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3:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 4, awards ceremony
Winners announced —
Individual Awards
Broadcast Pacemaker
Newspaper/Newsmagazine Pacemaker
Specialty Magazine Pacemaker
Best of Show

Best of Show
Schools and students attending the convention are eligible. Categories, rules and entry deadlines will be announced on the convention site.

Spring Pacemakers
Pacemakers in Innovation, Literary Arts Magazine, Online and Yearbook will be presented at the Kansas City, Missouri, convention, April 4-6, 2024.

Newspaper Front Page

Erik Feng, Holden Lee, Jerry Xia
The Campanile, Palo Alto High School, Palo Alto, California
The verdict is in

Garrett Xu
The Octagon, Sacramento Country Day School, Sacramento, California
Shelter animals desperately need forever homes

Peyton Moore
The Harbinger, Shawnee Mission East High School, Prairie Village, Kansas
The Heroes Among Us

Staff Writers
The Huron Emery, Huron High School, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Battling food insucurity: A2 and everywhere

Charlotte Baxter, Aseel Ibrahim, Emory Robinson
Tribal Tribune, Wando High School, Mount Pleasant, South Carolina
Addicted to the Buzz

Aseel Ibrahim, Livi Ralston, Emory Robinson
Tribal Tribune, Wando High School, Mount Pleasant, South Carolina
The Sound of Silence

Morgan Chow
The ReMarker, St. Mark’s School of Texas, Dallas, Texas
It’s writing the future

Morgan Chow
The ReMarker, St. Mark’s School of Texas, Dallas, Texas
The Culture of Consent

Alice Xu
The Review, St. John’s School, Houston, Texas
The Struggle to Conform

Braylen Garren, Reese Langdon
Tiger Times, Texas High School, Texarkana, Texas
Rich in Culture

Newspaper Page/Spread

Nicole Pimenta Innecco, Erin Loh, Gabriela Salazar
The Epitaph, Homestead High School, Cupertino, California
In a world of parents & kids 

Amber Birrell, Anderson Picone, Annabelle Yip
The Epitaph, Homestead High School, Cupertino, California
Creating cultural connections

Nadia Knoblauch
The Blueprint, Hagerty High School, Oviedo, Florida
Let’s be real

Clare O’Connor
U-High Midway, University of Chicago Laboratory High School, Chicago, Illinois
Falling into the Manosphere Pipeline

Ellie Erlich, Emma Hirsch, Rana Khan, Alyssa Sanchez
Torch, Glenbrook North High School, Northbrook, Illinois
MicroAGGRESSIONS

Francesca Stamati
The Harbinger, Shawnee Mission East High School, Prairie Village, Kansas
What’s At Stake?

Carmela Cadja
Zephyrus, Edina High School, Edina, Minnesota
Our colors are green, white, and yellow, but just how green is Edina?

Elisabeth  Siegel
Eagle Edition, Episcopal School of Dallas, Dallas, Texas
Battle of the bagels

Georgia Andrews, Diane Guo, Serina Yan
The Review, St. John’s School, Houston, Texas
What’s love got to do with it?

Anna Bell Lee
Tiger Times, Texas High School, Texarkana, Texas
On their mark… Get set… Go 

Newsmagazine Cover

Meena Narayanaswami, Jonas Pao, Yash Shetty, Melody Xu
Verde, Palo Alto High School, Palo Alto, California
Who’s Writing Your Essay?

Amanda Castillo-Lopez, Alex Gribb, Carly Philpott, Katya Roudakov
The Union St. Journal, Cherry Creek High School, Greenwood Village, Colorado
The Breaking Point

Haiden Kenney, Daniela Peñafiel 
The Muse, Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts, West Palm Beach, Florida
Overcommitted, Under Accepted

Kaitlyn Mitchell
Drops of Ink, Libertyville High School, Libertyville, Illinois
Identity

Emma Tyulyayev
Messenger, Marquette High School, Chesterfield, Missouri
The Era of Artificial Intelligence

Olivia Hu, Erica Shi
Panorama, Ladue Horton Watkins High School, St. Louis, Missouri
The Teen Issue

Samantha Haney, Sonya Sud
The Lancer Feed, Lafayette High School, Wildwood, Missouri
“There is no old life left…”

Evie Barnard
The Shield, McCallum High School, Austin, Texas
Facing the fentanyl crisis

Alex Thornfelt
The Marquee, Marcus High School, Flower Mound, Texas
Suffering in Silence

Makda Bekele, Zakareya Hamed
The Highlander, McLean High School, McLean, Virginia
Color Blind

