The Upstart

Sparty Winner: Taking Your Yearbook to the Edge

Cover End Sheet

Sparty: Covering the Workshop

Our very own James “The Dude” Giardina’s Sparty-award-winning work

Sparty Winner: You’re Designing the Newspaper

John Sisser Roadkill

Entertainment Coverage: Waiting for Superman Review

Waiting and waiting for Superman to show up, and he never does. That’s everyday reality for public school students who actually come to school to learn, and our teachers are failing them. Waiting for Superman directed by David Guggenheim, sheds light on our American school system and it’s tremendous shortcomings.

Feature Coverage: Censorship at Ithaca High School Causes Problems with Readership

Two student suicides in the same year.
A local cell phone store employee committing a crime.
Junior high students leading a protest in the school’s halls.

Taking Your Yearbook to the Edge: Novi H.S.

Yearbook endsheet design for the theme, “Out of the Box”. Created by students from Novi High School in Pam Bunka’s Taking Your Yearbook to the Edge class.

Jamie Flanagan’s Entertainment Coverage Sports Briefs

News Briefs from Jamie Flanagan’s Entertainment Coverage class from the MSU athlete press conference.

Survey: Will you come to a MIPA workshop again?

Tell us about whether or not you’re coming back for the MIPA Summer Workshop 2011.

Jeremy Whiting’s Top 5

“Uploading Content to the Web” teacher Jeremy Whiting talks about the Top 5 things he wants his students to learn during his class.