Nominees:
Best in Student News Reporting and Writing:
Baseball Dreamin – Daniel Hand High School - Caroline Kaempf / Margaret Major / Jordan Victor
Honor our Heroes – Norwich Free Academy - Aleysha Rivera Bocachica / Brett Woods
A Family That Kicks Together, Sticks Together – Shepaug Valley High School - Ava Adaletti / Eliza Guchkova Slastushinskaya
What it takes – Norwich Free Academy - Aleysha Rivera Bocachica / Shea Gendron
South Windsor for Kids - South Windsor High School - Hannah Mitchell / Jaylene Ferrabelo
Best in Student News Photography and Editing:
Powder Puff – Jonathan Law High School - Nick Owens / Paris Champ / Andrew Silva
Outside Perspectives – Shepaug Valley High School - Sam Maceli
Holiday Bread Baking – Norwich Free Academy - Jack Holdsworth / Gabriella Chinigo
Teen Pilot - Daniel Hand High School - Alara Nahar
Mystic Middle School Select Chorus – Stonington High School - Taylor Donovan / Alex Tobiasen
Most Compelling Student News Story:
Penguin Preservation – Norwich Free Academy - Aleysha Rivera Bocachica / Shea Gendron
Quilts of Valor – South Windsor High School - Alan Cavagnaro
Drug Addiction Strikes the Boy Next Door – Shepaug Valley High School - Olivia Lautier
Suicide Panel – Norwich Free Academy - Aleysha Rivera Bocachica / Shea Gendron
Doctor Petit – Daniel Hand High School - Madeline Dobson / Alexandra Fischer
Big Y Locally Grown Scholarship:
Angevine Tree Farm - Shepaug Valley High School - Cazden Brenner / Luchino Romano Gilna
Organic Store – Norwich Free Academy - Sydney Martin / Alivia Hamilton
Hopkins Vineyard – Shepaug Valley High School - Michael Iannazzo / Olivia Lautier
Grass & Bone – Stonington High School - Oliver Gilman
Stonington Vineyard - Stonington High School - Benjamin Abely / George Hillegass
CHESLA/CHET Higher Education Scholarship:
Tide Pod – Shepaug Valley High School - Matt Sheedy / Jaxen Griggs / Devon Langworthy
Easing Stress with Therapy Dogs – The Morgan School - Sydney Fratamico
Shakesperience - Shepaug Valley High School - Alexa Kotas / Henry James
It Takes One – South Windsor High School - Hannah Mitchell / Jaylene Ferrabelo
Zero Waste – Middlebrook School - Harrison Forland