2017 DESIGN CONTEST
GRAND PRIZE
GRAND PRIZE
GRAND PRIZE
Avni Kulkarni
Woodward Academy
College Park, GA
Rebekah Goode-Peoples, adviser
1ST PLACE
Kiana Tibule
Southwest Career & Technical Academy
Las Vegas, NV
Matt LaPorte, adviser
3RD PLACE
Green Valley High School
Henderson, NV
Julie Goldstein, adviser
Shila Sherafat and Daisy Ochoa
HONORABLE MENTION
Tara Bastile
American Heritage School Boca Delray
Delray Beach, FL
Hope Gheorge, adviser
HONORABLE MENTION
TJ Tipparaju
Barrington High School
Barrington, IL
Jolene Heinemann, adviser
HONORABLE MENTION
Hillsborough, NC
Hannah Warren
Cedar Ridge High School
Melinda Barnhardt, adviser
HONORABLE MENTION
Lindsey Christianson
Fivay High School
Hudson, FL
Thomas Kovack, adviser
HONORABLE MENTION
Grassfield High School
Chesapeake, VA
Madeline Warnock
Rachel Goodman
JUDGES
AMY MORGAN
Amy Morgan teaches journalism and advises the student publications at Shawnee Mission West High School in Overland Park, Kansas. She is a frequent workshop and convention presenter. She is the secretary of the Kansas Scholastic Press Association executive board and has also served on the board for the Journalism Educators of Metropolitan Kansas City. She was the local co-chair of the 2010 JEA/NSPA National High School Journalism Convention in Kansas City. She was recognized as the Jackie Engel Award Winner for outstanding advising in Kansas in 2011, and was named a JEA Special Recognition Adviser in 2014. The publications have earned local, state and national recognition over the years.
MARY PATRICK
Mary Patrick is the retired adviser for the Maize South Middle Stampede yearbook. The Stampede has won numerous CSPA Gold and Silver Crowns, NSPA Pacemakers, KSPA AllKansas awards, and is a member of the NSPA Journalism Hall of Fame. A former JEA board member, Patrick has been the recipient of the JEA Distinguished Adviser and Lifetime Achievement Awards and the NSPA Pioneer Award. She also has been very active in promoting middle journalism in Kansas through her work with KSPA, and teaches middle and high school workshops.
LINDA DRAKE
Linda Drake, MJE, has advised the yearbook for 36 years, the newspaper for 22 years and the publications website for three years at Chase County Jr./Sr. High School in Cottonwood Falls, Kansas. Drake received the Kansas Associated Collegiate Press Engel Award in 1999 and was inducted into the Kansas Scholastic Press Hall of Fame in 2009. She has received both the Special Recognition and Distinguished Adviser awards from the Dow Jones Newspaper Fund. She has been honored with the Columbia Scholastic Press Association’s Gold Key Award and the National Scholastic Press Association’s Pioneer Award as well as the Journalism Education Association’s Teacher Inspiration Award and the Medal of Merit Award. In 2008, Drake was named the JEA National Yearbook Adviser of the Year. Drake is currently serving on the JEA Awards Committee.