On April 10, the voting finished for the 2023 KSPA board election. A total of 64 members voted from all five areas of the KSPA map. Please see below for the elected candidates from the board elections: PRESIDENT ELECT: Barb Tholen of Shawnee Mission North High School (unanimous) …...
Madison Loomis wins 2023 Sunflower Award
KSPA congratulates the 2023 Sunflower Award winner: Madison Loomis from Maize South High School. The Sunflower Award recognizes new advisers who show enthusiasm and dedication to building a strong journalism program and aims to encourage those teachers to remain in the profession. Loomis advises the yearbook and teaches English at…...
Spencer O’Daniel, adviser at Maize Career Academy, named 2023 Engel Award Winner
From a press release provided by Kansas Collegiate Media: Kansas Collegiate Media is honored to announce Spencer O’Daniel, teacher and publications adviser at Maize Career Academy, as the 2023 Jackie Engel Award winner for excellence in scholastic publications advising. “Mr. O’Daniel is the among the best in Kansas, in fact,…...
Congratulations to the February 2023 monthly contest winners!
The February monthly contest had 137 entries submitted. The schools earning the most awards are Blue Valley West High School and Shawnee Mission East High School with a total of five awards each. Bishop Miege High School, Blue Valley Northwest High School, Lawrence High School, Maize Career Academy and Mill…...
Congratulations to the December 2022 – January 2023 monthly contest winners!
The December-January monthly contest had 152 entries submitted. The school earning the most awards is Maize Career Academy High School with a total of seven awards. Bishop Miege High School, Blue Valley Northwest High School, Lawrence High School and Mill Valley High School finished with a four-way tie with five…...
Congratulations to the November 2022 monthly contest winners!
The November monthly contest had 142 entries submitted. The school earning the most awards is Mill Valley High School with a total of eight awards. Lawrence High School came in second with six total awards. Video News 1st Place: Sydney Lampkin, Stahley Sears, Haley Barnard, Kinsley Morrison from Maize Career…...
Unveiling the 2022 All-Kansas Yearbook winners
Congratulations to the following KSPA-member yearbook staffs who earned All-Kansas yearbook status in the 2022 All-Kansas critiques. As of Nov. 30, our judges have critiqued at total of 47 books and awarded 24 All-Kansas awards. Judges were supplied a critique booklet and a copy of the yearbook in October. The…...
Congratulations to the October 2022 monthly contest winners!
The October monthly contest had 182 entries submitted. The school earning the most awards is Shawnee Mission East High School with a total of six awards. Maize Career Academy came in second with five total awards. Video News 1st Place: Natalie Partridge, Stahley Sears, Spencer Rich, Adrian Sanders from Maize…...
Congratulations to the August/September 2022 monthly contest winners!
The August/September monthly contest had 151 entries submitted. The school earning the most awards is Shawnee Mission East High School with a total of seven awards. Wow, a four-way tie between Blue Valley Northwest High School, Lawrence High School, Maize Career Academy and Olathe South High School with six awards…...