The Kansas Scholastic Press Association celebrates the best student work in its Quarterly Clips Contest, honoring the strengths of 87 student entries in the Quarter 3 contest.
Leading the competition was Shawnee Mission East High School with 12 placing entries, followed by Shawnee Mission Northwest High School with 10 and Pittsburg High School with seven. Judges reviewed ore than 230 entries.
KSPA looks forward to seeing even more student work in the final clips contest of the year. Entries for the Quarter 4 Quarterly Clips Contest are due Friday, May 1. Submission information is here, and we’re ready to start accepting your work now.
About the contest:
Judges marked each entry with feedback for students to use to improve their work throughout the year. Under a new process, students are competing by school classification with divisions for 1A/2A, 3A/4A and 5A/6A. When the 5A/6A categories were particularly large, they were split into separate divisions. The number of entries awarded for each category fluctuates based on the number of entries and judge preferences. We also asked judges to provide general feedback based on all the entries. Some of that feedback is included below.
Quarter 3 Design Winners
DESIGN: Digital Illustration 5A/6A
1st Place — Dani Hufford, Olathe South High School
2nd Place — Maddy Mullins, Blue Valley West High School
Feedback from the judges: The sophistication of color use and texturing, along with accurate proportions stood out.
DESIGN: Editorial Cartoon/Cartoon 5A/6A
1st Place — Kai Wilson, Pittsburg High School
2nd Place — Hudson Terreros, Shawnee Mission East
Feedback from the judges: Well developed mature individual style of cartooning.
DESIGN: Infographic Design 5A/6A
1st Place — Avery Clement, Mill Valley High School
2nd Place — Emily Kozlowski, Blue Valley High School
DESIGN: News publication design 5A
1st Place — Audreey Nguyen, Kapaun Mt Carmel Catholic High School
2nd Place — Hannah LaCroix, Blue Valley Southwest High School
DESIGN: News publication design 6A
1st Place — Avery Clement, Mill Valley High School
2nd Place — Greta Grist, Shawnee Mission Northwest
3rd Place — Bridget Dean, Francesca Lorusso, Kennedy Moore, Shawnee Mission East
4th Place — Greta Grist, Shawnee Mission Northwest
5th Place — Hannah Billen, Lawrence Free State High School
DESIGN: Yearbook spread design 5A
1st Place — Delanie Gill, Blue Valley Southwest High School
2nd Place — Lenore Pinkerton, Spring Hill High School
3rd Place — Ally Becton, Blue Valley Southwest High School
4th Place — Cannon Loughmiller, Pittsburg High School
5th Place — Kinsley Ballard, Goddard High School
DESIGN: Yearbook spread design 6A
1st Place — Macy Williams, Shawnee Mission North High School
2nd Place — Izaiah Rivera, Shawnee Mission South High School
3rd Place — Erilyse Smalls, Olathe East
4th Place — Elizabeth Owusu Addo, Shawnee Mission South High School
5th Place — Grace Deschaine, Shawnee Mission East
Quarter 3 Multimedia Winners
MULTIMEDIA: Multimedia story package 5A/6A
1st Place — Ryker Marmon, Dylan Estes, Mia Delker, Spring Hill High School
2nd Place — Julia Campbell, Tyler Russell, Shawnee Mission East
3rd Place — Lucy James, Abbey Blasi, Shea Splittorff, and Elke Brock, Blue Valley High School
MULTIMEDIA: Podcast 5A/6A
1st Place — Jaxen Terhune, Goddard High School
2nd Place — Emi Stone, Rakshan Ossen, Lawrence Free State High School
3rd Place — Kai Wilson, Brock Fryar, Wesley Hayes, Pittsburg High School
Feedback from the judges: Short, simple and good quality won first place in podcast.
MULTIMEDIA: Social Media 5A/6A
1st Place — Evan LeRoy, Mill Valley High School
2nd Place — Mary Kate Mitchell, Harper Ward, Shawnee Mission Northwest
3rd Place — Isabella Silva, Josie Conrad, Katie Alonso-Valdivia, Brilee Mantooth, Pittsburg High School
4th Place — Devon McFadden, Shawnee Mission East
Feedback from the judges: Loads of information was related through the picture gallery format. Quality photo, image graphics were used.
MULTIMEDIA: Video news/feature 1A/2A
1st Place — Sidney Brooks, Jaycelyn Richter, Inman High School
Feedback from the judges: The subject matter of the story is easily heartfelt by the viewers. The B-roll clips had interesting POVs and supported the audio information.
MULTIMEDIA: Video news/feature 5A/6A
1st Place — Evan LeRoy, Mill Valley High School
2nd Place — Nate Berry, Goddard High School
3rd Place — Cooper Glasscock, Isaiah LeFevre, Goddard High School
MULTIMEDIA: Video sports news/feature 5A/6A
1st Place — Scarlett Weiss, Blue Valley West High School
2nd Place — Kejon Campos, Goddard High School
Feedback from the judges: The winner (bowling video) was solid and straightforward. The two interviewees were very informative.
