Plainfield East Students Take 1st At Journalism Competition

PLAINFIELD, IL — Plainfield East High School juniors Alexandra “Lexie” Rudolph and Julia Nawa earned first place in Yearbook Theme Development at the Illinois High School Association state journalism competition.

In all, 21 student journalists from Plainfield East, Plainfield South and Plainfield High School – Central Campus participated at the state event, held April 26 at Heartland Community College in Normal.

These five students from Plainfield High School-Central Campus and PEHS took top 10 honors at the competition:

• PEHS: Delaney Drummond, senior, earned fourth place in Photo Storytelling.
• PHSCC: Elizabeth Hsieh, senior, second in Editorial Writing; Paige Gieske, junior, and Jude Mendoza, senior, second in Video News; and Iris Wright, senior, fifth in Copy Editing.

District 202’s state participants included:

PHSCC

• Hannah Kopek, junior
• Hannah Darbro, senior
• Stephanie Wallace, junior
• Isabel Taylor, junior
• Stephanie Wallace, junior
• Raven Easterly, sophomore

PSHS

• Mia Emerson, sophomore
• James Dralle, senior
• Emily Sherrill, senior
• Juvenal “Juve” Angulo, sophomore
• Alicja Stec, senior

PEHS

• Jarod Obando, senior
• Natalie Hua, sophomore
• Shania Zavadsky, senior

Submitted by District 202