We sincerely thank all the students who participated in the 2020-21 PTA Reflections Program. In these challenging times, you created in basements, garages, backyards, hallways and out in nature to express this year’s theme. Two hundred thirty-seven virtual entries, representing all six arts categories, were received at the state level. More than eighty schools, in seven of our PTA Regions, met the challenge to submit entries expressing how “I Matter Because…” while PTA leaders, school staff and parents stepped up to encourage, support, document and upload their imaginative students’ works.

We are thrilled to announce the twenty-six entries advanced to the National PTA level and acknowledge the forty-eight Illinois PTA Honorable Mentions.