Newsmagazine Page/Spread

Sameer Maheshwari, Gauri Manoj, Darpan Singh
El Estoque, Monta Vista High School, Cupertino, California
To Ye or not to Ye

Cassiopeia Le
The Flash, Rocklin High School, Rocklin, California
Life is Strange

Amanda Castillo-Lopez, Wryn Duepre, Nick Rui, Marie Webster, Vee Williamson
The Union St. Journal, Cherry Creek High School, Greenwood Village, Colorado
African American History Courses Debut in CCSD

Maeby Aleo, Cas East, David Maxwell, Clay Mustoe, Mars Smith
The Mix, Monarch High School, Louisville, Colorado
Alleviate the pain

Daniela Peñafiel
The Muse, Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts, West Palm Beach, Florida
Overcommitted, Under Accepted

Erinn Varga
West Side Story, Iowa City West High School, Iowa City, Iowa
Art-ificial Art

Maya Copaken, Noel Mohamed
The Patriot, Shawnee Mission South High School, Overland Park, Kansas
Washed Out

Ren Park
The Patriot, Shawnee Mission South High School, Overland Park, Kansas
The Calorie Conundrum

Evie Barnard, Alice Scott
The Shield, McCallum High School, Austin, Texas
What is driving your CO2 emissions?

Dimitar Nedyalkov
The Legend, Flower Mound High School, Flower Mound, Texas
The Poison of Parsociality

Literary/Specialty Magazine Cover

Owen Bittinger, Alex Yan
Viking, Palo Alto High School, Palo Alto, California
California Taking a Gamble

Elizabeth Fetter, Grace Gormley
Viking, Palo Alto High School, Palo Alto, California
The Menstruation Situation

Mia Carrasco
Raider, Gulliver Preparatory School, Pinecrest, Florida
Works in Progress

James Satterfield
Echo, North Springs High School, Sandy Springs, Georgia
Echo “Dream/Second Dream”

Koen Myers
Red & Black, Lawrence High School, Lawrence, Kansas
Graffiti NOW

Rosie Mellor, Ryan Thomas-Palmer
Voice, Community High School, Ann Arbor, Michigan
VOICE Scrabbled

Staff
The Rubicon, St. Paul Academy and Summit School, St. Paul, Minnesota
Allusion

Kate Kaplan
Briars & Ivy, Briarcliff High School, Briarcliff Manor, New York
Imperfections

Margot Pegram
Roars and Whispers, Providence Senior High School, Charlotte, North Carolina
Volume 23

Isaac James
The Talon, Woodberry Forest School, Woodberry Forest, Virginia
Volume 74

Literary/Specialty Magazine Page/Spread

Julia Landy
Artifex, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Parkland, Florida
Savanah Venter

Kaija Gilbertson Hall, Sofia Morales, Antonio Starks
Odyssey, Clarke Central High School, Athens, Georgia
Stand For Me, The Ocean Sinks as the Fish Fly

Ayrianna Sherwood
The Torch, Kennedy High School, Swisher, Iowa
Fashion Forward

Koen Myers
Red & Black, Lawrence High School, Lawrence, Kansas
Seventeen

Koen Myers
Red & Black, Lawrence High School, Lawrence, Kansas
Lost in Thought

Ella Glass, Rosie Mellor
Voice, Community High School, Ann Arbor, Michigan
If Only We Could Breath, Diamond Day

Sophia Bietz
The Rubicon, St. Paul Academy and Summit School, St. Paul, Minnesota
I hope God gives me smile lines you can see from space, on happiness

Annie Zhao
Panorama, Ladue Horton Watkins High School, St. Louis, Missouri
Promise of Future, the wweather like feelings

Audrey Henderson
Roars and Whispers, Providence Senior High School, Charlotte, North Carolina
Overcast

Robbie Brown, Nate Stein
The Talon, Woodberry Forest School, Woodberry Forest, Virginia
Eden

Yearbook Spread

Bria Gilliam
Traditions, Del Norte High School, San Diego, California
All In The Fall

Jaya Castaneda, Gracie Dennis
Summit, Smoky Hill High School, Aurora, Colorado
A Screamin’ Good Time

Gabriella Polliard
Reflections, Brighton High School, Brighton, Colorado
We’re Known for Setting This Par

Alexis Izaguirre, Meghan Shepp
Fusion, Hagerty High School, Oviedo, Florida
Water works

Eliza Allen, Denitera Chapple, Parker Christenson, Caroline Crump, Camry Stanford
Madisonian, Madison High School, Rexburg, Idaho
Air Time

Daniel Chang, Sydney Tyler, Sarina Zhao
U-Highlights, University of Chicago Laboratory High School, Chicago, Illinois
Have you heard?

