KPC announces winners in Write-Off Competition
April 30, 2010
Students from Phillipsburg, Shawnee Mission Northwest, Shawnee Mission East, Blue Valley Northwest and Lawrence High School won first place in the Kansas Professional Communicators and KSPA All-Kansas Write-Off Competition for 2009-2010. View the results in this link. All first-place winners in national... Read more »
Twenty news publications earn All-Kansas distinction
April 29, 2010
Twenty high school news publications — at least one from every classification in the state — earned All-Kansas distinction from the KSPA All-Kansas judging and critique service for 2010. The winners will receive All-Kansas plaques at the State Contest, scheduled for Saturday at the Kansas Union in... Read more »
Help a Kansas school earn a visit from President Obama
April 24, 2010
Blue Valley Northwest has a chance to hear President Barack Obama speak at the school’s 2010 commencement ceremony, and you can help make it happen. Voting begins at 7 a.m. CDT, Monday, April 26, for the winner of the first annual Race to the Top High School Commencement Challenge. Voting ends... Read more »
Kansas students shine at JEA/NSPA convention in Portland
April 19, 2010
Students from Andover High School, Goddard, Shawnee Mission East, Shawnee Mission Northwest and Shawnee Mission West won several awards this past weekend at the JEA/NSPA national convention in Portland, Ore. Foremost among the winners was East’s Tim Shedor, the Kansas High School Journalist of... Read more »
Salina South grad wins a Pulitzer Prize
April 13, 2010
Colleen McCain Nelson, 1992 graduate of Salina South High School, has won a 2010 Pulitzer Prize for her work as an editorial writer for the Dallas Morning News. McCain Nelson, along with editorial colleagues Tod Robberson and William McKenzie, was awarded the Pulitzer for an ongoing series of editorials... Read more »
Mill Valley teacher wins 2010 Jackie Engel Award
April 12, 2010
Kathy Hill Habiger, the journalism adviser for Mill Valley High School, Shawnee, has won a prestigious journalism teaching award for 2010. Habiger is this year’s recipient of Jackie Engel Award, sponsored by the Kansas Associated Collegiate Press and named in honor of Jackie Engel, a former journalism... Read more »
SM Northwest student wins March contest with swim photo
April 9, 2010
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‘Amigos’ layout wins design contest for SM East students
April 7, 2010
Katie Kulaga and Gaby Thompson’s two-page news magazine spread depicting students’ summer volunteer work in Honduras was judged Best in Show and won the Shawnee Mission East students the next-to-last Story of the Month contest, which focused on news publications design. The spread ran in... Read more »
