Senior Zoe Serbin, a writer and artist, recently won two Gold Keys, three Silver Keys, and seven Honorable Mentions from the California Region of The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. “I was really surprised to hear that I won all of those awards, but I was also pretty excited. It was my last year to more »
What started out with eight students in a one-semester academic journalism elective in 1994 has flourished into a highly competitive course. Journalism and Advanced Journalism students produce the high school newspaper, The Fourth Estate, which is a nationally recognized high school newspaper in the Santa Barbara County. Nineteen years ago, Ms. Trish McHale came more »
Gold Circles Gold Circle Awards Overview Gold Circle Awards are offered to recognize superior work by student journalists usually as individuals but sometimes as an entire staff working with either print or online media. These media are published in schools or colleges throughout the United States and in overseas schools following an American plan of more »
Members of The Fourth Estate newspaper staff erupted in cheers as they discovered via live web cam from Columbia University that they won the Columbia Scholastic Press Association’s Silver Crown Award for the first time. Crown Awards are the highest recognition given by the Columbia Scholastic Press Association to a student print or online medium more »
Congratulations to the Fourth Estate on being named a 2012 Crown Finalist by the Columbia Scholastic Press Association.
She did it again! Sophomore Aija Mayrock’s is a finalist in the screenwriting portion of the 10-10-10 competition for the second year in a row. 10-10-10 is a student filmmaking competition developed by the Santa Barbara International Film Festival in 2001 which takes place annually. There is a screenwriting and filmmaking portion in the competition. more »
Over the summer, members of the Laguna Blanca Sailing Team, seniors Savanna Brown and Tucker Atterbury, and junior Cassidy Shevitz received high honors from the Santa Barbara Youth Sailing Foundation for their achievements. Tucker received the Sheridan P. Gerard Trophy Perpetual Crew Award. According to SBYF, the Sheridan P. Gerard Trophy is awarded to the more »
Three juniors: Anastasia Antonova, Tess Elder, and Kyle van de Kamer received photography awards in two different competitions under the instruction of Visual Arts Department Chair Mr. Chris Johnson. “The American Association of Physics Teachers,” a national contest, requires that its contestants take a photo of a law of physics in action either natural or more »
Laguna Blanca’s Upper School newspaper, The Fourth Estate, has been selected as a 2011 NSPA Design of the Year Finalist in the NSPA 2011 Pacemaker Competition. “This is the Holy Grail of journalism awards,” explains Journalism Instructor Trish McHale. McHale continues, “This is NSPA’s (National Scholastic Press Association) annual contest for newspaper, magazine, and yearbook more »
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