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Providing support and leadership in scholastic journalism

Kansas Scholastic Press Association

Providing support and leadership in scholastic journalism

Kansas Scholastic Press Association

January Story of the Month final results in

January Story of the Month final results in

Travis Diesing February 7, 2013

Sixteen students placed in last month's Story of the Month contest. There was a tie for third in the feature writing category. Shawnee Mission East's Matt Hanson's news story on Rockhurst drug testing...

2013 All-Kansas Write-Off now available

2013 All-Kansas Write-Off now available

January 28, 2013

The KSPA and Kansas Professional Communicators (KPC) present the All-Kansas Write Off contest. This contest is an opportunity for students journalists to submit published work from the last year for critique...

1st Place—Academics, Jennifer Terrell, Maize. "Sophomore Jon Nguyen works on desktop publishing assignments."

Ties result in many placing in November Photo of the Month contest

Travis Diesing, Multimedia Assistant December 14, 2012

Twenty-two students placed in the November Photo of the Month Contest due to ties in four of the five categories. There were ties for second and fourth places in Sports, second place in Student Life, fourth...

November Design of the Month winners

November Design of the Month winners

December 12, 2012

9 students placed in the November Design of the Month contest. Student entries were judged in the Newspage layout category and Yearbook Layout category. Below are the winning entries along with the students...

November Story of the Month winners announced

November Story of the Month winners announced

December 7, 2012

13 students from high schools across Kansas placed overall in the November Story of the Month contest and 2 received honorable mention. Most of the awards went to Johnson county schools in the Shawnee...

Seven students place in October Design of the Month contests

Seven students place in October Design of the Month contests

Travis Diesing, Multimedia Assistant November 12, 2012

Seven entries from Kansas high schools earned places in October's Design of the Month contest. A crew from Maize made up of Anna Weaver, Keaper Czarniecki, Taylor Hall, Reagan Schenck and Kirsten Fisher...

Mill Valley video feature wins October Multimedia of the Month

Mill Valley video feature wins October Multimedia of the Month

Travis Diesing, Multimedia Assistant November 12, 2012

A video feature on barbecue restaurant "Papa Bob's" and its monster sandwich "The Ultimate Destroyer" won Brenna Iskra and Hannah Reichle of Mill Valley first place in October's Multimedia of the Month...

1st Place Overall—Maria Betancourt, BV West

October Photo of the Month results released

Travis Diesing, Multimedia Assistant November 11, 2012

Nineteen students placed in last month's Photo of the Month contest with ties for first in Sports and Student Life, and ties for third in Academics and Photo Illustration. Maria Betancourt from Blue Valley...

SM East, Maize students dominate October Story of the Month contest

SM East, Maize students dominate October Story of the Month contest

November 10, 2012

Students from SM East, Maize, SM South, and Wichita East took first place in this month's Story of the Month contest. A total of 12 students placed in the top three in five separate categories. Here...

SM Northwest video wins September contest

SM Northwest video wins September contest

October 10, 2012

A video on how local bands make it in Kansas City earned McKinnon Walsh of Shawnee Mission Northwest first place in the September KSPA Multimedia of the Month contest. The winning video, despite having...

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