Awards
National
Spring 2023-2024 American Scholastic Press Association
- First place enrollment of 1,200+
Spring 2021-2022 American Scholastic Press Association
- First place enrollment of 1,500-2,500
National Federation of Press Women Contest 2021-2022: First Place Editorial
National Federation of Press Women Contest 2021-2022: Third Place Sports Photo
National Federation of Press Women Contest 2021-2022: Third Place Features
Spring 2020-2021 American Scholastic Press Association
- First place enrollment of 2,501+
National Federation of Press Women Contest 2021
- Second Place for California Features
2019-2020 American Scholastic Press Association
- First place for enrollment of 2,501+
2018 NSPA/JEA Fall National high School Journalism Convention (Chicago)
2016 NSPA/JEA Fall National High School Journalism Convention (Indianapolis)
- Design of the Year 2nd Place Winner, Magazine Page/Spread – Victoria Juan
2016 NSPA/JEA Spring National High School Journalism Convention (Los Angeles)
- Best of Show – Website Large School
2015 NSPA/JEA Fall National High School Journalism Convention (Orlando)
- Design of the Year Finalist, Newspaper Page One – Mariam Syed
- Newspaper Pacemaker Finalist, Broadsheet 9-16 Pages
2015 NSPA/JEA Spring National High School Journalism Convention (Denver)
- Online Pacemaker
- 6th place, Best in Show, Tabloid Newspaper <16 pages
- 7th place, Best in Show, Website
2013 NSPA/JEA Fall National High School Journalism Convention (Boston)
- 4th place, Best in Show, Tabloid Newspaper <16 pages
2011 NSPA/JEA Fall National High School Journalism Convention (Minneapolis)
- 10th place, Best in Show, Tabloid Newspaper <16 pages
2009 NSPA/JEA Fall National High School Journalism Convention (Washington, D.C.)
- 4th place, Best in Show, Tabloid Newspaper <16 pages
Regional
2015 Ventura County Star High School Journalism Awards
- 1st place, Website
- 2nd place, Overall Design
- Honorable Mention, General Excellence
- Freedom Fighters (Grace O’Toole & Courtney Brousseau)
- 1st place, Features, Sex: Undressing the Issue (Kellie Levine, Shreya Chattopadhyay, Raevyn Walker, & Tazaieen Sayeda)
- 1st place, Graphic, 45 minutes: Where can you really eat? (Michael Hellard)
- 1st place, Column, Ebola: Stop tweeting about it, you’re not going to die (Courtney Brousseau)
- 1st place, News Photo, Dance for Hope (Samantha Meyer)
- 1st place, Social Media, Humans of Newbury Park (Samantha Meyer, Daulton Beck, & Haley Berardinelli)
- 2nd place, Features, Suzie Smith: Broken spine, unbroken spirit (Rachna Deshpande)
- 2nd place, Review, Insurgent incites action with meaning (Shreya Chattopadhyay)
- 2nd place, Series, Earning not Learning (Victoria Juan, Samantha Meyer, Daulton Beck)
- Honorable Mention, News, Student rights and student innocence (Victoria Juan, Haley Berardinelli, Nevnit Gill, & Alyssa Boedigheimer)
- Honorable Mention, Opinion, Club community service required uncalled for and unnecessary (Shreya Chattopadhyay)
- Honorable Mention, Opinion, Going green: Is legalizing marijuana really worth it? (Victoria Juan)
- Honorable Mention, Series, Suicide (Kellie Levine, Samantha Meyer, Monica Boedigheimer, Nevnit Gill, Tazaieen Sayeda, & Mariam Syed)
- Honorable Mention, Sports Photo, The CIF Mud Bowl: Football ends season with a bang (Samantha Meyer)
2015 Tri-County Journalism Education Association Convention
- 2nd place, Overall Sweepstakes
- 2nd place, Best Newspaper
- 3rd place, Best News Website
- First Amendment Fighters (Grace O’Toole & Courtney Brousseau)
- 1st place, News Writing (Monica Boedigheimer)
- 1st place, Page Layout (Courtney Brousseau)
- 2nd place, Editorial Writing (Shreya Chattopadhyay)
- 2nd place, Page Layout (Victoria Juan)
- 3rd place, News Writing (Mariam Syed)
- Honorable Mention, Editorial Writing (Kellie Levine)
- Honorable Mention, Features Photography (Sammy Meyer)
- Honorable Mention, News Photography (Sammy Meyer)
