Indiana high school students earned scores of honors in the Woman’s Press Club of Indiana contest conducted earlier this year. All of the first place winners will compete at the national level, where winners will be announced at the National Federation of Press Women conference in September.
Here are the results:
Editorial
- First: Sian Rhodes, Bishop Chatard High School, Indianapolis
- Second: Rebecca Qin and Rachael Tan, Carmel High School, Carmel
- Third: Bethlehem Daniel, Carmel High School, Carmel
- Honorable mention: Chloe Antonio, Ben Davis High School, Indianapolis
Opinion
- First: Tanis Henry, Perry Meridian High School, Indianapolis
- Second: Abbagail Speitel, Ben Davis High School, Indianapolis
- Third: Manahil Nadeem, Carmel High School, Carmel; Ari Houston, Perry Meridian High School, Indianapolis
- Honorable mention: Sam Cook, Perry Meridian High School, Indianapolis
News
- First: Chester Bryant and Emma Davidson, Perry Meridian High School, Indianapolis
- Second: Erica Irish, Hannah Gunnell, Chester Bryant, Perry Meridian High School, Indianapolis
- Third: Patrick Carper and Emma Davidson, Perry Meridian High School, Indianapolis
- Honorable mention: Jacob deCastro, Bishop Chatard High School, Indianapolis; Armaan Goel, Carmel High School, Carmel; Vincent Rowland, Perry Meridian High School, Indianapolis
Feature
- First: Emma Davidson, Perry Meridian High School, Indianapolis
- Second: Abby Beaumont, Nicole Thomas, Ryan Eggers, Reeya Patel, Ben Davis High School, Indianapolis; Emma Davidson, Perry Meridian High School, Indianapolis
- Third: Jessica Konrad, Carmel High School, Carmel; Patrick Carper, Lexie Julbert, Perry Meridian High School, Indianapolis
- Honorable mention: Bri Hendrix, Perry Meridian High School, Indianapolis; Chad Smith, Southport High School, Indianapolis; Jaycee Fitzgerald, Southport High School, Indianapolis
Sports
- First: Sian Rhodes, Kacee Haslett, Marissa Almack, Abby McDonald, Jacob deCastro, Bishop Chatard High School, Indianapolis
- Second: Jessica Canaley, Kelly Truax, Carmel High School, Carmel
- Third: Ben Traylor, Jessica Canaley, Carmel High School, Carmel
- Honorable mention: Kelly Truax, Carmel High School, Carmel; Chester Bryant, Perry Meridian High School, Indianapolis
Columns and blogs
- First: Ryan Eggers, Ben Davis High School, Indianapolis
- Second: Ian Haggerty, Perry Meridian High School, Indianapolis
News/feature photo
- First: Selena Liu, Carmel High School, Carmel
- Second: Michaela Kelley, Ben Davis High School, Indianapolis
- Third: Madeline Steward, Southport High School, Indianapolis
Sports photo
- First: Elliot Choy, Carmel High School, Carmel
- Second: Grace Zhang, Carmel High School, Carmel
- Third: Kelsey Atcheson, Carmel High School, Carmel
- Honorable mention: Elliot Choy, Carmel High School, Carmel
Cartooning
- First: Alauren Harris, Ben Davis High School, Indianapolis
- Second: Alyssa Toner, Ben Davis High School, Indianapolis
- Third: Rachael Tan, Carmel High School, Carmel
Review
- First: Madelyn Knight, Southport High School, Indianapolis
- Second: Lin-Lin Mo and Lilly St. Angelo, Carmel High School, Carmel
Graphics/photo illustration
- First: Chelsea Dai, Carmel High School, Indianapolis
- Second: Chelsea Dai, Carmel High School, Carmel
- Third: Kelsey Atcheson and Agrayan Gupta, Carmel High School, Carmel
- Honorable mention: Emily Hales, Columbus East High School, Columbus
Single page layout
- First: Andrew Tapp, Southport High School, Indianapolis
- Second: Lilly St. Angelo, Carmel High School, Carmel
- Third: Nicole Thomas and Ryan Eggers, Ben Davis High School, Indianapolis; Kelsey Atcheson and Agrayan Gupta, Carmel High School, Carmel; Chloe Meredith, Southport High School, Indianapolis
- Honorable mention: Ryan Eggers and Cory Vervynckt, Ben Davis High School, Indianapolis
Double-truck layout
- First: Lilly St. Angelo, Carmel High School, Carmel
- Second: Adam Gostomelsky, Carmel High School, Carmel
- Third: Jessica Mo, Carmel High School, Carmel
- Honorable mention: Nicole Thomas and Mira Squire-Wiley, Ben Davis High School, Indianapolis; Ian Haggerty and Patrick Carper, Perry Meridian High School, Indianapolis
Video news story
- Second: Makayla Melton, Ben Davis High School, Indianapolis
Yearbook photo
- First: Elliott DeRose, Noblesville High School, Noblesville
- Second: Elliott DeRose, Noblesville High School, Noblesville
- Third: Hannah Perry, Noblesville High School, Noblesville; Elliott DeRose, Noblesville High School, Noblesville
- Honorable mention: Hannah Perry, Noblesville High School, Noblesville; Anna-Marie Carver, Noblesville High School, Noblesville
Yearbook layout
- First: Alexis Hawley, Noblesville High School, Noblesville
- Second: Alexis Hawley, Noblesville High School, Noblesville
- Third: Mackenzie Lowe, Noblesville High School, Noblesville; Brooke Gigante, Noblesville High School, Noblesville
- Honorable mention: Mackenzie Lowe, Noblesville High School, Noblesville; Elliott DeRose, Noblesville High School, Noblesville
Yearbook copywriting
- First: Viven Mickels, Noblesville High School, Noblesville
- Second: Jadelyn Eaton, Noblesville High School, Noblesville
- Third: Logan Bales, Noblesville High School, Noblesville
See the judges’ remarks about the winners’ work.
