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Awards and Scholarships

2024 SIPA Convention Awards

Scroggins Award: Best of South

SIPA presents its highest award, the Scroggins Award: Best of South, each year to each publication type – broadcast, literary magazine, news, online and yearbook. To be eligible, a program must be a SIPA member, fill out the entry form and submit the publications by Feb. 21.

Scroggins award entry form

 

Visual Contest

Publications can submit three entries per category in these visual categories – ranging from broadcast and online to newspaper, newsmagazine, literary magazine and yearbook design to photography and art. Entries due Feb. 12. For questions, [email protected]

Visual contest submission instructions and category descriptions

 

 

Dr. Kay Phillips Administrator of the Year Award

SIPA has recognized administrators who are supportive of scholastic journalism since 1988. The winner of the award will be invited to give brief remarks at the banquet on the evening of March 2, 2024. Application deadline Feb. 1.

Dr. Kay Phillips Administrator of the Year Award

 

College Scholarships

 

SIPA offers four scholarships for students who plan to attend college. The application deadline is Feb. 10, 2024. Winners must be SIPA media staff members and must attend the convention.

 

Col. C.E. Savedge Yearbook Scholarship

The USC School of Journalism and Mass Communications has established a scholarship for a yearbook staff member who plans to attend the USC School of Journalism and Mass Communications. The scholarship was first awarded at the 1992 convention. The winner must attend the convention.

Scholarship Application

 

Elizabeth B. Dickey SIPA Scholarship

This scholarship is awarded by USC’s School of Journalism and Mass Communications to an outstanding SIPA student at the annual convention. Recipients must attend the USC School of Journalism and Mass Communications and plan a career in journalism. The winner must attend the convention.

Scholarship Application

 

  1. Grady Locklear Scholarship

The student recipient of the J. Grady Locklear Scholarship must be on a literary magazine staff and must attend the USC School of Journalism and Mass Communications. The winner must attend the convention.

Scholarship Application

 

Mary Y. Inglis Regional Scholarship

The SIPA Endowment Committee awards a $500 scholarship to an outstanding SIPA student who will attend a school of journalism and mass communications at an accredited college or university in the SIPA region. The winner must attend the convention.

Scholarship Application

 

Other awards

 

Please see the criteria on each application. Applications should be submitted to Nina Brook, [email protected], (803) 576-6322. Deadlines: Feb. 1

 

Elizabeth B. Dickey Distinguished Service Award

This award recognizes advisers, teachers and friends of scholastic journalism who have contributed extraordinary amounts of time, talent and energy to SIPA.

Award Form

 

Joseph W. Shoquist Freedom of the Press Award

SIPA’s Freedom of the Press Award was initiated in 1989 in recognition of an adviser’s use of her First Amendment rights on the high school level. The award, named in honor of a former dean of the School of Journalism, will be given periodically when someone makes a strong stand for scholastic journalism.

Award Form

 

Karen H. Flowers Outstanding Service Award

SIPA’s Outstanding Service Award was given for the first time in 2010 as the New Friend of Scholastic Media Award. This award, renamed in honor of former director Karen Flowers, goes to an individual who is not in the classroom but who has significantly supported scholastic journalism.

Award Form

 

Leslie Dennis Heart for Diversity Award

This award, named in honor of former director Leslie Dennis, is presented to an individual or organization that has demonstrated an ongoing commitment to promoting diversity, inclusivity and multicultural awareness through scholastic media.

Award Form