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KHS Publications and Students are Award Winners at Spring Journalism Conference
March 16, 2010
The Kirkwood Call newspaper and Pioneer yearbook were recognized and 25 Kirkwood High School journalism students won awards at the Sponsors of Student Publications (SSP) Spring Conference at Webster University, March 8. Students on Call and Pioneer staffs competed against more than 550 students from 33 Missouri high schools and won several awards including the overall award winners listed below:
•The Kirkwood Call - Superior in the Overall Newspaper Contest
•thekirkwoodcall.com - Honorable Mention in Overall online Publication
•Pioneer - Superior in the Overall Yearbook Contest
KHS Journalism Student is selected for Scholastic Press Student Partners Group
March 16, 2010
Kirkwood High School senior Joseph Weber, who is a features writer for The Kirkwood Call student newspaper, is one of eight high school journalism students worldwide selected to be part of a new student group called Scholastic Press Student Partners. The students, who were chosen from applications submitted to the Journalism Education Association’s Scholastic Press Rights Commission (SPRC), represent schools from Arizona, California, Indiana, Minnesota, Missouri, Pennsylvania, and Seoul, Korea.
The SPRC created Student Partners as a way to help students connect with their peers to support, protect and spread awareness about the First Amendment via Facebook and Twitter. Although the group has already held meetings over the web, it plans to launch nationally April 15-18 at the Journalism Education Association/National Scholastic Press Association Convention in Portland, Ore.
The essays of all eight Student Partners can be found at the following link to the Center For Scholastic Journalism Blog: http://csjblog.org/?p=322. For more information about the Scholastic Press Rights Commission, visit www.jeapressrights.org.
KHS Students participate in Youth In Government Convention with Support from Kirkwood Evening Optimists Club
March 11, 2010
More than 40 Kirkwood High School students participated in this year's Youth in Government (YIG) state convention in Jefferson City where they earned several honors. They were led by Kirkwood YIG officers Mackenzie Becker, Taylor Hunt, Angela Seeley, Caroline Curran, and Sam Wolter. Social studies teachers Steve Platte and Peter Stragand serve as YIG club sponsors.
YIG is a YMCA sponsored program that creates a mock state government experience for high school students. During the convention, students literally take over the State Capitol and participate in one of the three branches of state government: legislative, judicial or executive.
According to Platte, this year the Kirkwood YIG club received support from the KHS Student Council to defray some of the expense, but the delegation was still short several hundred dollars to support their participation in the state convention. “Officers Mackenzie Becker and Caroline Curran approached the Kirkwood Evening Optimist Club to ask for help,” says Platte. “President Greg Hilleren's response was simply, ‘How much do you need?’ and the Evening Optimist Club, without hesitation, provided the Youth in Government program a check to cover the shortfall. It is because of this generosity that our entire Kirkwood delegation of students was able to participate at this year's convention,” says Platte.
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