A special publication highlighting 20 years of editors at The Sailors’ Log newspaper earned the Mona Shores High School student media outlet first-place honors in the Michigan Interscholastic Press Association’s Special Projects contest.
The competition is one of several MIPA spring contest categories. It honors student work that goes beyond the regular work of that student media outlet. Results in the 2017 Special Projects category are:
First Place
“Where are they now?”
Adviser Warren Kent III has been in charge of the newspaper at Mona Shores for 20 years. Current staff members tracked down the previous 20 years worth of editors-in-chief and wrote profiles about them.
Staff
The Sailors’ Log
Mona Shores HS
Second Place
“Peace, Power and People”
Martini’s Kalamazoo in collaboration with Loy Norrix student journalists presents: A neighborhood spotlight on local dreams.
Staff
The Knight Life
Loy Norrix HS
Third Place
“Living without limits”
A video created for PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs for the assignment: Limitless: Breaking the Bounds of Disability.
Noah Hudson-Peralta
CreuseLine
Frederick V. Pankow Center
Honorable Mention
“Love Your Life”
A video featuring students doing the activities they love and living in the days they are given. It is a message to encourage others to love where they are and what they are doing and to enjoy the spaces they live in.
Sam Nichols
Uncaged
Stockbridge HS
“Join the Cosmos Times brochure”
A brochure created by the student to increase the enrollment in the journalism/newspaper class.
Mitun Das
Cosmos Times
Hamtramck HS
“The Northern Wipe”
This publication, which comes out weekly, goes in every stall/above every urinal in all of the staff and student restrooms.
Abby Seeber & Lily Antor
Northern Light
Portage Northern HS