Parkland students captivated nation, but will their message resonate on Election Day?

They’ve held hundreds of rallies including a massive gathering on the National Mall, appeared with Trevor Noah and other late-night television hosts and challenged elected officials to face-to-face debate.

But nine months after the teenage students from Parkland, Fla., were thrust to the fore of America’s daily political discourse following the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, their calls for gun control, and for registering and turning out young voters, have been largely overtaken by the nation’s daily crush of controversies.

While the effort they ignited was viewed early on as a possible tipping point, even the slaying of 11 people in a Pittsburgh synagogue last weekend with weapons that included an assault rifle triggered a muted response concerning gun control.

Yet as Tuesday’s midterm elections loom, the students who launched the national movement known as March for Our Lives, have remained undeterred, traveling to dozens of college campuses and registering voters, while keeping gun control at the forefront of their pitch. And they remain confident that even if they have personally receded from the national spotlight, their message continues to resonate.

“The work on the ground is being done – it truly, truly is,” said Jaclyn Corin, 18, a senior at Stoneman Douglas and co-founder of March for Our Lives. “We’re seeing movement and gaining traction.”

Throughout the fall, Corin and more than a dozen other current and former Stoneman Douglas students have traveled from coast to coast holding town halls and meetings with college students to discuss gun control and emphasize the importance of engagement in the political process. The tour has inspired the hashtag #voteforourlives and the group estimates it has registered 50,000 voters – many of them young people between the ages of 18 and 29.

The effort could make a difference in boosting election participation this year among younger voters, who historically turn out in small numbers for the midterms.

A poll released this week by the Institute of Politics at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government found 40 percent of 18- to 29-year-olds say they will “definitely vote” in Tuesday’s elections. The highest rate of youth voter turnout in past midterms was 21 percent, in 1986 and 1994, according to the survey, which cited U.S. census data.

“We want people to recognize that they can make a difference regardless of their age,” Corin said.

Since the Feb. 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman that left 17 students and instructors dead, activists from March for Our Lives, many of whom have amassed large followers on social media, have seen a bit of movement at the state level in efforts to limit gun sales. Students and supporters from the March for Our Lives movement greet each other as the Road to Change bus tour with both the national and state tours meet in Tallahassee, Fla. for a rally to gather support and register voters.