Novi High Students Claim 61 Awards at Journalism Event

From NCSD: Novi High School took home plenty of awards from the Michigan Interscholastic Press Association’s Spring Awards held at the Lansing Center on April 18. Novi students in the journalism/media arts programs earned 61 individual awards, including six first-place finishes.The MIPA rewards high school students for works in school newspapers, TV broadcast news and yearbook. Novi received awards in all three categories for Reflections (yearbook), The Wildcat Roar (newspaper), and Cat’s Eye News (in-house TV broadcast).

The MIPA spring awards recognize some work from the 2015-16 school year as newspaper copy from as far back as March 2016 could be submitted. Yearbook evaluations are also from the 2015-16 school year.Novi claimed first-place honors for yearbook (Caption Writing, Individual Advertisement, Sports Feature Photo) and newspaper (Illustration, Feature Columnist, and Diversity Coverage).

Novi graduate Maddie Eiler, now a freshman at Taylor University, received 13 awards, including first place for Individual Advertisement in Reflections, the school’s 284-page yearbook. She also picked up first-place honors, along with Autumn Nicholson, Lizzie Eiler and Nama Naseem, for Yearbook Caption Writing.Other first-place awards went to Lizzie Eiler (Sports Feature Photo-yearbook), Rebecca Kemski (Illustration, newspaper) and Alaina Agnello (Feature Columnist, newspaper, and Diversity Coverage, newspaper).In total, 17 Novi students received more than one award and eight earned more than two awards, including Agnello (four), Dan Netter (four), Britani Chin (four), Autumn Nicholson (four), Lizzie Eiler (three), Katherine Khosrovaneh, and Rachel Casaccia (three).

Founded in 1921 and housed in the Michigan State University School of Journalism, the MIPA is a nonprofit organization composed of scholastic journalism teachers and publications advisers and their students.This year there were 4,290 contest entries, which was an 11 percent drop from three years ago.

Congratulations to the following Novi High School students and recent graduates:

CAT’S EYE NEWS (TV Broadcast)

• SECOND PLACE: Public Service Announcement (Emily Barnes).
• THIRD PLACE: Commercial (Noah Canales, Jake Nelson, Drew O’Connor) and Studio Talent (Renee Boudreau).
• HONORABLE MENTION: Human Interest Feature (Renee Boudreau, Anna Mizerowski); Human Interest Feature (Emily Barnes); Sports Feature Story/Package (Darin Baydoun, Edward Seo); Non-Animated Opener (Eric Mazza); Short Film-Fiction (Shannon Murphy, Beverly Lickteig); Short Film-Fiction (Edmund Shaheen); and Studio Talent (Shannon Murphy).

REFLECTIONS (Yearbook)

• FIRST PLACE: Caption Writing (Maddie Eiler, Autumn Nicholson, Lizzie Eiler and Nama Naseem); Individual Advertisement-Proud Parent: (Maddie Eiler); and Sports Feature Photo (Lizzie Eiler).
• SECOND PLACE: Sports Action Photo (Maddie Eiler) and Academic Photo (Kaitlyn Kotcher).
• THIRD PLACE: Student Life Spread (Maddie Eiler and Autumn Nicholson); Sports Action Photo (Fyn Kobelt); Academic Photo (Maddie Eiler); and Feature Presentation (Nama Naseem).
• HONORABLE MENTION: Sports Feature Photo (Dakayla Mellon); Sports Feature Writing (Rachel Cassacia); Academic Writing (Cecilia Hong); Academic Writing (Lizzie Eiler); Personality Profile (Cecilia Hong); Personality Profile (Katrina McCarthy); Sidebar Coverage (Maddie Eiler); Sidebar Coverage (Maddie Eiler); Student Life Spread (Maddie Eiler); Sports Spread (Autumn Nicholson, Rachel Casaccia); Organization Spread (Britani Chin, Ellie MacKay, Autumn Nicholson); Organization Spread (Rachel Casaccia); People Spread (Ariana Herta, Maddie Eiler); Individual Advertisement-Business (Maddie Eiler); and Graphics (Maddie Eiler).

THE WILDCAT ROAR (Newspaper)

• FIRST PLACE: Illustration (Rebecca Kemski); Feature Columnist (Alaina Agnello); and Diversity Coverage (Alaina Agnello).
• SECOND PLACE: Story Package (Rachel Miller); Sports Action Photo (Alexa Cotter); Sports Feature Photo (Addison Lentz); News Analysis (Dan Netter); and Human Interest Feature (Melanie Howarth).
• THIRD PLACE: Illustration (Rebecca Kemski); News/Feature Photo (Britani Chin); Environmental Portrait (Maddie Eiler); and Sports News Story (Addison Lentz).
• HONORABLE MENTION: Information Graphic (Katherine Khosrovaneh, Britani Chin); Front Page/Newsmagazine Style (Staff); Front Page/Newspaper Style (Alaina Agnello, Dan Netter); Editorial Opinion Page/Spread (Katherine Khosrovaneh); Feature Page/Spread (Katherine Khosrovaneh, Reika Fujiwara); Sports Action Photo (Dan Netter); News/Feature Photo (Britani Chin); Environmental Portrait (Maddie Eiler); News Analysis (Alaina Agnello, Dan Netter); Bylined Opinion Article (Jessica Paul); Human Interest Feature (Rachel Miller); Personality Profile (Maria Elkin); Personality Profile (Sheily Shah); Environmental, Health or Science (Melanie Howarth); and Alternative Story Form (Cecile Baeza).Names in italics are 2016 NHS graduates.

Photo courtesy of NCSD (Novi seniors (left to right) Rebecca Kemski, Alaina Agnello and Lizzie Eiler hold editions of their first-place work from the Michigan Interscholastic Press Association’s Spring Awards held in April. (Photo by Bill Roose/NCSD))