Any incoming CMA applicants must attend one of the following writing assessment sessions:
• February 17th, 3:30 PM
• February 19th, 6:00 PM
• February 20th, 11:00 AM
All sessions will be held in Manual’s senior cafeteria, accessible from Manual’s back parking lot (enter from Cardinal Boulevard or 2nd Street). It is the large windowed room that extends into the courtyard.
You must bring:
• pens or pencils
• lined paper
• a photo ID (or other photo identification). Any officially issued document is acceptable — student ID, a state ID card, a Kentucky Kingdom card, a TARC ID, a YMCA ID, last year’s yearbook, etc. — as long as it has the student’s name and photo on it.
Please arrive early. No student will be admitted to the testing area after the assessment has begun. The assessment will last one hour.
Participation in one of these sessions is required for all CMA applicants.
The assessment is the same in all sessions. In addition to these sessions, you must also submit a complete CMA application to Manual High School if you have not done so already.
If you have questions, please email the CMA department chair or call 485-8241.
We can win an online contest sponsored by Best Buy- all we have to do is get the most votes between Feb. 2nd and Feb. 16th.
Step one: Go to www.at15.com
Step two: Register as a member. (It’s easy- takes 5 seconds!)
Step three:
- Select “contests & scholarships”
- Then select “The Teach@15 awards”
- Click on “vote”
- Then search for Manual by city or state
- Select duPont Manual and VOTE!
Step four: Repeat once each day until Feb. 16th
Step five: Enjoy our new equipment!
You still have a few days left to submit a design for a new CMA T-shirt. The deadline is Friday, February 5 at 2:20 PM. Bring your design to Mr. Miller in room 251 or Ms. Palmer in room 252. The winner receives a FREE Manual yearbook (or a full refund if you’ve already purchased one)!
To keep up with changes in the journalism industry, CMA Multimedia students have developed a new student news site and produced multimedia content for the site. The new publication is called RedEye and can be found at manualredeye.com. The students will unveil the web site today in a ceremony to be attended by teachers and the administration. Congratulations CMA students!
Our annual trip to the Columbia Scholastic Press Association’s convention has been finalized. Click the link below to see price and payment deadline information. Last trip we had to turn away participants, so register immediately to reserve your spot.
New this year – we will be seeing a bit of Broadway in our free time with the show Wicked. We’ll also take time to see the NBC Studio Tour, and of course, since we’re accepting a Crown award for the yearbook – either Gold or Silver – for the first time this year, we won’t want to miss the awards ceremony!
NYC trip information
We just got word that our 2008-2009 yearbook is a finalist in the international Columbia Scholastic Press Association Crown awards, the “Pulitzers of high school journalism.” This is totally unprecedented for our students and a huge distinction for our program – only 30 schools in the world end up on the yearbook finalist list each year. This means we have either won a Gold Crown or a Silver Crown, and winning either is fantastic. We’ll find out in the spring which award we’ve won when we attend the CSPA convention in NYC.
Click below to see the full listing of all schools on the finalist list for Crowns.
http://cspa.columbia.edu/docs/contests-and-critiques/crown-awards/recipients/2010-scholastic-crown.html#N10205
Take a moment to view and vote for the CMA broadcast students’ entry into the Fox 41 “Journalism 101″ contest.
Click here for Fox 41 contest
Now that we’ve returned from our DC convention trip, we are in the planning stages of the NYC trip in March. We hope to announce a price by winter break.
I am really pleased to pass along so much good news about our students. I’ll start with the results of the Journalism Education Association’s on-site journalism contests at the National Scholastic Press Association convention in Washington, DC the weekend of Nov. 12-15, 2009:
Patty Gray – Yearbook Student Life Photography, Superior
Meagan Anderson – Computer Design: Headline, Excellent
Charley Nold – Computer Design: Advertising, Excellent
Logan Gilbert – Sports Writing, Honorable Mention
Jackie Veling – Review Writing, Honorable Mention
Patrick Haertel – Commentary Writing, Honorable Mention
Colleen Kidd – Computer Design: Logo, Honorable Mention
Lauren McKay – Yearbook Sports Photography, Honorable Mention
Eli Fosl – Short Documentary, Honorable Mention
One of Patty Gray’s award-winning photos can be seen in the upper right-hand corner of the JEA’s website: http://jea.org
We are proud of these and all Manual CMA students who competed against top journalism programs in the nation.
On Friday, Nov. 6, our 08-09 yearbook brought home the award for Best Overall Yearbook from the WKU state-wide yearbook contest for the second year in a row. We placed first or second in all contest categories, bringing home the following awards:
Best Overall Yearbook (1st)
Best Overall Yearbook Copy (1st)
Best Overall Yearbook Layout/Design (1st)
Best Overall Yearbook Photography (1st)
Best Overall Yearbook Theme Development (1st)
Best Candid Feature Photo (1st)
Best Color Spread (1st)
Best Feature Story (1st)
Best Overall Academic Section (1st)
Best Overall Organizations Section (1st)
Best Overall Student Life Section (1st)
Best Sports Action Photo (2nd)
Best Overall Yearbook Advertising (2nd)
Best Overall Sports Section (2nd)
Best Cover (2nd)
In addition, the Columbia Scholastic Press Association awarded the Gold Medalist rating (the highest possible) to last year’s Crimson. We also achieved the highest possible award from the National Scholastic Press Association: the All-American rating with five Marks of Distinction. Please congratulate last year’s yearbook students when you see them for excellent work that represents our school and the CMA department well!
