April 15, 2024
Springfield Public Schools student journalists participated in competitions at the Journalism Education Association's Spring National Convention in Kansas City.
At JEA, there were approximately 4,000 attendees, with only 824 students competing. For the competition, students either prepared their photo or design entries based on a prompt and submitted them online a month in advance, received a packet of information on which to base their yearbook project on site, or students attended presentations, panel interviews and more and wrote a piece on the information provided.
JEA Student Winners
Central High School
- Chloe Cuniff, Excellent News Writing
In statewide competition, Central High School's "Resume" received an Honorable Mention for Yearbook Overall, "Central High Times" received a Superior for Newspaper Overall, Allison Loughary received an Excellent for Newspaper Inside Page Design, Emmarie Logan received an Honorable Mention for Sports Reporting and Ainsley Daccache received a Superior for Overall Theme/Concept.
Hillcrest High School
- Kallie Henderson, Superior Editorial Writing
In statewide competition, Hillcrest High School's "HTV Magazine" won All Missouri for Overall Newsmagazine. Plus, Jade Dunn received an Honorable Mention for News Writing, Quinn Rasley received an Excellent for Newsmagazine Cover Design, Emily Clotfelter received All Missouri for Review, Hunter Szahowski received All Missouri for Portrait, Sam Humphrey received an Excellent for Portrait, Ella Safley received a Superior for Portrait, Holten Pyle and Emily Clotfelter received All Missouri for Newscast/News Feature, Lauren Melton and Rylyn Rodriguez received Honorable Mention for Overall Theme/Concept, Rylyn Meek received All Missouri for Traditional Package-Academic, Lauren Melton received All Missouri for Traditional Package-Academic, Rylyn Rodriguez received an Excellent for Traditional Package-Academic, Kaden Creedit received Honorable Mention for Traditional Package-Academic, Rosely Figueroa received a Superior for Traditional Package-Academic, Gabrielle Lemmon received Honorable Mention for Traditional Package-Sports, Renae Howell received an Honorable Mention for Traditional Package-Sports, Jackson Miller and Jayden Brown received an Honorable Mention for Traditional Packlage-Student Life, Rylyn Rodriguez and Hunter Szahowski received an Honorable Mention for Traditional Package-Student Life, Lauren Melton received an Excellent in Yearbook Specialty Design, Peyton Martin received an Excellent in Yearbook Writing, Kallie Henderson received an Honorable Mention in Yearbook Writing and The "Hillcrest Highlight" received an Excellent for Overall Yearbook.
Glendale High School
In statewide competition, Jayden Barrington and Nathan Dills received a Superior in Human Interest Feature, Phelan Caudill and Jamie Santner received All Missouri in News Feature, Kaitlyn Brady and Maddax Klingensmith received Superior in News Feature, Salem Gregg and Addy Letterman received an Excellent in News Story, "The Glendale 411" received Superior in Newsmagazine, Salem Gregg and Addy Letterman received an Excellent in Sports Feature Story, "The Quill" received a Superior in Overall Newsmagazine, Clara Griffith received All Missouri for News Feature, Mia McGuire received Honorable Mention for News Feature, Mary Boehm received Honorable Mention for Newsmagazine Cover Page Design, Caelynn Rudy received Excellent in Portrait, Hudson Kemper received Superior in Portrait, Chloe Davidson received All Missouri in Sports Feature/Reaction Photo, Amari Isaia received Superior in Sports-Action Schools, Chloe Davidson received All Missouri in Student Life Photo, Chloe Davidson received Excellent in Student Life Photo and Libby Allen received Superior in Student Life Photo.
Kickapoo High School
- Liz Eike, Top 10 in the Nation for Editorial Leadership
- Kat Owsley
- Annemarie Wilhite
- Alley Ackerman
- Nyah Warren
- Alex Walsh
- Marin DeClue
- KHQ, Second Place, Best of Show Specialty Magazine
- KHQ, All Missouri Award
Kickapoo also had a number of students earn state awards: Joslyn Magers, Emma Franklin, Savannah Summers, Cayden Harman, Nadia Warren, Madison Bryant, Danika McDade, Courtney Farris, Amiah Pierce and Hannah Pile.