Quarter 3 Photo Winners
PHOTO: Academics 1A/2A
1st Place — Jaycelyn Richter, Inman High School
PHOTO: Academics 5A/6A
1st Place — Christine Landis, Olathe East
2nd Place — Sofia Ball, Shawnee Mission Northwest
3rd Place — Ali Albertson, Shawnee Mission Northwest
Feedback from the judges: Every part of the image helped tell the story and made it better. A superlative, entertaining photo.
PHOTO: Environmental Portrait 5A/6A
1st Place — Evan LeRoy, Mill Valley High School
Feedback from the judges: Winner was a masterfully posed environmental portrait. Strong technical quality.
PHOTO: Feature 5A/6A
1st Place — Lucy Wilson, Shawnee Mission Northwest
2nd Place — Josie Mangine, Shawnee Mission East
3rd Place — Molly McDermed, Shawnee Mission East
4th Place — Rai Irimpan, Blue Valley West High School
Feedback from the judges: The winning image combined a great technical skill with finding a great moment. Also, the captions in the top-placing images enhanced the reader’s understanding of what was happening in the photo.
PHOTO: Photo Gallery 5A/6A
1st Place — Evie Tindell, Mill Valley High School
2nd Place — Kaia Bach, Newton High School
3rd Place — Jensen Clark, Pittsburg High School
Feedback from the judges: All photographers need to work on composition to maximize their skills for the best results.
PHOTO: Sports 1A/2A
1st Place — Jasa Pankaskie, Altoona Midway USD387
2nd Place — Esynce Rutz, Inman High School
3rd Place — Jasa Pankaskie, Altoona Midway USD387
4th Place — Sidney Brooks, Inman High School
Feedback from the judges: Solid control of technical elements in all entries. Winners had stronger composition to enhance storytelling.
PHOTO: Sports 5A
1st Place — Isabella Silva, Pittsburg High School
2nd Place — Kaia Bach, Newton High School
3rd Place — Owen Scruggs, Piper High School
Feedback from the judges: The planning, execution and story told in the winning image is outstanding. One of the best images I’ve seen this year from any high school photographer.
PHOTO: Sports 6A
1st Place — Aisha Shariff, Blue Valley West High School
2nd Place — Finley Feagans, Shawnee Mission East
3rd Place — Tyler Russell, Shawnee Mission East
4th Place — Miles Thomas, Blue Valley Northwest
5th Place — Luke Merriam, Olathe East
Feedback from the judges: Sports photographers did a superior job of capturing peak action and reaction in this contest. With sharp focus, accurate color renditions, good contrast and tight cropping, many of the entries were outstanding. It was a challenge to narrow the entries to the winners.
Quarter 3 Writing Winners
WRITING: Features 5A
1st Place — Callie Tess, Blue Valley Southwest High School
2nd Place — Hannah LaCroix, Blue Valley Southwest High School
WRITING: Features 6A
1st Place — Lucy Stephens, Shawnee Mission East
2nd Place — Adria Heinauer, Zoe Weneck, Blue Valley Northwest
3rd Place — Annabel Hall, Shawnee Mission Northwest
4th Place — Michael Yi, Shawnee Mission East
5th Place — Kristen LeBeau, Shawnee Mission North High School
Feedback from the judges: The topic was timely, writing was lively and fun but didn’t step on the tone of the topic.
WRITING: News 5A/6A
1st Place — Maya Moore, Kapaun Mt Carmel Catholic High School
2nd Place — Jonah Frye, Lawrence Free State High School
3rd Place — Andrea Lucas, Olathe South High School
4th Place — Sofia Ball, Shawnee Mission Northwest
Feedback from the judges: The best news stories balanced the factual paragraphs and the quotes.
WRITING: Opinion (Editorials, Columns or Reviews) 5A
1st Place — Dovie Bowers, Kapaun Mt Carmel Catholic High School
2nd Place — Addison Zerger, Newton High School
3rd Place — Dieonna Combs, Pittsburg High School
WRITING: Opinion (Editorials, Columns or Reviews) 6A
1st Place — Emmersyn Bonebrake, Derby High School
2nd Place — Hope Hunt, Shawnee Mission Northwest
3rd Place — Paige Faulkner, Blue Valley High School
WRITING: Sports (newspaper or yearbook) 5A/6A
1st Place — Griffin McDonnell, Lawrence Free State High School
2nd Place — Madison Brown, Spring Hill High School
3rd Place — Josh Sopha, Olathe South High School
Feedback from the judges: The best sports news stories had a simple, singular focus, were straight forward, and made good use of quotes.
WRITING: Yearbook Copy 5A/6A
1st Place — Coco Reiser, Shawnee Mission East
2nd Place — Rylie Hunter, Shawnee Mission North High School
3rd Place — West Howard, Saffie Senghore, Olathe East
4th Place — Sadie Babler, Shawnee Mission Northwest
Feedback from the judges: Yearbook stories benefit from finding the human interest side of the story and using meaningful, storytelling quotes. The top story went inside the head and feelings of the story subject.