Maine Center for Student Journalism High School Newspaper Awards
Contact: Shannon E. Martin, 207-581-1283
ORONO — The Maine Center for Student Journalism hosted the 15th annual High School Newspaper Conference and Contest Awards ceremony Wednesday, April 30, at Donald P. Corbett Business Building on the University of Maine campus in Orono. The gathering included training sessions and the announcement of newspaper contest winners. Eric Russell, graduate of the University of Maine, winner of the 2007 Bob Drake Young Writer Award and staff member at the Bangor Daily News, served as the keynote speaker.
The newspaper contest information was sent to schools across the state in autumn of 2007, and features judging in nine categories. Contest judging was done this year by The Sun Journal newsroom in Lewiston. The winners in each category this year were:
General Excellence: 1st place, Dave Lafortune and Justine Masse, The Roar, Biddeford High School; 2nd place, the staff, The Warrior Call, Nokomis Regional High School; 3rd place, Lydia McOscar, Jennifer Tsang and Morgan Herrell, RamPage, Bangor High School; Honorable Mentions, the staff, Houlton High Times, Houlton High School, and Ramblings, Deering High School.
Feature Writing: 1st place, Julia Butler and Richie Kennedy, The Roar, Biddeford High School; 2nd place, Riley Brayley, Eagle Times, Bonny Eagle High School; 3rd place, Min Hwang, RamPage, Bangor High School.
Editorial and Opinion Writing: 1st place, Kira Pilot, RamPage, Bangor High School; 2nd place, Taylor Gould, The Warrior Call, Nokomis High School, and Chelsea Paul, The Inside, Orono High School; Honorable Mention, Max Rush, Houlton High Times, Houlton High School.
Arts Reviews: 1st place, Taylor Gould, The Warrior Call, Nokomis Regional High School; 2nd place, Kira Pilot, RamPage, Bangor High School, and Anders Nielsen, Ramblings, Deering High School; Honorable Mention, Marielle Fava, WoRD/Times Record, Morse High School.
Layout & Design: 1st place, Jiyeon Kim and Megan Hedrich, Ramblings, Deering High School; 2nd place, The Staff, The Roar, Biddeford High School; 3rd place, The Staff, The Warrior Call, Nokomis Regional High School; Honorable Mention, Lydia McOscar, Jennifer Tsang and Thomas McOscar, RamPage, Bangor High School.
News Writing: 1st place, Maureen Quinn, Ramblings, Deering High School; 2nd place, Kellie Fisher, The Roar, Biddeford High School; 3rd place, Ben Austin and Mandi Bubar, Houlton High Times, Houlton High School; Honorable Mention, Hanna Cyrus, The Inside, Orono High School.
Photography: 1st place, Taylar Donaldson, The Warrior Call, Nokomis Regional High School; 2nd place, Mindy Charest and Richie Kennedy, The Roar, Biddeford High School; 3rd place, Steven Lee, Ramblings, Deering High School, and Sarah Nichols, RamPage, Bangor High School.
Sports Writing: 1st place, Nick Devlin, Ramblings, Deering High School; 2nd place, Nathan Valliere, The Roar, Biddeford High School; 3rd place, Chelsea Allen, WoRD/Times Record, Mt. Ararat High School; Honorable Mention, Ben Austin, Houlton High Times, Houlton High School.
Editorial Cartoon: 1st place, Jayson Chandler, The Warrior Call, Nokomis Regional High School; 2nd place, Mike Howatt, RamPage, Bangor High School, and Abe Carmichael, Houlton High Times, Houlton High School.
The Center was created in 1993 to provide students with an opportunity to work with, speak to and learn from professionals in the field of journalism. Through the annual student journalism conferences and regional roundtables, students and their advisers learn valuable skills to improve their newspapers while also improving themselves.
The Maine Center for Student Journalism is supported through financial assistance of the Maine Daily Newspaper Association and is housed in the Department of Communication and Journalism at The University of Maine, Orono.
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