Wingspan staff awarded top honors at district broadcast competition
Several Wingspan and WTV students brought home awards from the 2nd Annual Frisco-ISD Broadcast Competition
January 26, 2023
An array of Wingspan staff members hold up their awards after competing at the 2nd Annual Frisco ISD Journalism Competition Tuesday and Wednesday at the CTE Center. The team was able to earn several honors, including Best Website and Best of Show.
Senior Alex Trevino poses with his award for 3rd place in the district Broadcast Sports News Package.
Wingspan Executive Producers Karina Grokhovskaya (left) and Varun Saravanan (right) share second place for the General Broadcast News Package. The pair was also able to place 1st for the Online Multimedia Story.
Wingspan Executive Producers Varun Saravanan and Karina Grokhovskaya stand alongside Editor-in-Chief Athena Tseng as they take home 1st place in the Online Multimedia Story.
Wingspan staff member Ryan Shapiro smiles with his first place award in the Sports Highlight Reel category.
“Competing allowed me to improve my skills under pressure as we only have a certain amount of time to complete our story,” Wingspan Editor-in-Chief, senior, Athena Tseng said. “I think the benefits are getting practice and experience. This year we had speakers so it was interesting to hear about their journey and the real-life experience in the field.”
Journalism students throughout the district competed in the 2nd Annual Frisco ISD Journalism Competition Tuesday and Wednesday at the CTE Center with Wingspan and WTV Students earning top honors including Best Website and Best of Show.
“I’m incredibly proud of all the students,” teacher Brian Higgins said. “We’ve done really well each of the two years but this year was extremely competitive with many of the Frisco schools doing well.”
Students were given prompts Tuesday morning and had approximately five hours to research, conduct interviews, and prepare their contest entries without any help from their teachers.
“Competing allowed me to improve my skills under pressure as we only have a certain amount of time to complete our story,” Wingspan editor-in-chief, senior, Athena Tseng said. “I think the benefits are getting practice and experience. This year we had speakers so it was interesting to hear about their journey and the real life experience in the field.”
After competing on Tuesday, local media professionals spent Wednesday morning speaking to the journalism students. At the end of the day, there was an awards ceremony with students celebrating their participation and success.
“I think competition helps everybody rise to the occasion and that was definitely true in this case,” WTV Producer, sophomore, Lauren Pratt said. “When you have something to fight for, in this case a title, you want it bad. You’re going to do your very best in order to succeed.”
