Enter your work today for our yearly KEMPA individual contest! Submissions are due by June 13th, 2025.
KEMPA offers several individual contest categories in News: Print & Online, Yearbook, Broadcast, and Photography for student work published by member schools in the 2024-25 school year. This contest is an opportunity for your students to enter their individual work to compete against other student journalists as writers, photographers, designers and multimedia journalists. This contest does not replace KEMPA’s yearly critique and competition for your overall publication, however, so please be sure to enter your publication for a chance to earn a separate award for your publication as a whole!
KEMPA’s individual contest is entirely online and welcomes each school to enter an unlimited number of entries. We don’t want any students left out! Student entries will be judged by impartial, qualified, out-of-state experts in scholastic journalism; no KEMPA members will act as judges in this competition. Judges may choose Best Of Show, Superior, Excellent and Honorable Mention winners for each category. Winners will be announced at the annual KEMPA Fall Scholastic Journalism Conference in October and winning work will be published at www.kempajournalism.org/ so all students can learn from and use the winning products as models.
The deadline for submissions is June 13th. Please refer to the specific entry directions listed for each category. If you have questions, please do not hesitate to contact KEMPA.
Michelle Corbett, KEMPA Individual Contests Chair
PAYMENT OPTIONS FOR INDIVIDUAL ENTRY COMPETITION
Each individual entry costs $5. There is no limit to the number of entries by school or by category, so all students are encouraged to enter. Each individual entry must be listed on the appropriate Google Form registration and documents below.
All submissions and payments must be received by June 13, 2025.
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TO PAY BY CHECK OR MONEY ORDER: Make payment payable to KEMPA and mail to:
Michelle Corbett
6245 95th Ave.
Kenosha, WI
53142
TO PAY BY CREDIT CARD: Go to Paypal.com and
- Log in to your Paypal account (or set up an account)
- Click on the “Pay or Send Money” icon
- You will be prompted with two options; choose “Pay for Goods and Services.”
- The screen will ask you for an email or mobile. Input this email address: [email protected] and the amount of your payment. Please note: you will send your payments to [email protected], but all entries must be submitted through the Google sheet.
IMPORTANT: After you submit, there is an optional field for comments or notes. Please write your name, school, and that you are paying for Individual Contest Entries.
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Reminder: Please review your school’s registration, payment, and files shared before sending/ submitting these parts for the contest:
- Your payment (Check via mail OR Paypal)
- and your registration information via Google forms (linked above) with very specific directions for naming and listing your entry files.
Advisers: Please make sure your registration information matches the file names and payment you submit.
Good luck, and have fun!!
