The American Scholastic Press Association has awarded Westfield High School\u2019s Optic Magazine \u201cFirst Place with Special Merit\u201d for its reporting during the 2022-2023 school year.\u00a0 This category recognizes the top-scoring high school and college student magazines nationally for the organization\u2019s Scholastic Newspaper Awards.<\/p>\n
The student-run Optics also was recognized in the category of\u00a0 \u201cMost Outstanding High School Literary-Art Magazine for 2023.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe students work very hard to put out magazines of this caliber four times a year. Each magazine takes hard work, passion, talent, and teamwork to complete,\u201d says WHS journalism teacher and Hi\u2019s Eye\/Optic Adviser Shawn McDonald.\u00a0 \u201cWe are honored that, in Optic\u2019s third year of publication, we were able to win such prestigious and respectable awards. These awards truly showcase the talented students who make up our robust journalism program at Westfield High School.\u201d<\/p>\n
Editor\u2019s Note: <\/em>We\u2019re happy each month to publish an article written by a student from the Westfield High School Journalism Department. WHS features an important legacy of fostering strong journalism and features a 100-year old newspaper, Hi\u2019s Eye, as well as award-winning magazine, Optic, and a widely-popular digital publication.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The American Scholastic Press Association has awarded Westfield High School\u2019s Optic Magazine \u201cFirst Place with Special Merit\u201d for its reporting during the 2022-2023 school year.\u00a0 This category recognizes the top-scoring high school and college student magazines nationally for the organization\u2019s Scholastic Newspaper Awards. The student-run Optics also was recognized in the category of\u00a0 \u201cMost Outstanding […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[151],"tags":[],"post_flags":[],"class_list":["post-32806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-westfield-local"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32808,"href":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32806\/revisions\/32808"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32806"},{"taxonomy":"post_flag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fpost_flags&post=32806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}