Payton Cook, Laurel Hansen
Brickhouse, Shawnee Mission North High School, Overland Park, Kansas
Meet Your Pep Exec

Francie Garrison, Ella Yun
Hauberk, Shawnee Mission East High School, Prairie Village, Kansas
After the Disco

Adrian Mruckovski, Cheney Pham
Spirit, Lindbergh High School, St. Louis, Missouri
Made You Remember

Mollie Hemphill, Cassidy Rogers
The Hawk, Pleasant Grove High School, Texarkana, Texas
Stop the clock

Yearbook Theme Package

Staff
Pegasus, Homestead High School, Cupertino, California
Renaissance

Gabriella Polliard, Ellie Rolfs
Reflections, Brighton High School, Brighton, Colorado
And how ‘bout We Find Out

Alexis Izaguirre, Sarena Wilkerson
Fusion, Hagerty High School, Oviedo, Florida
You W!sh

Ava Burke, Chiara Zecchini
Raider, Gulliver Preparatory School, Pinecrest, Florida
This Right Here 

Maison Flory, Maeslyn Hamlin, Emily Hurd, Maya Smith
Red & Black, Lawrence High School, Lawrence, Kansas
Now.

Laurel Hansen, Rylie Peterson
Brickhouse, Shawnee Mission North High School, Overland Park, Kansas
Understood

Marissa Buffon, Katie Burke, Brody Carlson, Danie Eaves, Sydney Jackson
Lair, Shawnee Mission Northwest High School, Shawnee, Kansas
Sounds Like Us

Eavan Abao, Jessica Cabanting, Angelo Cordero, Annie Lin
The Howl, Southwest Career and Technical Academy, Las Vegas, Nevada
Count Us In

Meghan Milligan, Avery Parker, Corinne Price
Lions Roar, Christ Presbyterian Academy, Nashville, Tennessee
This Only Happens Once

Chris Ho, Sophia Kotlyar, Lucy Ma, Celeste Mackin, Payton Ohler
Carillon, Bellaire High School, Houston, Texas
Really

Informational Graphic

Julia Landy
The Eagle Eye, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Parkland, Florida
Off the Big Screen

Laurel Hansen
Brickhouse, Shawnee Mission North High School, Overland Park, Kansas
Bringing it Mahomes

Sandra Fu, Daniel Lee, Rachel Overgaard, Grace Pang
The Huron Emery, Huron High School, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Macaron Madness

Emily Sirtak
Central Focus, Francis Howell Central High School, Cottleville, Missouri
Spring Into Plants

Olivia Chen
Panorama, Ladue Horton Watkins High School, St. Louis, Missouri
Keeping in touch

Adwyta Chelikavada
The Lancer Feed, Lafayette High School, Wildwood, Missouri
Keep It Cool

Angelina Lawlor, Caroline Woo
Invictus, Ward Melville High School, East Setauket, New York
What We Do After School

Angelina Lawlor, Caroline Woo
Invictus, Ward Melville High School, East Setauket, New York
Due at 11:59 pm

Isabella del Nido
The Dispatch, James Bowie High School, Austin, Texas
The Road to Inclusivity

Chris Ho
Carillon, Bellaire High School, Houston, Texas
The Most Important Midterms Aren’t Tests

Illustration

Meggie Chen
El Estoque, Monta Vista High School, Cupertino, California
Curiousity

David Tran
Bear Witness, Branham High School, San Jose, California
Another door opens

Angelyna Rodriguez
The Muse, Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts, West Palm Beach, Florida
Accommodations, Not Advantages

Sofia Oyarzun
The Oracle, Glenbrook South High School, Glenview, Illinois
JUDGEment

Rosie Mellor
Voice, Community High School, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Beneath My Skin

Samantha Haney
The Lancer Feed, Lafayette High School, Wildwood, Missouri
Artifical Intelligence

Sydney Starkey
Tower, The Masters School, Dobbs Ferry, New York
Are we obsolete?

Ella Bobbitt, Drew Clark, Sydney Moore, Logan Reid, Mae Sherrod
CPA Media Studio, Christ Presbyterian Academy, Nashville, Tennessee
Homefullness

Evie Barnard
The Shield, McCallum High School, Austin, Texas
Slipping through our fingers

Evie Barnard
The Shield, McCallum High School, Austin, Texas
The Austin Issue