On April 14th, a few students from both the Newspaper and Yearbook classes at Lewis-Palmer High School took off to Los Angeles to take part in a yearly journalism convention. This convention hosts many school journalism programs from around the country. The journalism convention lasted two days; the second day was dedicated to journalism sessions in multiple classrooms where people discussed new features or touch ups on tips for writing like true journalist.

When the students arrived and made their way to the hotel and the conventions main floor, the students were able to walk freely among the many table. The floor was filled with many college officials and yearbook lookbooks. The college tables setup up were from all around the country and were all based on journalism arts.

The following day the students returned to the convention hotel where they attended sessions with a multitude of topics to learn about dealing with the proper ways to write to yearbook editing. These were the sessions where many of the students taking part in could choose whether they would prefer to participate in one class or another of their preference.

Chloe Bender, a Lewis-Palmer High School sophomore. A student on the school’s yearbook staff who attended the convention with the others.

“The trip to LA was really fun all together and I am really glad I was able to attend the trip and the convention with other journalism enthusiast. I loved being able to learn more tips and tricks to apply to next years yearbook production.” Bender Said.

During the journalism convention, there were professional journalist that could take people’s yearbooks they published to critique them and give positive feedback to help improve in whatever areas that may need to improvement.

Josh Matalus, a Lewis-Palmer High School sophomore. Matalus is as well on the school’s yearbook staff and was as well as one of the students who went to the journalism convention.

“I am really glad I was able to attend this year’s journalism convention trip and learn new things to apply for my upcoming years in my yearbook class. It was very helpful to get feedback from the journalist there and to get critiqued because it showed what to really grow on and improve.“ Said Matalus.

The journalism trip as a whole was packed with many fun and educational activities to help students from around the country get better with their journalistic and editing skills. The Lewis-Palmer High School students returned back home on Sunday, April 17th and are anxious to see what the upcoming yearly conventions will hold.