This summer, KSPA kicks off “The Drive: The Jackie Engel Endowment Fund Golf Tournament” as a means for potential donors to have fun and contribute to the endowment. The Drive is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. July 10, 2011, at the Alvamar Golf Club in Lawrence. Kansas high school faculty and…...
Seven Kansas students win national journalism awards from NFPW
Seven Kansas high school journalism students have placed in the National Federation of Press Women High School Communications Competition. Three of those students — Maggie Simmons and Andrew Goble from Shawnee Mission East, and Andy Wickoren from Shawnee Mission Northwest — won first place in their respective categories. The students…...
All-Kansas winners announced
The results for All-Kansas winners for news publications, websites and videos are in. The entries were judged by top journalism advisers from around the country and went through an extensive critique process. The winners for each paper, video program and website are considered the best of that category in the…...
Shawnee Mission West adviser wins Jackie Engel Award
Amy Morgan, the journalism adviser for Shawnee Mission West High School, has won a prestigious journalism teaching award for 2011. Morgan is this year’s recipient of Jackie Engel Award, sponsored by the Kansas Associated Collegiate Press and named in honor of Jackie Engel, a former journalism teacher at McPherson High…...
Two Kansas schools earn national Pacemaker finalist ranking
Two Kansas student digital publications have been named finalists for Pacemaker awards by the National Scholastic Press Association. The Shawnee Mission East Harbinger Online was named a national online Pacemaker finalist. The Harbinger is one of just 37 news websites to earn the distinction and one of only 18 that…...
20 All-Kansas Yearbook winners named
Twenty 2010 Kansas yearbooks earned All-Kansas distinction this year in the annual critique service and contest. Judges from around the country evaluated more than 60 yearbooks in all. The schools that earned All-Kansas honors are (click on the link beneath the list to see a map of the All-Kansas schools):…...