Staff Wins Individual Awards

The 2009 Channing yearbook received a rating of Award of Honor. Student publications are judged and assigned ratings by publications specialists. The ILPC (Interscholastic League Press Conference) judges are master teachers who have advised award-winning publications and who know the nuances of student publications. Certificates are presently given to those publications which earn the following ratings: Award of Distinguished Merit - The association's highest rating, Award of Achievement - The association's second-highest rating, Award of Honor - Awards superior efforts in student publications, Award of Merit - Recognizes service and devotion to scholastic journalism.

The yearbook staff submitted entries ranging from news writing to sports photography to yearbook theme development for the IAAs (Individual Achievement Awards). The competition is keen, and the champions represent the state's finest scholastic journalism. The ILPC only places the top three entries in each category in the IAAs.

 Recently announced, the following lists the Channing winners for the 2009 yearbook.

• Theme Selection & Development: 2nd – Kim Gambrell and Mackenzie McLain
• Caption writing: 3rd – Carla Zumdio, Allyson Ford, Kim Gambrell and Mackenzie McLain
• Headline writing: 3rd - Kim Gambrell and Mackenzie McLain
• Student Life Spread: 2nd -  Mackenzie McLain
• Academic Spread: 2nd – Breanna Hall
• Ad Spread: 1st – Jayda Ramey; 3rd – Andrea Vasquez
• Sidebar Graphic: 3rd – Andrea Vasquez
• Club/organization feature story: 3rd – Kim Gambrell
• Sports Feature Photo: 2nd – Breanna Hall
• Academic Photo: 1st – Breana Burch; 2nd – Andrea Vasquez
• Student Life Photo: 1st – Mackenzie McLain
• Club photo: 3rd – Danae Parman
• Portrait: 2nd – Wesley Darcy; 3rd – Mackenzie McLain

Most of this year’s staff will be attending the ILPC Spring Convention April 10-11 in Austin. Students will have the opportunity to attend more than 100 sessions on everything from new media to yearbook trends to broadcasting to photojournalism.

The Newspaper IAAs results are expected in approximately 4 weeks.