Category Archives: Reflections

10-15-2021 Reflections Call for Entries

Reflections is a National PTA-sponsored program that encourages students to express themselves through the arts. Students can submit work in the following six categories: Dance Choreography, Music Composition,
Literature, Film Production, Visual Arts and Photography. The art is judged at the school level with the winner in each category moving on to the County level, then District level, State level and finally National level. This year, similar to last year, all the Reflections entries will be digital.

This year’s theme is: I Will Change the World.

Please carefully reviews all the rules and guidelines, or rules and guidelines (Spanish) and pay particular attention to the following additional rules:

Dance and Film: if background music is used, citation is required
Literature: include word count, entries must be less than 2,000 words
Music: list musicians and/or instrumentation
Photography and Visual Arts: list dimensions
Dance, Film and Music: recordings must not exceed 5 minutes, file size must not exceed 1.000MB


More information about specific rules for each category can be found here:
Film Production Rules,Film Rules (Spanish)
Music Composition Rules, Music Composition (Spanish)
Photography Rules, Photography rules (Spanish)
Dance Choreography Rules
Visual Arts, Visual Arts (Spanish)
Literature Rules, Literature Rules (Spanish)


Entries will be submitted directly through specific links which will be updated soon.
This year’s deadline is Friday October 15, 2021.

Click here to enter: https://form.jotform.com/212501133743140

If you have any questions, please contact the Reflections program Chair Meredith Caldwell at
reflections@tjptsa.org

2021-01-31 TJ Reflections Participants Advance

We just had some news about how our participants are advancing in the program. Just to go back to the beginning of the program, we had art submissions in four categories: Photography, Literature, Music Composition and Visual Arts. 

Each student that scored the highest at the school level, went on to be judged at the Fairfax County Level. 

All four of the TJ students received Outstanding Interpretation at the County Level and went on to be judged at the Northern Virginia District Level. 

We just heard that two students received Outstanding Interpretation at the District Level and are now being judged at the State Level. 

State Level Results – Pending (Results in Late Feb/Mar)

Northern Virginia District Level

Outstanding Interpretation
Literature – Trini Rogando “Expanding Matter”   
Music Composition – Ethan Caldwell “A Journey Through Life”

Fairfax County Level

Outstanding Interpretation 
Literature – Trini Rogando “Expanding Matter”
    Music Composition – Ethan Caldwell “A Journey Through Life”
    Visual Arts – Sehyun Choi “Intertwined Hopes”
    Photography – Micaela Wells “Life Reflected in a Droplet”

Fairfax County Level

Outstanding Interpretation
Literature – Trini Rogando “Expanding Matter”
    Music Composition – Ethan Caldwell “A Journey Through Life”
    Visual Arts – Sehyun Choi “Intertwined Hopes”
    Photography – Micaela Wells “Life Reflected in a Droplet”

2020-10-16 Reflections Call for Entries

Reflections Arts is a nationwide program to encourage and recognize students’ initiative and talents in the arts.
Students can submit artwork entries about this year’s theme — “I Matter Because…” in any of six categories: Film Production, Dance Choreography, Literature, Music Composition, Photography, and Visual Arts. And this year all the Reflections entries will be digital. 

2020-2021 Reflections rules and entry forms can be found at the official site. 

Entries must follow all general rules and category-specific rules:

Entries will be submitted directly to the respective links below:

UPDATE: Submissions are closed. Thank you for participating!

  • Dance Choreography
  • Film Production 
  • Literature 
  • Music Composition
  • Photography 
  • Visual Art

For Film Production, Music Composition, and Dance Choreography,  if background music is used in dance/film, citation is required. List musician(s) or instrumentation for music. Recordings must not exceed 5 minutes, or be a file larger than 1,000 MB. For Literation entries, please include word count that must be less than 2,000 words. For Photography/visual arts, please list dimensions. 

Student entries are judged at school, county, district, state, and national levels. This year’s deadline is Friday October 16, 2020. 

If you have any questions, please contact the Reflections program Chair Meredith Calwell, Co-Chairs Lin Zhuang and Heather Li via the Reflections Contact Form.