Portfolio of the Year Contest
The Kansas Scholastic Press Association will recognize the best individuals in Kansas scholastic journalism in four different categories based on their submitted portfolios. These contests — in design, photojournalism, video and reporting — are open to any student journalist on a staff with a current KSPA membership. Deadline to apply is March 31, 2025. Click here for more information on the awards and to enter the contest. Please note, you’ll need to sign in using a Google account to complete the form.
The contests were launched in 2020 by the KSPA board to help recognize some the excellent and specialized student journalists in Kansas.
2025 State Contest information
Let’s get ready to Bring It again! Prompts for the State Contest visual categories are READY for you to work on. If you placed in the Regional Contest in any of these categories, you are eligible to compete for big points in the State Contest. Registration deadline is Monday, March 31. Deadline for visual submissions is Thursday, April 3, 2025 at 5 p.m. State Contest writing prompts will drop Monday, April 7 and are due Thursday, April 10 by 5 p.m. The State Celebration adviser breakfast and awards ceremony is Saturday, May 3. Read about all things State Contest and Celebration using this link.
KSPA Student Showcase
Amazing, inspiring and professional grade. Yep, we’re talking about the entries submitted for the Winter Showcase. KSPA staff has curated the best ones for you to use as inspiration. Click here to be amazed. Congrats to all those entries selected for the showcase.
Throw it back to December and see all the great work turned in for the Fall Showcase.
KSPA Awards Information
If it’s one thing KSPA loves to do, it’s recognize the very best of our member students, staffs and advisers. But we need your help. Nominate someone for, apply for and register for these KSPA awards:
Middle school contest entries are due April 10: Enter your best work from your middle school program to get valuable feedback and earn some awards for your staff. Click here for more information.
New KSPA director
The Kansas Scholastic Press Association is pleased to announce that Barbara Tholen will become executive director beginning August 2025. Tholen has taught journalism at Lawrence High School for 15 years, following 10 years as a newspaper reporter at The Kansas City Star and The Topeka Capital-Journal. She has been an active KSPA member and currently serves as president-elect.
Click here to read more about Tholen’s vision for KSPA.
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Providing support and leadership in scholastic journalism
The Kansas Scholastic Press Association is composed of Kansas scholastic journalism students and their teachers. The organization is committed to excellence in journalism at all levels and views its focus as one of providing journalism education leadership for Kansas teachers and students. The KSPA provides a support system through its contests, conferences and scheduled activities.
Our Stories. Our Voices. Our Freedom.
Kansas students have extraordinary free expression rights, thanks to a landmark law passed in 1992. Students and teachers can learn about their rights and how the law was made in this documentary, produced by KSPA.
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