From 125 entries, the judges for our monthly contest chose the 40 winning entries below as the best of the submissions. Shawnee Mission East High School collected 10 awards including 5 first place entries. Kyra Haas of Lawrence Free State collected two awards (first in News Writing and contributed to second…...
Capturing Regionals
A photo gallery by University of Kansas student Lauren Muth of the morning session at the KSPA regional contests Friday, Feb. 28 at the University of Kansas Union. Students competed in nine on-site contests including Copy Editing, Sports Writing and Feature Writing. Dean Ann Brill of the William Allen White…...
Julia Poe of Shawnee Mission East named top student journalist
Julia Poe, a senior and two-year editor-in-chief of Shawnee Mission East High School’s news website, received the award as Kansas Student Journalist of the Year 2015 during a ceremony Monday, Feb. 23. Poe earned the honor in competition with 16 other student journalists from around the state of Kansas…...
The winners of the January Monthly Contest!
Check out the winners of the KSPA monthly contest below. Seventeen different schools collected on 46 awards from yearbook copy to video news. The biggest winners? Staff members from Blue Valley Southwest and Shawnee Mission East each earned four awards. And from Shawnee Mission North and Pittsburg High School, there…...
Kansas adviser wins Special Recognition Award
Congratulations to Shawnee Mission West yearbook adviser Amy Morgan for her award of Special Recognition Yearbook Adviser from the Journalism Education Association. The award was announced Jan. 19 on JEA’s website. Morgan advises the Saga staff at the high school in Overland Park. Morgan also acts as KSPA’s secretary and has…...
November 2014 Monthly Contest Results
Congratulations to the winners of the November 2014 monthly contest! Be sure to follow @kspastaff on Twitter so that we can mention you and your award-winning work. Please contact us at staff@kspaonline.org with any corrections or questions. There were 137 entries in the contest this month, and 14 different schools…...