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CONTESTS AND AWARDS

 

On this page you will find information about the various contests and awards offered by JACC. The links below lead to downloads of mail-in, on-the-spot and bring-in guidelines.


To the right see summaries of other awards offered by or through JACC. Clicking on the story headline not only defines more about the awards, but in many cases includes lists of past winners.


Winners of mail-in, on-the-spot and bring-in contests, including archives from previous years are listed on respective conference pages. (Many archives not available at web site launch, but will be added later.)


  

Two-Year Rule

Students may compete in JACC contests as many times as they want while they are students at JACC member schools. If you won a first-through-fourth place or meritorious/unranked mail-in or on-the-spot/bring-in award during or before the 2006 Regional Conference you CANNOT compete in mail-in or on-the-spot/bring-in as part of the 2009 Regional or later conference in the same class of contests.

CURRENT NEWS / INFO

2010 Team Feature Winner

Here is the winning Team Feature 2.0 slide show.

2010 Mail-in Results

Here are the results of the mail-in competitions for the 2010 State Convention. Also included is the Flash video presentation of the awards (about 90 mins).

2010 On-the-Spot Results

Here are the results of the Bring-In and On-the-Spot awards from the 2010 State Convention. (Includes some of the visual entries.)

CONTEST INFORMATION

List of Contests

This is a list of JACC's contests, listed by type and class. See the individual guidelines pages for rules for each contest.

Mail-In Contest Criteria

Here are the contest criteria for all of JACC's mail-in contests. Entries must be received by June 30, 2010. Also look at these guidelines for how to prepare your entries.


NorCal entries should be sent to:


Paul DeBolt
Contra Costa College
2600 Mission Bell Drive
San Pablo, CA 94806


SoCal entries should be sent to:


Danny Edwards
7301 Budge Way
Bakersfield CA 93309


The regional $50 mail-in entry fee should go to:


JACC
PO Box 163509
Sacramento, CA 95816

Preparation guidelines

Download this file for guidelines on how to prepare your mail-in entries for submission.

Contest Proposal Process/Form

JACC mail-in and on-the-spot/bring-in contests are designed to honor outstanding work by student journalists, as well as to help develop well-rounded student publications. Here is the process for adding or deleting contests.