The Vision Takes Home Awards at MSPA Competition

The Vision staff celebrating its victory at MSPA

Jax Dallas, Entertainment Editor
April 3, 2017

On Friday, March 31, six members of The Vision staff ventured to Oxford for the annual Mississippi Scholastic Press Association state convention, where they attended multiple varied journalistic seminars before attending an award ceremony where The Vision won two first place awards and recognition in nine other categories.

The convention opened bright and early Friday morning, with dozens of high school journalists clamoring over the Grove of Ole Miss, searching for a dose of eye-opening caffeine from the complementary breakfast line before heading off to their respective seminars.

The topics covered in the seminars varied from lessons on aerial photography in a seminar called “ATTACK OF THE DRONES!!!” to the attacks on journalists by the Trump administration in a seminar called “ENEMIES OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE?”

After the seminars concluded the young journalists were invited to move across the Grove to attend the awards ceremony where The Vision and its staff received eleven recognitions in varying categories. These categories include:

Best Opinion Writing, The Vision: Winner
Best Review, Noah Hunt: Winner
Best News and Feature Writing, The Vision: Finalist
Best Online Presence, The Vision: Finalist
Best Feature Story, Jax Dallas: Finalist
Best Opinion Piece, Yousef Abu Salah: Finalist
Best Review, Jax Dallas: Finalist
Best Cartoon, Rebecca Chen: Finalist
Best News Photo, Mariat Thankachan
Best Feature Photo, Jax Dallas: Finalist
Best Sports Photo, Noah Hunt: Finalist