Students snap in style with new Snapchat Geofilter
- Kristina Kim
- Nov 14, 2015
- 1 min read
Students can now show their school pride—but only for an instant.
Junior Kethan Galloway created a Snapchat geographical location tag, or Geofilter, that is unique to Chapel Hill High School.
Snapchat, a picture messaging app released in 2011, is popular among high school and college students. The ability to submit Geofilter designs was opened to the general public in 2014.
Galloway initially came up with the idea to make a Geofilter as he was signing up for Tiger Roar, a school club centered around promoting school spirit.
“I wanted to help make students feel more proud of our school in a way that hasn’t been done before,” Galloway said.
Galloway designed the Geofilter using Adobe Photoshop and then submitted it by following directions on the Snapchat website.
“The students’ reactions were really positive, and it was really cool seeing all the stories posted using the Geofilter I designed,” Galloway said.
Senior Claire Lancaster is one of many students excited to have a school Geofilter.
“I saw that Panther Creek had their own, and now we finally have one, too,” Lancaster said.
Some students responded by creating Geofilters of their own.
Junior Sarah Popkin was inspired to design a Geofilter after learning how Galloway created one.
“I liked how we were able to personalize [the filter] to make it our own. The process wasn’t that hard to follow,” Popkin said.
Expect to see plenty of Snapchat Stories featuring Galloway’s Geofilter at Chapel Hill High School.
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