2025 FIRST STATE HIGH SCHOOL COMMUNICATIONS CONTEST

Scroll down to HS Contest Award Winners to see the 2024 Delaware’s State and  National High School Contest Results

Delaware Press Association offers an annual statewide High School Communications Contest for student journalists / communicators, with an opportunity for first-place winners in the DPA contest to enter the NFPW national competition. From time to time we offer seminars and workshops for high school journalists and their advisers, focusing on issues such as ethics and editorial responsibility, the new technology, and First Amendment rights and responsibilities. We believe it is vital to support these bright young future communicators and citizens, and we treat them as professional colleagues.

PLEASE NOTE: Because current weather-related conditions have caused some schools to delay January publication, we are extending the publication eligibilty period for the 2025 High School Communications Contest. The 2025 competition will cover anything published between Feb. 1, 2024, and Feb. 15, 2025. However, the submission deadline of NOON, Wednesday, Feb. 19  in your time zone remains in place. Schools publishing in early February will have to submit their entries into the contest quickly.

DPA HS Contest Director: Lydia Timmins   Contact: 302-521-4784; Lydiat@udel.edu

Please read the Rules, Guidelines, and How-to-enter information below
before clicking either link below to access the contest site.

CREATE DPA FIRST STATE HS COMMUNICATIONS CONTEST ACCOUNT

The first time you go to the contest site, the HS Adviser will use the link above to create a contest account. Note: If you set up a contest account in a previous year, use the link below instead.
Where you see “Click here to register, if you don’t already have a username/password,” click “here,” enter your email address (which will become your username) in the “New Users” section, click Register, and retrieve an email from NFPW for creating your password. Once you have established the account, thereafter use the link below to access the contest.