Cape's Valhalla yearbook wins two awards at camp
The school year is fast approaching. Athletes are training for the upcoming season, students are scrambling to get summer work finished and “yerds” (yearbook nerds) are completing the ladder to plan what goes on each page. From July 29-31, co-editors-in-chief Kylee Manganiello and Daniel Myers, and photo editor Madeline Bradshaw of the Cape Valhalla Yearbook staff were hard at work at Josten’s Yearbook Camp in Gettysburg, Pa.
With a track record of success - the 2012 yearbook won the first-place award for Best Yearbook Design in its division - the Cape staff decided that this was the year to go for it, literally. They signed up for Josten’s advanced Go For It! track, which the brochure says is “designed specifically for those staffs that are positioned for and aspire to produce the highest levels of journalistically focused yearbooks.” The majority of time was spent in one small session entirely devoted to planning out the yearbook in minutiae.
The Go For It! track was intense. “Yearbook camp this year was probably the hardest one I have attended. I feel like we all got so much done,” said junior Daniel Myers. Sophomore Madeline Bradshaw seconded that sentiment. "It was awesome and challenging." The moment of truth came at the awards ceremony that closed the camp.
To the staff's surprise and delight, Valhalla yearbook walked away with two awards in the new division: second place for Best Theme, Concept, Look Development & Presentation, and third place for Best Content, Coverage, Spread Topic Development, Staff Organization & Job Descriptions. Adviser Amie King admitted, “I wasn’t actually expecting to win anything. I was just proud we survived it!”
To purchase a 2013 Cape Valhalla yearbook, contact Amie King at 302-645-7711, Ext. 2115 or amie.king@cape.k12.de.us. Yearbooks are $90, but are on sale first semester for just $75.
