Troy High Yearbook and Newspaper Receive 2020 MIPA Awards

Today, the Michigan Interscholastic Press Association announced that the Troy High Chariot Newspaper and 2019 Gladiator Yearbook both won “Gold Medal” recognition for the Spartan Awards. The Chariot’s website also received a “Silver” recognition. Individual awards per publication were as follows:

YEARBOOK:

Madelyn Holmes - Student Journalist Staff/Yearbook Design & (Honorable Mention) Yearbook Verbal/Sports Feature Writing

Briana Scillion & Emily Moore - (1st Place) Yearbook Visual/Business Advertisements

Jaclyn Miller - (1st Place) Yearbook Visual/Academic Photo

Sabrina Seldon & Emily Moore - (2nd Place) Yearbook Verbal/Personality Profile

NEWSPAPER:

Kaitlyn Piggott - (1st Place) In-Depth Feature, (1st Place) Personal Narrative, (Honorable Mentions) Front Page Design, Story Package, Personality Profile, Diversity Coverage, and Environmental/Health/Science Writing

Olivia Perron - (1st Place) Front Page Design, (1st Place) Sports Action Photo, (Honorable Mention) Sports Feature Photo

Meriam Meram - (2nd Place) Personality Profile, (Honorable Mention) Online Breaking News Coverage

Murryum Farooqi - (Honorable Mention) Online Breaking News Coverage

Chloe Collins - (3rd Place) Environmental Portrait

Andy DeGrand (Honorable Mention) Informative Feature

Jess Geisler, Olivia Perron & Lola Pinneo - (Honorable Mention) Editorial Opinion Page or Spread

Vanisa Kumar, Gabby DeRose, Lola Pinneo & Emy Galustyan - (Honorable Mention) Editorial Opinion Page or Spread

AJ Kowalak, Ping-Yu Hsu, Kaitlyn Piggot & Olivia Perron - (Honorable Mention) News Page or Spread

The Michigan Interscholastic Press Association is a nonprofit organization composed of scholastic journalism teachers and publications advisers and their students. MIPA is committed to promoting and recognizing excellence in scholastic journalism at all levels through education, training and support of student journalists and their advisers.