Gold Circle Awards for Individual Students
Presented by the Columbia Scholastic Press Association, Gold Circle Awards are offered to recognize superior work by student journalists usually as individuals but sometimes as an entire staff working with either print or online media. Click on the highlighted titles below to visit the work
2020 Nia Paz: 1st Place Essay "Portraits"
Julie Fontes: 1st Place Single Illustration "Silver Moonlight"
Jalynn McDuffey: 2nd Place Portfolio Illustration
Elisa Taylhardat: CM Cover Design "A World Flipped Upside Down"
2019 Nicole Marino: 1st Place Interview "Looming Peril"
Sophia Lord: CM "A Collection of Women" typography
Michelle Huang: CM "In the Space Between" typography
2018 Daniela Hernandez-Gil: 1st place open free form poetry “#me-too"
2017 Ericka Cantin: 1st place single illustration hand drawn “Nick"
2016 Nicole Garcia: 1st place non-fiction column “Fabula Rasa
Karla Infante: 1st place photography “Where is the Light
Patrick Martin: 3rd place Cover Design
Itara Moore: CM “The Atheist" Open free-form poetry
2015 Amy Meltzer: 1st place “Schrodinger’s University" poetry
Brian Ransom: 1st place “Playing the Hand" non-fiction interview
Sancia Noriega: 2nd place “Picking Scabs,” Essays
Pulastya Bagga: 3rd place “Fictional Friend," Essays
Amy Meltzer: CM “Without You I Write Candy-Coated Haikus,” humor
2014 Nathalie Francis
Jake Pivnik: 1st place cover design
Aneres Williams: 1st place “Mistake,” essay
Valentina Misas: 2nd place “The Composer,” Traditional Fiction
Anyssa Chebbi: 3rd place “Stay Golden" Humor
Josie Lo Bello: CM “Theodore,” Traditional Fiction
2013 Yinimi Galego: CM “Stay" Single Illustration Hand-Drawn
Jurissa Tellez: CM Portfolio Illustration "All the Ifs", "Golden Girl", "Red", "Sketchbook"
2012 Carolina Beguiristain: 2nd place "Boy Problems," Cartoon
Hannah Pustejovsky: CM "The love of my life," Non-Fiction Interview
Rebecca Raskin CM "White Blank Page" Traditional Fiction
2009 Noel Kassewitz: 1st place “Bestial Ramifications" illustration black and white Tatiana Jackson: 2nd Place "Lait" Single illustration not based on photography
Raquel Kidd: 2nd place Portfolio “Pyre of Knowledge; Violinist; Some Lucky Kid;
Andrea Espinosa: 3rd place “Sourtongue,” Cartoon
Audrey Gonzalez: CM Portfolio “Blinded", On the Back of My Mind, Choke, Vegetables,”
Raye Ng: CM “Survive," Photograph
2007 Carmen Guillen Casal: 2nd Place “Old Age,” Illustration
Alina Balaguero: 2nd Place Portfolio "Hacking Into the Main Frame"
"Major David Rozelle" "Amish School Shooting"
Alina Balaguero : 2nd Place "This is a Disjointed Spy Story,” Cartoon
Mariohn Michel: CM “The History of History,” open free-form poetry
2006 Martine Powers: 1st Place “Never Again,” Free Form Poetry
Allyson Jones: 1st Place “These Hands,” Single Photograph that complements copy
Alina Balaguero: 1st Place “Bees Whacks" Cartoon
Adrianna Arintok: 2nd Place “Pocket Troll,” Single Illustration that complements copy
Carmen Guillen-Casal: 3rd Place “Peggy Sue Faces Oblivion,” single illustration that
complements copy
Gretta Martinez,: CM “Red Balloon,” Single illustration rendering photographic material
2005 Nick Kallergis: 3rd place “Culture,” Single Photograph that complements copy
Christina Jay : CM " The Leslie II,” Single illustration