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A student writing up observations in a lab notebook beside a rack of test tubes holding seedlings, in a science room with tall windows
A teacher standing beside students at their desks while one reads aloud from a printed handout, in a classroom with Japanese hiragana charts on the wall
Three students in winter coats standing on East 67th Street, each with a 35mm film camera hung around their neck, ready for a photography assignment in the city
A student leaning over a laptop to program a small microcontroller board, with a tub of tangled jumper wires open on the desk beside them
Four students working quietly around a table in a sunlit classroom with tall windows, high ceilings and paper lanterns strung overhead
Ten students working around a large round table, some writing in notebooks and others on laptops, in a shared study space
A row of students standing at a green chalkboard, each working through a different calculus problem
A packed room of students standing with their backpacks, listening to a classmate speaking at the front beneath a chalkboard and a wall covered in photographs
Two students painting at a shared studio table covered in acrylic tubes and mixed paint, one working on a tree silhouette and the other on a soft red abstract canvas
Graduates in blue caps and gowns seated on tiered steps beside a lectern and an Urban Academy sign, with a staff member speaking at the podium
A student sitting on a studio floor surrounded by dozens of black-and-white prints spread out around them, holding one up to examine it
Students standing in front of a black display wall pinned with dozens of black-and-white photographs, studying the work on show
Two students in the horticulture room examining a leaf cutting propagating in a glass jar, with seedlings and grow lights on the shelves behind them