Each Launchpadder this year has worked hard to discover a Superpower Skill, a gift or talent to be honed to serve others, not only to earn a good living in the real world but also to attract world-class opportunities likely to lead to a calling.

Our goal with this session’s New Media Quest was to offer an authentic glimpse into life as a media professional, held in tension between wanting to create something beautiful and needing to satisfy customers or patrons. 

Launchpad was transformed into a production studio filled with cameras, lighting equipment, and editing bays.  Every day there are creative deadlines, blogging prompts, and photography challenges. 

On the artistic level, Launchpadders asked:  Why do the best photos transcend the medium and transform?  What happens deep inside when you take in a captivating image? How does it change you? How the most powerful photos change the life of a community and nation?

As Launchpadders prepared for the exhibition, they had to weight artistic, commercial and personal goals to decide what mattered most:

• Personal satisfaction for creating great work?
• Selling all of your prints?
• Leaving the guests in awe? or
• Just having a good time?

At the exhibition, parents and guests browsed, asked Eagles about their creative process and bid on their favorite print in a silent auction.

By the end few prints were left unsold and each artist left with some extra spending money.   Yes, art may be its own reward but so is honing a potential Superpower Skill and selling something you made with your own hands.