GSSPA - Garden State Scholastic Press Association

Congratulations

to our 2010 scholarship winners:

The Bernard Kilgore Memorial Scholarship

Adam Offitzer of Scotch Plains High School,

Scotch Plains: $5,000

The Bob Stevens Memorial Scholarship

Megan Berkowitz of Communications High School,

Wall Township: $1,500

Both scholars were chosen by a panel of professional journalists at the New Jersey Press Foundation, which will honor Mr. Offitzer at its annual dinner. He has also earned the honor of being named the New Jersey High School Journalist of the Year. His portfolio is now New Jersey’s entry for the 2010 National High School Journalist of the Year award program sponsored by the National Journalism Education Association. Both scholars will also be honored at the GSSPA's Spring Conference for Advisers, May 7 at Rutgers.

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^{Multimedia Conference}

Request a professional development day for the
Spring Conference, May 7 at Rutgers University.

Session Topics:
• How to set up your online publication
• Using Twitter and Blogs to improve your publication
• How Facebook works for yearbooks, newspapers
• InDesign and Photoshop tips and tricks
• Adobe Bridge to the rescue

• Lesson Plans for Multimedia Learning

GSSPA Spring Advisers' Conference

8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

Friday, May 7, 2010

at Douglass Campus Center

Rutgers University

New Brunswick, New Jersey

Fees: $25 for members, $50 for nonmembers,

which includes breakfast, lunch and materials.

Registration Deadline April 30.

Click here to download your registration form.

Print and mail the form today to:

GSSPA

Conference Chair Sue Everett,
78 Lincoln St., Jersey City, NJ 07307

Questions? Contact Sue Everett at (201) 653-5480

(if no answer, leave a direct phone number

and indicate best time to call)

or write to everetts@earthlink.net


	Attention student journalists: The video press conference went off as planned on Wednesday morning, April 14, when student journalists and state officials discussed New Jersey's new driving law for permitted and provisional drivers. License plate decals, earlier curfews and new rules on passengers were some of the issues discussed. *Thanks to our technology director,* *Tom McHale of Hunterton Central Regional High School,* *for arranging this great opportunity for our members and their students.*
	Congratulations to our 2009 Newspaper and Yearbook award winners. Click here to download the list of Distinguished Newspapers and Yearbooks. Click here to grab the Individual Student award winners.
	Visit our Student Center. Submit your application now for the Friend of Scholastic Journalism award and mini-grants program.

	GSSPA mini-grant proposals are accepted on an ongoing basis. Newspaper and Yearbook contest deadlines are July 1 – keep them in mind as you make your way through the rest of the school year. Click on the Contests tab below for contest entry forms and information.

Original site design by Jessica Gaitan

Attention student journalists:

The video press conference went off as planned on Wednesday morning, April 14, when student journalists and state officials discussed New Jersey's new driving law for permitted and provisional drivers.

License plate decals, earlier curfews and new rules on passengers were some of the issues discussed.