We love Instagram. In fact, we love it so much that we decided to do a fun experiment—but we need your help! We’ve created a hashtag for everyone to use so that we can make a cool photo gallery over the summer with all the submissions.

The theme? Being a Chicago teen during the summer!

Follow us on Instagram by searching for MashChicago and be sure to hashtag your photo #mashsummer in order to make it into our gallery!

Wait…what if I don’t have Instagram?
No problem, you can still play! If you don’t already have Instagram, you can also email us your photos at themash@tribune.com or tweet them to us @MashChicago and we’ll happily upload them to our Instagram account and apply a fun filter for you.

Here are a few of the #mashsummer photos that we’ve gotten so far: