From movies to books to basketball courts, the CSPA -- and its predecessor, the Scholastic Sports Association -- has alumni with interesting stories worth telling. CSPA Blogger is where those stories are shared.
The story of the California Scholastic Press Association journalism workshop was shared on the Cal Poly website.
Said Cal Poly journalism professor Bill Loving: “This program shows why journalism will always be a vital part of society.”
To read the complete story, visit Cal Poly’s website.
Even Carmageddon couldn’t stop us.
The 2011 edition of the CSPA High School Journalism Workshop has opened. Twenty-four students have reported to Cal Poly San Luis Obispo for the start of the workshop, and within hours found themselves in a classroom learning the nuts and bolts of journalism.
During the course of the two-week workshop, students will be creating content on their own blogs. Some content will be assignments by the many instructors they will meet. Other additions may be ideas generated by the students themselves. The best of it all will appear here.
Please check back often to view the work. The complete archive can be found by clicking 2011 Best of Student Blogs in the menu at the top of each page (it’s nested under 2011 Workshop) or by clicking here.
Dear Workshop participant,
This will be one of our final messages prior to the start of the 60th annual CSPA journalism workshop at Cal Poly in beautiful San Luis Obispo on Sunday, July 17.
Our workshop is the finest high school journalism seminar in the nation. The reason? All instructors volunteer their time. They volunteer because they have a sincere desire to help the next generation of journalists. Most of our faculty attended this same journalism workshop when they were in high school and they know the value of our curriculum. Not only do they volunteer their time, but most pay their own expenses.
Our dorm is Lassen Hall. Check-in for the workshop will be between 2 p.m. and 3 p.m. on Sunday, July 17 in room 1. Classes will begin at 4 p.m. Students traveling by bus, train or plane who made advance notification will be picked up at the station or airport.
Did you stay in Heron Hall? Lassen Hall? Walk to the theatre with Ralph? Lose to Larry in softball? Spend 13 days eating Poly burgers? Cover the Glenn Ellis O’Conner trial?
If you attended the CSPA (or SSA/IPA) Workshop or volunteered as an instructor, you’re part of the family, part of six decades’ worth of memories and success stories. To celebrate our 60th anniversary, the CSPA is having a reunion picnic during this year’s workshop, on Saturday, July 23, in San Luis Obispo.
The picnic, to be held from 2-6 p.m. at Cuesta Canyon County Park — slightly southeast of the Cal Poly campus — will include a full catered meal. More importantly, it’s a chance to reconnect with the instructors and classmates who have helped make CSPA special. Read more »
