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On Friday Dec. 16, 2022, advanced and AP biology teacher Gabriel Adame was honored as the 2023 Teacher of the Year. He was honored by principal Nicole Griffith and the assistant principals, as well as his fifth period students who were present for the surprise announcement.

Adame to return to Mac as an assistant principal

Shield staff reports
June 30, 2024
Members of the speech and debate team pose proudly with the first place team plaques for speech for spelling and vocabulary. On Saturday, the final day of the academic meet at Eastside, McCallum won both team competitions to finish with 563 points, more than enough for the team to defend the overall academic district title it won a year ago.

MACademics team defends District 24-5A title

Shield staff reports
April 10, 2024
JOY TO THE NATION: Senior Alice Scott, 2022-2024 Shield co-editor in chief, poses with Journalism Education Association president Valerie Kibler as they both hold her 2024 JEA Journalist of the Year award plaque; meanwhile, the audience in the Sheraton Kansas City Hotel at Crown Center Grand Ballroom sees the slide revealing that she has won the honor. JEA Journalism of the Year committee chair Joe Humphrey, who announced Scott as the winner, stands at the podium in the background. Photo by Bradley Wilson, Journalism Education Today editor.

Scott named JEA Journalist of the Year

Shield staff reports
April 7, 2024

Long-awaited Officer Bob Hershey’s commercial has finally dropped

Shield staff reports
May 30, 2023
Texas Association of Journalism Educators award Shield staffers 148 Best in Texas awards

Texas Association of Journalism Educators award Shield staffers 148 Best in Texas awards

Shield staff reports
April 24, 2023
Design and visuals editor Sophie Leung-Lieu earned four first-place awards and eight overall in the SIPA Best Visual Awards, including this first-place winner in the feature package category for the issue two centerspread design she did with fellow editors Naomi Di-Capua and Alice Scott.

Shield wins Scroggins Award for third straight year

Shield staff reports
March 14, 2023
Departure to Hanusovice from a wonderful old Austro-Hungarian station. Known during Austrian and Ostsudetenland times as Maehrisch Schoenberg. Apparently these class 831 railcars dating from the very late 1950s are still found on the same service 17 years later, albeit in a different livery. Credit to Sludge G on Flickr.

THROWBACK THURSDAY: Dr. Taborsky tells of “equal” Russians

Shield staff reports
November 10, 2022
A hat is acquired during the Boy Scouts' 100th annual pilgrimage to Valley Forge. Sixty years ago, an unnamed student and teacher participated in a similar event. Photo accessed on the Valley Forge National Hist. Park Flickr page. Reposted here under a creative commons license.

THROWBACK THURSDAY: ‘Callum gains national fame by winning Valley Forge Pilgrimage Award

Shield staff reports
November 3, 2022
Moments after the Fall Fiesta awards ceremony concluded, Shield co-editors in chief Alice Scott and Evie Barnard proudly display MacJ's three Best of Show awards and its third place overall sweepstakes award.

MacJ takes third place in Fall Fiesta sweepstakes

Shield staff reports
October 22, 2022
It may take some creativity to stay in touch with those we love but cannot see face to face during this pandemic, but it can be done. You just have to think outside the box you are quarantined in. Illustration by Evelyn Griffin.

McCallum journalism captures 46 TAJE Best in Texas awards for outstanding COVID-19 coverage

Shield staff reports
June 23, 2020
During Friday's NSPA live video broadcast, the Shield Online was named one of 16 2020 NSPA Online Pacemaker Award winners. It's the Shield's third straight Online Pacemaker Award.

Shield Online earns 3-peat Online Pacemaker Award

Shield staff reports
April 17, 2020
The college pennants outside the Gear-Up lab hang in an empty hallway on Tuesday as if they are markers for where the seniors will be when they next attend traditional classes.

Another post on the #MacSeniorWall2020

Shield staff reports
April 3, 2020
Sophomore Samantha Powers won Best of the Best in Texas in the TAJE Best of Texas Newspaper Awards for her issue 2 board editorial, "AISD unity act has opposite effect."

MacJ captures 164 TAJE Best in Texas Newspaper Awards

Shield staff reports
April 1, 2020
Gov. Abbott closes schools in Texas through May 4

Gov. Abbott closes schools in Texas through May 4

Shield staff reports
March 31, 2020
While the order did not specifically recommend school closures, the authority encourages that school districts "explore remote teaching and online options to continue learning."

City bans gatherings of 250 or more through May 1

Shield staff reports
March 15, 2020
On the same night that she shed the interim tag to become McCallum’s permanent principal, Brandi Hosack joins drum majors Jonah Brown and Dexter Canning and associate superintendent of high schools Dr. Craig Shapiro as the board recognizes the @mccallumband for being the only Austin ISD band to qualify for the UIL State Marching Championships.

By unanimous vote, AISD board approves Hosack as permanent Mac principal

Shield staff reports
December 17, 2019
Just about everything went flawlessly for the band on Saturday in Pflugerville: the morning rehearsal, the preliminary round in the afternoon, the final round at night all went Mac's way. The band finished first in a very competitive area for marching band.

Second to none

Shield staff reports
October 27, 2019
Students in Mr. Winter's third-period photojournalism class watch the 2011 documentary, Boatlift, which features first-hand accounts of the heroic effort of ordinary boat operators to rescue nearly half a million stranded New Yorkers in southern Manhattan in the wake of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center.

In the midst of celebrating homecoming week, students, teachers pause to remember 9/11

Shield staff reports
September 11, 2019
The team enjoyed a barrage of strikes at the end of their first practice game at Dart Bowl on Jan. 27. Photo by Sydney Amell.

East View edges MAC bowlers, 16-13

Shield staff reports
February 21, 2016
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