This week, the voting finished for the KSPA board election and the proposed revisions to the KSPA constitution. A total of 52 members voted from all five areas of the KSPA map. Please see below for the elected candidates from the board elections: MEMBER AT LARGE: Julie Barker of Augusta…...
Congratulations to the March 2022 monthly contest winners!
The March monthly contest had 100 entries submitted. Schools earning the most awards are Mill Valley High School and Maize Career Academy. Mill Valley earned a total of seven awards. Maize Career Academy came in as a close second with six earned awards. Video 1st Place: Trey Reisman, Curtis Wellborn,…...
USD 383 Manhattan High Administration Team named 2022 Administrator of the Year
A team of administrators from Manhattan High School has been named KSPA’s 2022 Administrator of the Year, an award which recognizes secondary school administrators who have stood up for the First Amendment and advocated for journalism students. The recipients from USD 383 are Superintendent Marvin Wade, Assistant Superintendent Eric Reid,…...
Remembering Dana Leibengood
On Saturday, Dana Leibengood, the first director and one of the founding members of KSPA passed away at the age of 89. Along with Jackie Engel, Dana Leibengood began the Kansas Scholastic Press Association and remains one of only five directors in the history of the association. In 1995, Leibengood…...
Olathe West student wins Courage in Journalism Award
The Kansas Scholastic Press Association congratulates the winner of the 2022 KSPA Courage in Journalism Award: Emily Harter of Olathe West High School. Harter’s nomination materials describe how she wrote an opinion piece, published in December 2021, that recommended her school abolish a hand gesture that was used as a…...
Tucker Love wins 2022 Sunflower Award
KSPA congratulates the 2022 Sunflower Award winner: Tucker Love from Shawnee Mission 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. Love advises The Patriot Online news website,…...
Congratulations to the February 2022 monthly contest winners!
The February monthly contest had 135 entries submitted. Schools earning the most awards is a three-way tie between Blue Valley Northwest High School, Mill Valley High School and Shawnee Mission Northwest High School all receiving five awards each. Bishop Miege High School was next and earned four awards. Video 1st…...
2022 Regional Contest Results
Congratulations to the students who submitted thousands of entries for the 2022 KSPA Regional Contests and won the awards below. A REGIONAL RUNDOWN Over the past month, 72 Kansas high schools submitted more than 2,166 entries to the KSPA Regional Contest. Here are your winners! 1A/2A Results PLAINS REGIONAL: Full…...
Cuyler Dunn of Lawrence High School earns Kansas Student Journalist of the Year
The Kansas Scholastic Press Association congratulates Cuyler Dunn on winning the statewide honor of the 2022 Kansas Student Journalist of the Year. Dunn is co-editor-in-chief of The Budget, the school’s newspaper. The overall winner is chosen among the winners of three different enrollment classifications: 1A/2A, 3A/4A and 5A/6A. In the…...
Congratulations to the December 2021 – January 2022 monthly contest winners!
The December 2021-Janaury 2022 monthly contest had 156 entries submitted. Mill Valley High School received the most awards, earning eight total. Shawnee Mission East High School was next and earned five awards. Video 1st Place: Noah Byer, Cooper Kelley, Luke Fabrizius from Maize Career Academy 2nd Place: Caroline Bork from…...