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Student publications win 33 awards, including 3 All-State Gold honors, at JEM/MHSPA Convention

Student publications win 33 awards, including 3 All-State Gold honors, at JEM/MHSPA Convention

On October 1, SPA publication students attended the 2024 JEM/MHSPA State Journalism Convention. The event featured keynote speaker MaryJo Webster, lead data editor at the Minnesota Star Tribune, who offered remarks about how to "interview the numbers" to aggregate and analyze data to tell human stories. SPA student journalists were the recipients of 24 Gold Medallions and 4 Best of Show awards. The award winners are:

Journalism Educators of Minnesota (JEM) awards

  • The Rubicon  | All-State Gold, Newspaper
  • RubicOnline  |  All-State Gold, Website
  • Iris: Art + Lit  |  All-State Gold, Art and Literature
  • Ibid  |  All-State Silver, Yearbook
  • RubicOnline TV | All-State Silver, Broadcast

MHSPA Best of Show Awards

  • The Rubicon  | First Place, Newspaper
  • RubicOnline  |  First Place, Website
  • Iris: Art + Lit | Second Place, Art and Literature
  • Ibid  |  Seventh Place, Yearbook

Minnesota High School Press Association (MHSPA) Gold Medallions

  • Broadcast
    • Second Place | Broadcast Feature Story - Rita Li, Zimo Xie, Lani Ngonethong
    • Fifth Place | Broadcast Feature Story - Nora McKoy
  • Newspaper / Newsmagazine
    • Newspaper Page Spread Design
      • Third Place | Johanna Pierach
    • Editorial Cartoon
      •  Fourth Place | Annika Kim 
    • Editorial Opinion
      • Fifth Place | Sonia Kharbanda
    • Sports Story
      • Second Place | Lina Abid
    • Multimedia Story Package
      • First Place | Staff - The Rubicon
      • Fifth Place | Staff - The Rubicon
    • Online Interactive Graphic
      • First Place | McKinley Garner
    • Social Media Reporting 
      • Fourth Place | Mariam Malik
  • Photojournalism
    • Feature Photo
      • Third Place | Sofia Rivera
      • Fifth Place | Olivia Campbell
    • Sports Photo
      • First Place | Elizabeth Tuttle
    • Photo Illustration 
      • Second Place | Siri Pattison
  • Iris: Art + Lit
    • Cover / Spread Design
      • First Place | Caden Deardurff
      • Third Place | Eva Johnson
    • Literary Arts Magazine Visual Content
      • First Place | Carys Hardy
      • Fourth Place | Anneli Wilson
    • Literary Arts Magazine Literary Content
      • Third Place | Ivy Evans
      • Fourth Place | Ellie Putaski
  • Ibid: Yearbook
    • Academics / Clubs Copy
      • Third Place | Juan Miguel Adams
    • Student Life Story
      • First Place | Aldegundo Brenneman
      • Second Place | Ivy Evans
    • Yearbook Theme Package
      • Third Place | Sophia Bietz, Eliza Dayton, Hadley Dobish

Student Editors in Chief for the 2023-34 publications winning awards are: 

  • The Rubicon: Claire Kim '24 and Orion Kim '24
  • RubicOnline: Clara McKoy '24
  • Ibid: Sophia Bietz '25
  • Iris: Art + Lit: Hadley Dobish '25

Student Editors in Chief for the 2024-25 publications winning Best of Show are:

  • The Rubicon: Annie Zhang '25
  • RubicOnline: Aarushi Bahadur '25

"What I hope people notice as they look at the diverse list of award winners," Director of Publications Kathryn Campbell said, "is the many ways our students engage with journalism and publication. Whether it's the student who submitted a poem they wrote for English or a sculptor who made a statue in ceramics, whether it's a first-year staff writer crafting a profile for the yearbook or a seasoned editor digging into interactive multimedia graphics... their work shows dedication to their craft and authenticity of voice."

Congratulations to all of our student journalists!