ANNOUNCING: altering the 2022 regional contests while adding conferences
KSPA is stepping up to support Kansas journalism students with these changes to the 2022 Regional Contests — AND! — by adding Regional Conferences in February. WHAT’S NEW? The Regional Contests – both visual and writing – remain as online submissions contests this year and KSPA will use the in-person…...
2021 KSPA T-Shirt Contest
It’s the 2021 KSPA T-shirt Design Contest Unlike previous t-shirt design contests, this one allows you to celebrate student journalism in Kansas — not attached to any event. Put your design skills to the test. The winning T-shirt design (or maybe more than one!) will be sold to celebrate student…...
Becky Tate selected as President-Elect while four other board members join KSPA leadership
Voting for the KSPA board for 2021-2023 concluded in April via an electronic ballot with Becky Tate of Shawnee Mission North High School being selected president-elect while Kathy Habiger of Mill Valley High School retains her seat on the board as secretary. In the voting for area representatives, there were…...
Riley Atkinson of Shawnee Mission East earns Kansas Student Journalist of the Year
The Kansas Scholastic Press Association congratulates Shawnee Mission East senior Riley Atkinson on winning the statewide honor of the 2021 Kansas Student Journalist of the Year. Atkinson is co-editor-in-chief of the Harbinger Online, the school’s news website. The overall winner is chosen among the winners of three different enrollment classifications:…...
ADVISERS: please respond to our new year
A letter from executive director Eric Thomas During our most recent KSPA board meeting, the board members were joking about the cliches that have come from this pandemic. Events are “unprecedented.” Every organization is “pivoting” and then finding “the new normal.” When events can’t be “socially distanced,” they must be…...