Past Conferences

Linda Drake, the adviser at Chase County High School in Cottonwood Falls, is one of five NSPA Pioneer Award recipients for 2010. She will be honored Nov. 13 at the NSPA/JEA national convention in Kansas City, Mo. Drake is also a member of the KSPA board, serving as an Area…...

Students from Andover High School, Goddard, Shawnee Mission East, Shawnee Mission Northwest and Shawnee Mission West won several awards this past weekend at the JEA/NSPA national convention in Portland, Ore. Foremost among the winners was East’s Tim Shedor, the Kansas High School Journalist of the Year. Shedor was one of…...

Three Kansas advisers were awarded Gold Keys from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association at the CSPA’s annual conference this month in New York, and a fourth Kansan was awarded the Charles R. O’Malley Award. Linda Drake from Chase County High School, C. Dow Tate from Shawnee Mission East and Rebecca…...

Students from Humboldt, Mill Valley and Blue Valley earned top honors in the writing and video news contests sponsored by KSPA after the first Statehouse Reporter for a Day, Jan. 28 in Topeka. More than 40 students from 15 schools converged on Topeka on a cold Kansas morning, and they…...

Hello! It is time to shake off those cold weather blues and join us for the 6th annual Middle School Re-Design Workshops. The workshops will be held once again at Maize South Middle School, but our school has a brand-new beautiful facility so note the address change below. There are…...

KSPA is excited to announce its newest learning opportunity for students, “Statehouse Reporter for a Day,” a combination field trip/reporting contest in which students have the chance to interview state officials and legislators about the issues facing K-12 education in Kansas. Statehouse Reporter for a Day is set for Thursday,…...