North Lake College brought home 26 awards from this year’s Texas Intercollegiate Press Association (TIPA) Convention, which was held in downtown Dallas March 30-April 1.
Newspaper and television students attended the annual event at the Crowne Plaza Hotel. Awards were given in the areas of Television, Newspaper, General Magazine and Literary Magazine.
Sports writer Alex Kypfer took home a third place award for a live contest in the On-site Competition. He boarded a bus with other students on Thursday and attended a UTD baseball game. Then the bus brought the students back to the hotel where they had to write the story and turn it in within a certain timeframe.
There was a record number of participants at this year’s convention, with more than 500 students attending from 2-year and 4-year colleges in Texas. Nine students and three advisers from North Lake College attended.
North Lake College competed in Division 5, which included Mary-Hardin-Baylor, Midland College, Incarnate Word, Panola College, St. Mary’s University, Trinity Valley Community College, Sul Ross, Northeast Texas Community College, Tarleton, West Texas A&M, and A&M-Galveston.
The News-Register would like to thank everyone who helped the students achieve these awards by opening your doors for interviews or taking time from your day for photographs and video.
Below are the winning entries:
On-site Competition
Alex Kypfer
3rd Place
Print Sports Story, “UTD baseball game”
Television
Chad Rea
2nd Place
Television Production
Luis Barbosa
Honorable Mention
TV News Non-Feature
Ardalan Badakhshanian
Honorable Mention
Television Documentary
Newspaper, News-Register
Nathan Woodham
1st Place
News Feature Story, “Where do they sleep?”
Justin Livingston
1st Place
Feature Page Design, “Pokemon in Academia”
Prav Ramarao
2nd Place
General Column, Campus Carry “Don’t feel under …”
Justin Livingston, Joanna Mikolajczak, Alejandra Zavaleta
2nd Place
Page One Design, Nov. 28, 2016
Joanna Mikolajczak
2nd Place
Sports Page Design, Nov. 28, 2016
Justin Livingston
2nd Place
Photo Illustration, “Where do they sleep?”
Justin Livingston and Nathan Woodham
2nd Place
Single Subject Presentation, “Comic Con,” Feb. 29, 2016
Justin Livingston
2nd Place,
Information Graphic, “Pokemon Map, Aug. 22, 2016”
Justin Livingston
2nd Place
Ad Design, “Arts & Literary Festival”
Alejandra Zavaleta-Melara
2nd Place
Feature Photo, “Sonya Hopkins, Green Acres story”
Staff
2nd Place
Opinion/Editorial Page Design, April 25, 2016 issue
News-Register
3rd Place
Overall Excellence
Alex Kypfer
Honorable Mention
Sports News Story, “Heating up”
Nicole Furbacher
Honorable Mention
Sports Feature Story, “Making headlines …”
Justin Livingston
Honorable Mention
Feature Page Design, “Halloween”
Chirag Sainju
Honorable Mention
Sports Feature Photo, “All ages …”
General Magazine, The Blazer
Justin Livingston, Nathan Woodham, Joanna Mikolajczak
Honorable Mention
“The Blazer” cover
Literary Magazine, Duck Soup
Charlie Hilliard
1st Place
Short Story, “I’ll Be Okay”
Trace Bivens, Santiago Nava, Martin Cho, Tania Ramos, Nathan Woodham
2nd Place
Story Package, “The Rise of Leisure and Its Consequences”
Duck Soup
3rd Place
Overall Excellence
Angela Sharp
Honorable Mention
Illustration, “August.”
Edyersis Gonzalez
Honorable Mention
Feature Photo, “Love in the Shadows”