Replaying memories has become much easier in the last decade with the advancing technology of smart phones. Now, schools are integrating these new technologies in every way possible. The ReplayIt app is now being used at SAHS as well as many other schools to help collect pictures of the students throughout the year and replay these memories in the yearbook.

ReplayIt was created by Jostens, a company that specializes in graduation items and yearbooks. The app is free to download on the app store for both Apple and Windows products.

After making a free account and searching for a school students can upload pictures for their classmates to see. It is similar to instagram in layout, and students can like each others pictures.

Yearbook staff member junior Nick Fredrick, “It’s a good way for us and the entire school to capture pictures.”

The pictures posted are expected to be school appropriate as well as show Pony Pride.

Yearbook staff member junior Agwa Watba explained, “This app is a great way for students to tell us, the yearbook staff, what pictures they would like to see be put in the year book.”

The purpose of using this app for the yearbook this year was to have more pictures of the students’ daily lives. The yearbook staff always does its best to get the most pictures during school days and at school wide events, although they cannot possibly get pictures of everything students do during the the year without the help of apps like ReplayIt.

Watba said, “We decided that we wanted to have this years yearbook include more pictures of people doing things not only inside of school, but in their lives outside of school as well, Rather than just having a bunch of pictures of students sitting in desks.”

Using this app also creates the opportunity for students who are not on the yearbook staff to have a say in what they see in the yearbook.

Watba added, “We wanted to have students outside of the yearbook staff have the opportunity to submit pictures that they would enjoy seeing in the yearbook.”

Students love seeing themselves and their friends in the yearbook. It’s a way for them to relive memories from the school year. Having the option to put their own memories in the yearbook is a way to involve the students in the process.

Junior Peace Sinyigaya said, “I believe they should include the student body.”

As students continue to take pictures the yearbook staff will continue to put the pictures together with the help of apps and other technologies to put together the final yearbook throughout the year.