Mike Chapin
Community and Alumni
Relations Director
Phone: 630-301-5044
Cell: 630-849-3798
Fax: 630-844-5710
e-mail: mchapin@sd129.org
WEST HIGH STUDENT WINS AWARD IN STATE
JOURNALISM CONTEST
Aurora High School junior
Ariel Johnson took home the sixth-place award in yearbook theme
development at the IHSA Journalism state competition April 29 at Eastern
Illinois University.
In its inaugural year, the IHSA competition presented awards to the six
highest scoring participants as state winners. Johnson and her 23
competitors all had qualified through regional competition. In the state
finals, they were given 90 minutes to design a yearbook cover, theme
page and connections to divisional pages (sports, people and events)
from a prompt given to them by the contest judges.
Two other West yearbook students also competed in the state finals.
Jessica Lobdell took ninth in the state in feature writing, and Orion
Deligiannis took seventh in photography.
“I am excited for Ariel,” says Kim Dirck, yearbook adviser and English
teacher. “She is an honors student and a great person all around. And I
am so proud of all three of them. Next year will be our year to win
big.”
West Aurora High School yearbook staffers Orion Deligiannis, Jessica
Lobdell and Ariel Johnson competed at state-level competition in the
Illinois High School Association’s first-ever journalism competition. |
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