Scenes From the Student Walkout

Manhattan Center for Science and Mathematics during Wednesday’s walkout

Manhattan Center for Science and Mathematics student protestor Iman Faris

Manhattan Center for Science and Mathematics Robert Awuah

Preparing protest signs before Wednesday’s student walkout

Manhattan Center for Science and Mathematics students head into the streets at 10 a.m. Wednesday.

High school students from the Manhattan Center of Science and Mathematics hold a walkout against gun violence and mass shootings.

Trevor Day School students link arms during a moment of silence commemorating the seventeen students killed by a gunman last month at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.

After walking out of classes, Trevor Day School students observed seventeen minutes of silence — one for each fatal victim in the Parkland shooting — on 95th Street Wednesday morning.

A student affixes a homemade sign to the wall before an organizing rally Wednesday evening at the 15th Street Meetinghouse in Manhattan.

Trevor Day School students after walking out of class at 10 a.m. Wednesday in protest of school shootings, gun violence, and congress’s failure to pass gun control laws

Trevor Day School ninth grader Celeste Honey chants while surrounded by her classmates on Fifth Avenue Wednesday.

Students from Trevor Day School livestreamed their walkout protest, which made its way from the Upper East Side to Columbus Circle and later through Central Park.

Trevor Day School senior Mary Grace McMillan, center, chants demands for gun control legislation with her classmates near Central Park during a walkout protest Wednesday.

Sara Dorzback, a senior at Trevor Day School, marches with classmates along 59th Street.

Along with a packed room of students, parents, and educators, New York Harbor School senior Julia Schles observes a moment of silence Wednesday night in memory of the seventeen students killed during the Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school shooting.

NYC iSchool senior Maya Gmach registers to vote at an organizing rally Wednesday evening at the 15th Street Meetinghouse in Manhattan. “This is the first time a mass amount of students have taken charge of their own lives,” she said. “I’m going to vote for reps who value me and want change.”

New York students gathered in Manhattan video chat with Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school students Ryan Deitsch and Delaney Tarr. Both Deitsch and Tarr helped found the new youth gun control advocacy group Never Again MSD and are organizing the upcoming March for Our Lives protest.