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

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

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

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

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

Honorable mentions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Honorable mentions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Honorable mentions

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

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

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

First Place
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

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

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

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

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

Honorable mentions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Honorable mentions

Mia Carrasco
Reflections, 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Honorable mentions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Honorable mentions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Honorable mentions

Staff
Pegasus, Homestead High School, Cupertino, California
Renaissance

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Honorable mentions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Honorable mentions

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

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

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

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

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