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For six of the 12 years that Carmel Valley teenager Amanda Zhang has been in school, her favorite extracurricular activity has been working on the yearbook staffs at her middle and high schools.
So when Zhang knew she’d be yearbook editor-in-chief for her senior year at Canyon Crest Academy, she was so excited she started planning out the book’s theme and design a year in advance. Then came the pandemic.
Like students at high schools all over San Diego County, Zhang and her 40-member yearbook staff had to find a new way to memorialize a school year when the campus was closed, sports were cut or postponed, plays and concerts were performed online and annual traditions like the winter formal and prom were canceled. And even though these students found creative ways to remotely produce their yearbooks from home, is there a market for annuals that celebrate a mostly lost school year?
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