The Muse Recognized at the Palm Beach Post Excellence in High School Journalism Awards

April 30, 2015

Communications teacher Stephen Moore (L-R, top row), senior Maria Grosso, junior Samantha Rose, junior Starr Courakos, seniors Madeleine Fitzgerald, Mackenzie White, (L-R, bottom row) Taylor Hendrickson , Claudia Zamora and Remi Lederman attend the Palm Beach Post Excellence in High School Journalism Awards.

The Muse earned several awards recognizing the staff’s journalistic achievements at The Palm Beach Post’s Excellence in High School Journalism Awards today, April 30. Judges from The Palm Beach Post awarded newspapers, newsmagazines and news websites from high schools across Palm Beach County in various categories. The Muse won second place for newspaper website, second place for general excellence newspaper and third place for social media. Communications teacher and The Muse advisor Stephen Moore and John I. Leonard High School’s newspaper adviser Charysse K. Carter both won the general excellence award for publication adviser, which rewarded both teachers with a $250 prize. Individual staffers from The Muse were also recognized in nearly every category.

Communications teacher Stephen Moore receives the general excellence award for publication adviser. — Photo by Samantha Rose
Communications teacher Stephen Moore receives the general excellence award for his accomplishments as the adviser of The Muse.

The Muse individual winners

Communications junior Bennett Morgan – third place in cartooning/illustrating and honorable mention in entertainment writing

Visual senior Adrian Casanova – honorable mention in cartooning/illustrating

Communications senior Ximena Hasbach – honorable mention in column writing

Communications sophomore Michael Wang – first place in editorial writing

Strings senior Felipe Bomeny – second place in editorial writing

Communications senior Bari Bossis – third place in entertainment writing

Communications sophomores Brittany McKenzie and Elliot Hacker – second place in feature writing

Communications junior Tiffany Abreu – third place in feature writing

Communications sophomores Mary Rasura and Alexa Marcellino – second place in news writing

Communications sophomore Uma Raja – third place in news writing

Communications sophomore Julia Horneck – honorable mention in photography

Communications junior Tomas Cabezas – second place in sports writing

Communications teacher Stephen Moore – general excellence, adviser

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Samantha Rose, Editor-In-Chief

Communications senior Samantha Rose is a third-year staffer and Co-Editor-in-Chief of The Muse. She has had a passion for writing since middle school and loves expanding it on The Muse. In addition to journalism, Rose takes a film class and is involved in the Dreyfoos community as co-secretary of National Honor Society, treasurer of Key Club and member of National English Honor Society and Spanish Honor Society. Rose is also a third degree black belt in taekwondo. In addition to helping staffers in The Muse, Rose loves teaching children during the summer at Digi-Camp, where she assists kids with video game programming, video production, photography, and TV production. This summer, Rose gained more journalistic experience at the Asian American Journalists Association’s JCamp at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. She was one of 42 high school students selected to participate in the program, during which she learned from several prominent journalists while working on her own story. While Rose is keeping her options open, she hopes to pursue a career in communications and continue journalism in college by joining another scholastic publication.

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The Muse Recognized at the Palm Beach Post Excellence in High School Journalism Awards