Harker’s journalism department recently received 10 Gold Circle Awards from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association, which also named the Winged Post a finalist for the Crown Award, the winners of which will be announced in March.
Gold Circle winners were: Elisabeth Siegel, grade 12, third place in Newspaper News Features; Shay Lari-Hosain, grade 12, third place in Newspaper Art/Illustration: Portfolio of Work, first place in Newspaper Typography: Overall Look, second place in Newspaper Typography: Look of One Page and second place in Digital Media Personal Opinion; Kacey Fang ’15, second place in Newspaper Informational Graphics and Newspaper Photo Layout: Full Page; Kathryn Duan, grade 11, and Alex Jang ’15, third place in Digital Media Humor; Jessica Chang ’15 and Priscilla Pan ’15, first and third place in Digital Media Video Feature Package.
Certificates of Merit went to juniors Ria Gandhi and Alex Youn in Newspaper Sports Features; Shay Lari-Hosain, Kshithija Mulam, grade 11, and Meilan Steimle, grade 11, in Newspaper Photo Story; Shay Lari-Hosain in Newspaper Photo Illustration; and Kacey Fang in Newspaper Informational Graphics. Go Journalism Eagles!
Alex Youn, grade 10, was selected by the Asian American Journalists Association to attend JCamp, a six-day multicultural journalism-training program. He is one of only 42 high school students selected nationwide.
“JCamp is a fantastic opportunity for some of the brightest young journalists from across the country to work together and learn from the best teachers in a facility that rivals the biggest newsrooms in the nation,” said Al Tims, director of the University of Minnesota School of Journalism & Mass Communication, which will host the camp.
Nearly 600 students have graduated from JCamp since 2001. “2015 will mark the 15th anniversary of JCamp and I am extremely proud of AAJA for building a sustainable pipeline of young talent into journalism,” said Paul Cheung, AAJA national president and director of interactive and digital news production for the Associated Press. “Over the past 15 years, we have seen our students grow and now work at major media outlets like The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, ABC, CNN, The Washington Post and more.” Read more: https://sg.finance.yahoo.com/news/aaja-selects-talented-students-jcamp-192109890.html
Harker students participated in the 2015 National French Contest, which tests listening and reading comprehension, vocabulary and grammar, with résultats joyeuses! “
Honorable Mentions: Shreya Neogi, grade 10; Alexandra Dellar, Zarek Drozda, Shannon Hong, Emma Sayiner and Esther Wang, all grade 11.
Bronze Medals: Michael Tseitlin, grade 10; Richard Yi, grade 11.
Silver Medals: Hazal Gurcan, Anika Jain, Pooja Kini, all grade 10; Victoria Ding, Selin Ozcelik and Samali Sahoo, all grade 11.
Gold Medals: Lavinia Ding, Divya Rajasekharan, Andrew Rule, Andrew Tierno, Tiffany Zhu, all grade 10; Daphne Yang grade 11.
“Students were placed in different categories according to their level and exposure to the language,” explained Galina Tchourilova, upper school French teacher. Allez les aigles Français!