Nov. 11, 2201

National Scholastic Press Association salutes the winners of its 2021 COVID-19 Coverage competition.

Winners of NSPA Individual Awards, plus NSPA Pacemaker Awards in Broadcast, Newspaper/Newsmagazine and Specialty Magazine, were announced during the JEA/NSPA Fall National High School Journalism Convention on Nov. 11, 2021, in a virtual awards ceremony.

First
“The Covid Kids”
Caroline Kady
The North Star
Naperville North High School
Naperville, Illinois

Second
“A COVID-19 year in the life at Mac”
Alice Scott, Kate Boyle, Anna McClellan, Grace Nugent
The Shield Online
McCallum High School
Austin, Texas

Third
“Keeping the Arts Alive”
Jackson McAfee
Lakeside TV
Lakeside High School
Hot Springs, Arkansas

Fourth
“Students Adopt Pets in Quarantine”
Cassie Sun
MHSNews
Marquette High School
Chesterfield, Missouri

Fifth
“McLean High School students return to in-person learning”
Marina Qu
WMHS News
McLean High School
McLean, Virginia

Honorable Mention
“Pet adoption during quarantine”
Jason Goldie
InFocus
Palo Alto High School
Palo Alto, California

Honorable Mention
“Online Learning”
Lincoln Roch, Macey Austin
KYOT
Monarch High School
Louisville, Colorado

Honorable Mention
“Teaching Through Live History:
A roundtable discussion with MFS history teachers”
Rebecca Benjamin
MFS WordsWorth
Moorestown Friends School
Moorestown, New Jersey

Honorable Mention
“COVID 19 and Grades”
Carrena Spann, Deim Gannaban
RNE-TV
Richland Northeast High School
Columbia, South Carolina

Honorable Mention
“Views on Vaccines”
Eema Willis, Ava Caballero-Romo
Hawk TV
Hebron High School
Carrollton, Texas

First
“A Return to Normal”
Mia Hilkowitz
Spark
Lakota East High School
Liberty Township, Ohio

Second
“Student exhausted by Zoom, family responsibilities”
Lynda Sambrano
Tribe Tribune
Fullerton Union High School
Fullerton, California

Third
“New Way of Nursing”
Campbell Wood
The Harbinger
Shawnee Mission East High School
Prairie Village, Kansas

Fourth
“Officials Quarantine Students After First COIVD-19 Case”
Jordyn Folsom, McKenzie Canton
The Rider Online
Legacy High School
Mansfield, Texas

Fifth
“On call: students, siblings and learning online”
Kailey Gee
West Side Story
Iowa City West High School
Iowa City, Iowa

Honorable Mention
“Silver lining: special education adapts to virtual learning”
Dana Richie, Elena Hubert, Anna Fedorova
The Southerner
Midtown High School
Atlanta, Georgia

Honorable Mention
“Parents protest in-person delays despite updates from administration”
Nicky Edwards-Levin
U-High Midway
University of Chicago Laboratory High School
Chicago, Illinois

Honorable Mention
“The Reality of Cheating in Virtual Classes”
Anika Raina
Drops of Ink
Libertyville High School
Libertyville, Illinois

Honorable Mention
“Working Students Reflect on Their Roles Keeping Communities Running Through the Pandemic”
Mary Loeb
The La Salle Falconer
La Salle Catholic College Preparatory
Milwaukie, Oregon

Honorable Mention
“FCPS plans to bring all students back by Jan. 26”
Maya Amman, Marina Qu
The Highlander
McLean High School
McLean, Virginia

First
“Chicago’s Latinx communities face unique challenges combating pandemic”
Ella Beiser
U-High Midway
University of Chicago Laboratory High School
Chicago, Illinois

Second
“Safety In Numbers”
Natalie Mazey
Spark
Lakota East High School
Liberty Township, Ohio

Third
“The Covid-19 Gap”
Sim Khanuja
The Kirkwood Call
Kirkwood High School
Kirkwood, Missouri

Fourth
“Life as a teenage essential worker”
Lucy Marco
The Shield
McCallum High School
Austin, Texas

Fifth
“Going the extra 6 feet”
Julia Franco
Featherduster
Westlake High School
Austin, Texas

Honorable Mention
“The mental health pandemic:
Reopening and high school campuses amidst a rise in COVID-19”
Catherine Chu, Haley Pflasterer
The Oracle
Gunn High School
Palo Alto, California

Honorable Mention
“On the frontlines of food”
Carolyn Jewett, Kate Muldoon, Evie Cuffaro
The Mix
Monarch High School
Louisville, Colorado

Honorable Mention
“One Year of Covid19: Where are we now?”
Emme Perencevich
The Little Hawk
Iowa City High School
Iowa City, Iowa

Honorable Mention
“The Mental Mixup”
Emily Moser, Erin Reece, Mitri Krishna
The Express
Blue Valley Northwest High School
Overland Park, Kansas

Honorable Mention
“Behind the Mask”
Gillian Knowles, Nistha Neupane
The Edge
Pleasant Grove High School
Texarkana, Texas

First
“Masked Up”
Hannah Ford, Mary Breau, Ella Hutnik
Horizon
Blue Valley Northwest High School
Overland Park, Kansas

Second
“In the Digital Classroom”
Isabel Chen, Rachael Kim, Marian Qian
Techniques
Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology
Alexandria, Virginia

Third
“COVID-19”
Lauren Harrell
Indian
Shawnee Mission North High School
Overland Park, Kansas

Fourth
“Put to the Test”
Alex Behn, Lillian Farrand, Carolyn Heckle, Sylvia Maxwell, Aiden Roth
Tesserae
Corning-Painted Post High School
Corning, New York

Fifth
“Vax Fax”
Natalie Walsh, Anna Baranowski
Odyssey
Francis Howell Central High School
Cottleville, Missouri

Honorable Mention
“COVID-19 Diagnosis”
Cerasela Hanseter, Alanna Jimenez
El Corazón
El Camino Real Charter High School
Woodland Hills, California

Honorable Mention
“This is how we live now”
Jespyn Bishop, Madison Ruser, Zoey Stanley, Jenaya Ripko, Tiffany Quarles
Reflections
Brighton High School
Brighton, Colorado

Honorable Mention
“Infectious Effects”
Jordie Block, Allison Gomez
Etruscan
Glenbrook South High School
Glenview, Illinois

Honorable Mention
“Calling the Shots”
Grace Manion
Pioneer
Kirkwood High School
Kirkwood, Missouri

Honorable Mention
“If COVID Only Knew”
Cara Hudson
Kodiak
Bridgeland High School
Cypress, Texas