Spring Contests

Designers, photographers, writers and videographers honored

April 15, 2020

Spring contests go online submission – deadline March 16

February 24, 2015

Spring News contest results 2014

May 22, 2014

Spring contest classes

May 19, 2014

For the 2014 Spring news contests we placed printed publications into equal sized competition classes. After all the entries arrived, we placed the biggest third of the schools were grouped into Class C, the small third were placed...

Spring contests details revealed – start here

February 12, 2014

Spring Contests – Online & Evaluation

February 7, 2014

Hawkeye Photographer of the Year 2014

February 4, 2014

The IHSPA Hawkeye Photographer of the Year is award to a student from a IHSPA member publication. The judges evaluate a portfolio of a photographer's work. Please review the rules. CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD ENTRY FORM/a>...

IHSPA Scholars 2017

February 4, 2014

Entering journalism contests: Why and How

February 4, 2014

By Gary Lindsay Early in my tenure as adviser at Kennedy High, the reasons why I put off entering students into journalism contests seemed so compelling – the contests came at the worst time of the year when I was swamped, th...

Emerging Journalist Honors 2017

February 4, 2014

Spring Contest Results 2013

June 21, 2013

The judges have ruled and here are the results of the 2013 Spring contests for newspaper, news magazine, broadcast, online and photographer of the year. 246 prizes were awarded. The contests were judged by professionals from Iow...

2012 Spring Newspaper Contest results

June 6, 2012

Congrats to all who entered. Our judges could not have been more impressed. Read More »...