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Publications Staff Wins Awards in State, National Competition

Publications Staff Wins Awards in State, National Competition
Eleven Sage Hill School journalists won multiple awards in the annual California Press Women’s (CPW) scholastic competition.

Senior cartoonist Lynn Fong received a $100 national first place award for “I Don’t See Race” appearing in The Bolt in August 2016.

This honor came after Fong won first place in the cartooning category at the state level for the same piece.

Also winning a first place at the state level, sophomore Daniel Fishman was honored for his feature/review, “Native Guard: Guarding the Past, Present and Future” a front page story in The Bolt in January.

Other winners included two Honorable Mentions for senior columnist Brett Super, one for “Lord of the Flies” and the second for “Is Andrew Jackson Really That Bad?”

Senior opinion editor Julia Dupuis won second place for her article titled “Trigger Warnings” and artist Lynn Fong received second place for single page layout on that same back page edition of The Bolt for “No Trigger Warnings.”

Senior Christina Acevedo won second place for a feature titled “Quiet Voices in the Classroom.”

Editor-in-chief, senior Vale Lewis, received two awards: an honorable mention for her timely editorial, “Fake News Isn’t Real Journalism,” and and an honorable mention for front page layout for the December 2016 issue of The Bolt.

For the second year in a row, junior videographer Julie Farkas won a video award: an honorable mention for her piece on “Tennis,” which appeared in lightningboltonline.com and will be part of a yearbook feature in the 2017 Storm.

Yearbook awards for the 2016 publication, The Perfect Storm, went to editor-in-chief Namita Prakash (‘16), a second place award for a division page titled “Identify”; second place to senior Sahar Rohani for a science division page photograph titled “Curiosity”; and to Claire Dwyer (‘16) for division page copywriting for “We Were...” an homage to departing seniors on last year’s closing pages.

CPW said they received 526 entries from 32 different print and digital/electronic entries this year.

“If your student won an award, it was well-served,” said Betty Packard, CPW president.

Publications Staff adviser Konnie Krislock, who is retiring at the end of the year, was awed by the journalists' competitive spirit.

“We have won many awards this year, for writing, design and photography, and to prove we can compete with the ‘big boys’ at the state level is a tribute to the type of scholar who chooses to belong to the Sage Hill School Publications Staff,” she said. "At Sage they have lots of choices for after-school activities and to know so many of them select the staff and win awards for their work is thrilling.

“I leave Sage with a happy face,” she said.
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