NC Scholastic Media Association

Welcome to another great year! Editors were busy over the summer attending the Summer Institute at UNC Chapel Hill. Here is a list of the awards announced at the ceremony. Congrats to all our writers and artists!
Overall Magazine Awards

• Tar Heel Award
  • Fourteenth year in a row
• All-North Carolina

Section Awards for Overall Magazine—State Rankings

• Poetry                          1st place
• Design and Layout    1st  place
• Art                                2nd   place
• Photography              2nd place                                 
• Cover                           3rd   place
• Nonfiction                   3rd  place
• Fiction                          HM                  
• Theme Development  HM

Individual Awards for Work in Magazine* (State Winners)

• Zoe Knepp                                            Poetry Layout                           2nd place
• Em Carter                                             Poetry Layout                           Honorable Mention    
• Zoe Knepp and Ella Mainwaring-Foster   Nonfiction Layout         2nd place
• Zoe Knepp and Abigail Welch                Nonfiction Layout              3rd place
• Gayatri Chora and Charlotte Beck          Fiction Layout                   3rd place
• Em Carter                                             Fiction Layout                          Honorable Mention
• Bhavana Veeravalli and Ellie Cotton       Fiction Layout                 Honorable Mention
• Em Carter                                             Phot/Art Layout                      2nd place
• Samuel Shoemaker                               Fiction                                     1st place
• Andy Hill                                               Fiction                                       3rd place
• Abigail Welch                                        Review                                    1st place
• Allie Debe                                             Feature                                      1st place
• Gayatri Chopra                                      Feature                                   2nd place
• Cayleigh Brown                                     Poetry                                     3rd place
• Maddie Ellis                                          Personal Essay                       3rd  place
• Mack Hopkins                                       Photography                         Honorable Mention
• Alison-Leigh Rosenfeld                          Photography                       Honorable Mention

The following students won awards for work completed June 16-19 in Chapel Hill at the NC Scholastic Media Association Summer Institute.

• Zoe Kaperonis
• Cayleigh Brown

Gayatri Chopra was elected Vice-President of the NC Scholastic Media Student Associati