J-Day registration now open

It just seemed nat­ural to go with “BE EPIC” as the theme. Would Col­orado scholas­tic jour­nal­ism set­tle for any­thing less?

The CHSPA state jour­nal­ism con­fer­ence, bet­ter known as J-Day, returns to the Lory Stu­dent Cen­ter at CSU on Thurs­day, Oct. 13. And reg­is­tra­tion for J-Day is now open. Some­thing new this year: we will be reg­is­ter­ing using a sim­ple inter­ac­tive PDF that you can down­load from this site.

Once you have your num­ber of atten­dees, just fill in the required infor­ma­tion, save a copy of the PDF on your com­puter, and then email your reg­is­tra­tion to chspaboard@gmail.com. Please place your school name/medium in the sub­ject line.

Many J-Day details will be com­ing soon (so keep check­ing this site, weekly CHSPA emails, and your school mail), but here a few things you might want to know:

The gen­eral sched­ule fea­tures three 40-minute learn­ing ses­sions and an extended lunch break:

• 8:30–9:20  Open­ing Assem­bly in Lory Ballroom
• 9:30–10:10  Learn­ing Ses­sion #1
• 10:25–11:05  Learn­ing Ses­sion #2
• 11:20-noon  Learn­ing Ses­sion #3
• Noon-1:15  Lunch for all
• 1:20–1:50  Clos­ing Assem­bly in Lory Ballroom

Two of the pre­mier advis­ers in the nation will be fea­tured speak­ers this year:
Sarah Nichols, the JEA National Year­book Adviser of the Year and JEA vice pres­i­dent, will help move your year­book (and news­pa­per too!) to new lev­els of excel­lence and cre­ativ­ity.
Aaron Man­full, JEA Dig­i­tal Media Com­mit­tee chair, will guide you through the process of adding an strong online pres­ence to your print pro­gram (and he is also an incred­i­ble news­magazine and year­book adviser).

The CHSPA Board invites all advis­ers to join them for a luncheon/general mem­ber­ship meet­ing, and the cost of the lunch is included in adviser reg­is­tra­tion fees. Good food, good cama­raderie, a chance to meet the board, and a chance to bring up issues CHSPA should be focus­ing on this school year. You really don’t want to miss this!

Of course, you will get to con­grat­u­late the 2011 CHSPA Adviser of the Year at the open­ing assem­bly, to enter stu­dent work in our Best of Show con­tests, and to cheer wildly for our first All-Colorado Awards hon­orees at the clos­ing assembly.

Nearly 40 var­ied learn­ing ses­sions to choose from. Tours of Rocky Moun­tain Stu­dent Media. A chance to meet many pro­fes­sors from the CSU Depart­ment of Jour­nal­ism and Tech­ni­cal Com­mu­ni­ca­tion. Exhibitors from pub­lish­ing com­pa­nies and rep­re­sen­ta­tives from a vari­ety of col­leges and uni­ver­si­ties. And so much more!