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CELEBRATING JOURNALISTIC EXCELLENCE
HAUPPAUGE STUDENTS RECEIVE LONG ISLAND PRESS AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE IN JOURNALISM
Hauppauge High School students won honored at the 2015 Long Island Press High School Journalism Awards Program, which was held at Hofstra University’s John Cranford Playhouse and was attended by hundreds of high school students, faculty and parents from across Long Island. The annual awards competition and gala, now in its eighth year, recognized outstanding high school journalism in print, video and online, including reporting, writing, design, artwork and illustration across more than 100 individual categories.
The following Hauppauge High School students were recognized at the awards ceremony:
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1st Place, Nick Cecchini & Jennifer Hug, Kicks for Cancer
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1st Place, Katie Prudente, Inherit the Wind
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2nd Place, Billy Frielingsdorf, Forest Brooke ALS Ice Bucket Challenge
3rd Place, Derek Semon, Middle School Immigration Day
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3rd Place, Dylan Rice & Dan Nasta, 9/11 Memorial Trip
According to the publication, “with nearly 1,600 entries from more than two dozen high schools throughout Nassau and Suffolk, the 2015 contest was unprecedented in its scope and quality of submissions. Long Island Press staffers spend weeks judging the entries and were impressed by the students’ exceptional depth and caliber of work.”
