over the summer, and we’re going to play a bunch of pickleball. Pickleball is like tennis, but it’s with a smaller court and with paddles.”

— Owen Hannan, sophomore

“I’m going to a lot of places. The one I’m most excited about is going to Mexico. We have a house there, and we have a big pool, so I just like to sit out there and enjoy nature.”

— Zachary Laura-Frazier, sophomore

“One thing I’m going to enjoy doing over the summer without a screen would be going to the Point with my friends and swimming in the lake. I live in Hyde Park, so it’s very fun to go walk over, spend some time with friends, maybe play catch in the water, and I think it’s a good break from whatever things are going on in the day.”

— Conrad Stern, junior

“Something that I’m really excited to do this summer that I’m going to be doing a lot of is actually driving. I recently got my license in March, and now that I have it, my parents are starting to give me a lot more freedom, so I’m excited to go places to hang out with my friends, eat, maybe even go to the beach every now and then.”

— Tristan Hamilton, junior

“Chicago has been having these vintage fests around the city and in the suburbs, and I am really hoping to, over the summer, go to a bunch of them with my friends and my family because there’s just a bunch of booths of vintage clothes and thrifting and antique stuff.”

— Mercury Romero, junior