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Best of Colorado Individual Student Contests 2011

Want to see a spread­sheet with all the win­ners from our first Best of Col­orado com­pe­ti­tion? Down­load the Excel doc­u­ment and then cruise through the seven tabs at the bot­tom of the doc­u­ment to see cat­e­gory win­ners by school and stu­dent name. Con­grat­u­la­tions to all our win­ners! They received their cer­tifi­cates early in May and were hon­ored in cer­e­monies before the end of the school year.

Our indi­vid­ual con­tests in year­book, news­pa­per and video media were redesigned for 2011 and you can down­load a PDF of the new cat­e­gories and the gen­eral rules here.

All mem­ber media were emailed instruc­tions and log-in infor­ma­tion on March 1. You can also down­load the instruc­tions for news­pa­per, and year­book. Video media instruc­tions are con­tained in email form, and involve no upload­ing — just links to stream­ing video.

You can also down­load the entry forms for all three con­tests: news­pa­per, year­book and video media. These are Word doc­u­ments that must be sub­mit­ted so that stu­dent names are cor­rect, etc.

If you have mis­placed your log-in and pass­word for the con­tests, please con­tact Jack Kennedy at chspaboard@gmail.com or jpkjournalism@gmail.com. We highly rec­om­mend at least send­ing a test PDF to the con­test site as soon as you can to avoid chaos on March 31.

Here are some key ideas behind the changes:
1. Many mem­bers have noted that get­ting indi­vid­ual awards in Octo­ber misses our grad­u­ated seniors, who are long gone. There would be more excite­ment if awards could be given in May, per­haps dur­ing school awards nights, or Quill & Scroll ini­ti­a­tions, etc.
2. Because indi­vid­ual awards were cou­pled with Sweep­stakes, lim­its were placed on num­ber of entries, par­tic­u­larly for news­pa­per. With the All-Colorado Awards, over­all media cri­tiques do not depend on indi­vid­ual entries. Media can enter as many or as few cat­e­gories as they wish, based on their unique school situations.

Entries for news­pa­per and video media need to have been published/broadcast in the period August 1, 2010 — March 31 for our first con­test, while year­book entries must be sched­uled for pub­li­ca­tion in the 2011 book.

Again, a medium can enter as few or many indi­vid­ual cat­e­gories as desired, with no penalty regard­ing being named All-Colorado (please see that page on our site for details).