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Everyone on your staff becomes a member for one full year (starting from the date the membership application is received) and can enjoy these benefits:

• Eligibility to enter the prestigious Pacemaker competitions for newspapers, yearbooks, magazines, newspaper Web sites, interactive (CD/DVD) yearbooks and broadcast programs. First given in 1927, it is high school journalism's oldest and most prestigious prize for excellence in publications.
• Eligibility for staff members to compete for national honors in Individual Awards contests: Story of the Year, Design of the Year, Picture of the Year and Cartooning awards. Some of these contests include cash or other prizes provided by their co-sponsors. Winners are honored at the annual fall National High School Journalism Convention.
• Reduced registration fees for the spring and fall National High School Journalism Conventions held in conjunction with the Journalism Education Association.
• Best of the High School Press, now including a CD-ROM supplement. Students and teachers love to study this full-color, annual showcase of award-winning student work. Teachers will find the CD-ROM version, with JPEG files of all the examples from the printed book, to be a useful resource. Mailed to members each fall.
• Eligibility to enroll students in NSPA's Journalism Honor Roll, an annual listing of student journalists who have achieved high academic honors and contributed to student media at their school. They are listed in Best of the High School Press and given a certificate.
• Opportunities to win scholarships and fellowships awarded by NSPA, including several available to seniors who qualify for the Journalism Honor Roll, and the Wikoff Scholarship for Editorial Leadership. Teachers can apply for the H.L. Hall and Melinda Foys Journalism Fellowships to help further their education in journalism.
• Access to the NSPA Web site, including discussion forums, links to student press headlines and the new NSPA View gallery of current student work by our members. Be sure to supply us with a permanent publication or adviser e-mail address on your membership form for regular e-mail updates.
• NSPA's Sourcebook, a pocket-sized directory of resources for the student press, including Web links.
• Certificate of membership, press cards and a copy of the NSPA logo for reproduction in your masthead. Show your professional affiliation by displaying the NSPA insignia.
• Reduced registration fees for the NSPA Summer Journalism Workshops in Minneapolis, and eligibility for scholarships to attend.

Level Two members get all the benefits given to Level One, plus the following:

• End-of-the-year publication critique (newspaper, newsmagazine, yearbook and literary magazine) in an NSPA guidebook and an honor rating certificate. The highest achievement is the prestigious All American honor rating.
• Eligbility for the NSPA All American Hall of Fame for those who earn a string of 10 All American ratings in an 11-year span. Inductees receive a plaque and have the name of their publication and school engraved on a master plaque which travels to the national conventions and hangs in the NSPA offices, immortalizing your achievement.

NSPA offers memberships to junior high and middle school publications at a reduced rate of $59. For an additional $40 you will receive the publication critique service and eligibility for All American honors.

Student television broadcast programs can now join NSPA at the reduced rate of $69. Broadcast members are eligible for the Pacemaker, Broadcast Story of the Year and convention Best of Show competitions, can enroll qualified students in the Journalism Honor Roll and can get reduced registration fees at annual conventions. Broadcast members will also receive an exclusive DVD compilation of winning broadcasts and clips from several of NSPA's contests.

NSPA helps your staff improve Evaluations Publication critiques are a valuable teaching tool for both the new and veteran adviser or student. Competitions Participation by students in NSPA's national competitions for staffs and individual students promotes intellectual growth, academic excellence and a healthy, competitive spirit. Honors Receiving an All American rating, a Pacemaker or other national award boosts staff morale, builds self-esteem, fosters pride in the school and helps recruit new staff members. Networking with peers Participating in our Web site discussion forums (or even just browsing) gives you a network of like-minded students and advisers whose ideas and opinions are at your disposal. Exposure to trends Through the annual book, Best of the High School Press and the NSPA View online gallery, students see and learn about the best work being done by their peers throughout the country.

NSPA membership is by publication, not by school or individual. When a publication joins, all student and adviser members of that publication are members for one year.

You can join at any time and your membership will last one full year from the time of payment.

As a member, your staff will be notified of all contests, conventions, workshops and deadlines. If for any reason you do not receive forms and brochures in the mail, please download them from our Web site (look for Form Central in the left column), or contact us to receive them via fax.

NSPA welcomes overseas members. A $20 surcharge should be added to membership for overseas mail service and handling.

The National Scholastic Press Association is a nonprofit organization at the University of Minnesota, serving student media in secondary schools and journalism education programs in the United States and abroad. For more information about us, our organization and what we represent, please browse the rest of our Web site.

The National Association of Secondary School Principals has placed NSPA programs and conventions on the NASSP Advisory List of Contests and Activities for 2007-2008.