Pacesetter Awards

Published: Sunday, September 20, 2009

Updated: Sunday, April 11, 2010 19:04

The Pacesetter Award is a sweepstakes award to honor the top four schools in mail-in and on-the-spot competition at the annual convention.

Schools must win a newspaper general excellence or online general excellence award to qualify. Qualifying schools receive sweepstakes awards for newspaper mail-in competitions, bring-in competitions and on-the-spot competitions.

Magazine competitions are not included.

Schools receive points for each eligible award they win:

Unranked general excellence = 5 points

Unranked meritorious = 3 points

First place = 5 points

Second place = 4 points

Third place = 3 points

Fourth place = 2 points

Honorable mention = 1 point

See individual State Convention awards pages for winners.

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