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This image by Kennedy Weatherby earned first place in the feature photo category in ILPC competition against 5A schools. It also won Tops in Texas after being judged as superior to the first-place winners in the other UIL size categories. ABOUT THE PHOTO: Senior Michael Valentino participated in the LBJ Fire Academy’s live fire-skill day on Sept. 25. After a full year of learning about fires, extinguishers, equipment and how to use it, Valentino put out his first live fires. “I ended up doing the nozzle, he said. I was the first person in line, which was super cool. Photo by Kennedy Weatherby.

MacJ leaves ILPC with Gold and Silver Stars in hand

May 8, 2022
MacJournalisms fortunes in the Quill and Scroll International Writing, Photography and Multimedia Contest were aided greatly by international first-place finishes in each of the four major categories of the contest: design (Alysa Spiro, editorial page design), writing (Madelynn Niles, review writing), multimedia (Alice Scott, documentary video) and photography (Anna McClellan, cartoon).

MacJ brings home fourth Blue and Gold Award in past five years

April 3, 2022
Sophie Kessler won Best in Show in the club photo category of the SIPA Visual Contest for this image of the band placing sixth at UIL state last November.

MacJournalism competes well at SIPA convention

March 13, 2022
Beverly Evans stands with longtime departmental colleagues Helaine Brockington and Paula Hockaday at her retirement luncheon in Margaret Smiths classroom on Dec. 15.

Evans created enduring Mac impact by putting students first

January 2, 2022
On May 14, the McCallum cafeteria was the site of a vaccine clinic for anyone 12 years or older. The clinic was sponsored by the Austin Latino Coalition and the U.S. Hispanic Contractors Association. The clinic delivered first-dose Pfizer vaccine shots to 383 arms.

Austin-Travis County adopts Stage 4 COVID risk factor

December 29, 2021
Described as courteous and soft-spoken in her high school days (left), Margie Hendricks Bedford gracefully carried the burden of bringing integration to Mac. As an adult (left), she made a positive impact on the Del Valle schools as a parent volunteer and on the Austin schools by teaching parenting classes.

Mac’s first Black student, distinguished Austin ISD employee dies at 81, leaving legacy of change, kindness

August 22, 2021
For the second stage of the project, six parents and four students cleaned up the courtyard between the science labs and the foreign language hall and added 10 more picnic tables. They also added 10 Adirondack chairs in front of the main building.

All the world’s a lunchroom

August 20, 2021
Because the seven-day average for COVID-19 hospital admission reached 50, Austin Public Health invoked the Stage 5 risk factor, the highest risk level on the scale.

Austin Public Health invokes Stage 5 COVID risk factor

August 1, 2021
MacJ reels in 3 STAR, 3 Tops in Texas awards from ILPC

MacJ reels in 3 STAR, 3 Tops in Texas awards from ILPC

May 8, 2021
JUST SMART: Seniors Danielle Atwood, Lia Jones, Brooke Miller and Kyla Gibson, and junior Vivian Odoms volunteer to go on stage during Dr. Leonard Moore’s fourth-period talk. Gibson said that being a person of color has impacted her experiences at school “In AP classes the teachers are always like, ‘Oh my God we love you, you’re so smart.’ But there’s always that stereotype of “you’re smart for a black person,” Gibson explained. “I just want to be smart for being smart.” Photo by Regan Sims.

Social justice reporting 2: Black History Month

June 19, 2020
Russo, Tibbetts and Niles each earned a first-place finish at the UIL At-Home Academic Experience and as a result advanced to the second round of the online competition set up because the traditional UIL academic competitions were shelved to inhibit the spread of the coronavirus. Photos by Shella Shenkman.

3 MacJournalists win at-home UIL academic contest

May 8, 2020
Caleb Melville won first place in the yearbook sport feature photo category of the 2020 Columbia Scholastic Press Association Gold Circle Award competition. In the photo, Coach G gets a Gatorade shower following the Knights decisive win over Crockett in a game that all but punched the Knights ticket to the 2018 playoffs. Photo by Caleb Melville.

MacJournalists earn 19 CSPA Gold Circle Awards

April 9, 2020
Adviser Dave Winter, co-editor in chief Sophie Ryland and staff reporter Alex Dowd pose with the staffs STAR awards and Rylands Dewitt C. Reddick Memorial Scholarship, all received at the ILPC final awards ceremony on Sunday at the LBJ Auditorium. Photo by Caleb Melville.

MacJournalism captures three Star Awards, including online Gold, plus six Tops in Texas honors

May 5, 2019
The Southern Interscholastic Press Association annual convention was held last weekend at the University of South Carolina in Columbia.

SIPA awards MacJournalism 20 Best Writing honors

March 4, 2019
The sweepstakes award from Quill and Scroll is the latest award for Robison and Irwin, the dynamic duo of the 2017-2018 fourth-period journalism class.

Dynamic Knight duo strikes again

February 9, 2019
After McCallum beat Calallen, 20-7, to make it to the fifth round of playoffs, senior Max Perez and Coach Thomas Gammerdinger celebrate the historic win. “The feeling of winning this game is indescribable,” Perez said. “Calallen is a really good team and that win just proved to us we were just as good and better. It really showed how much our hard work paid off, and I couldn’t be happier.” This image was part of Madisons yearbook photo portfolio that won a First Place 2019 CSPA Gold Circle Award. Gregory James online story about the game also won a first place Gold Circle Award. Photo by Madison Olsen.

CSPA awards MacJournalism 17 Gold Circle Awards

February 2, 2019
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