Boiling Point staff wins eight digital Gold Circle awards from CSPA
Total includes four first-place awards in contest for work appearing on website between October of 2014 to October of last year.
BP Graphic by Gabe Silverstein
WINNER: Gabe Silverstein’s depiction of student behavior with the Yik-Yak app won first prize for digital editorial cartoons.
February 4, 2016
Here is a list of CSPA Digital Gold Circle awards won by Boiling Point staffers for work published on this website. The awards were announced this afternoon by the Columbia Scholastic Press Association in New York and were for work published from Oct. 11, 2014 to Oct. 13, 2015.
These stories were also published in print, and several won Gold Circle print awards as well. Online versions also include videos, slide shows and links to related stories, and graphic design is presented differently.
Rose Lipner, First Place in News Writing, for “Cheatology:More than twice as many students say they cheat on Schoology as on paper”
Alec Fields and Alexa Fishman, First Place in Sports News, for “Buckley says he resigned rather than accept playoff game suspension,” The Boiling Point | shalhevetboilingpoint.com, Shalhevet High School, Los Angeles, CA
Gabe Silverstein, First Place in Computer generated art/illustration for “From Charlie Chaplin to Charlie Hebdo, satire is crucial force for change,”
Gabe Silverstein, First place in Editorial Cartoons, for “Three Hours of Anonymity Show an Unflattering Mirror”
Micah Gill, Second Prize in General or Humor Commentary, for “What We’re Wearing: For Timeless Fashion, Follow The Don,”
Shana Chriki, Third Place, First-person Experience, for “SENIORS IN POLAND – At day’s end, ‘I sang because I can”
Eric Bazak, Certificate of Merit, In-depth news/feature story, for “How Fair are the SATs”
Rose Lipner, Certificate of Merit, In-depth news/feature story, for “Cheatology:More than twice as many students say they cheat on Schoology as on paper“
A full list of categories, winners and their schools can be found here. Yearbook prizes were also announced today, and appear in the announcements before the news categories.
