One body, mind, writing utensil
Regional journalism results announced
By Shelby Brokaw
March 06, 2008
Just like a human body, a journalism staff has different components that contribute to its well being. There’s newspaper writing, the mouth of the body, yearbook design, the memory compartment of the brain, photography, the eyes of the face, and even teamwork, the heart and the most central organ of the body. Each of these components is portrayed clearly in the Silver Lake High School Journalism staff.
“My favorite aspect of journalism is writing because I like being able to put information about an event and quotes from the people involved in the event into and eye-opening story,” stated sophomore Shelby Kampsen.
“Photography is my favorite aspect of journalism because I really like taking pictures,” pronounced junior Heather Herrmann.
On Feb. 22, Silver Lake Journalism II and Journalism III students were among the hundreds of high schoolers from forty-two different schools, size 3A to 6A, which poured onto the campus of the University of Kansas. They were there to compete at the Kansas Scholastic Press Association Regional Journalism Contest. Silver Lake went up against twenty other schools in their 3A-4A division.
The following eight students qualified to represent Silver Lake at the state level:
Freshman Chloe Austin achieved honorable mention in Newspaper Sports Writing, sophomore Shelby Brokaw attained second in Headline Writing and third in Newspaper Design, sophomore Samie Darling earned honorable mention in Theme/Graphics, junior Heather Herrmann secured second in Yearbook Copy Writing and honorable mention in Feature Writing, sophomore Shelby Kampsen acquired honorable mention in Feature Writing, sophomore Chelsea Reid collected honorable mention in Theme/Graphics, Jessica Schaefer received honorable mention in Cutline Writing, and junior Jessica Stadler captured honorable mention in News Writing.
Other competitors at the regional tournament included Chelsea Anderson, Kayla Augustine, Jerod Barker, Katie Barnes, Karlee Brunner, Kerry Dick, Cortney Immenshuh, Colby Killinger, Autumn Runyan, Lindsay Taylor, and Jenna Yoder.
Video production students in Kansas were unable to compete at the regional level, but may compete at the state tournament, which will be held on May 3, also at KU.
The staff, which took second place at state last year and third place the three years prior, has high expectations for the state competition.
“I hope that as a journalism staff we place at state. I hope we do better than we did last year,” said Herrmann.
For the Silver Lake journalism staff, which will be working as a single unit, “doing better” means taking home the long craved first place state trophy.
