Greenhill journalism students recently won awards from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association for their work.   

Senior Aria Kutty and Evie Kwei submitted journalistic work to the CSPA the previous summer.   

“We submitted all the issues from the 2023-24 year,” Kutty said. “We also submitted some of our favorite individual stories and pages for individual awards.”   

Both the paper as a whole and many of the individual submissions earned high places.   

“The paper won a silver crown for overall print publication,” Kutty said. “I had no idea that it was going to actually happen, so it was pretty cool and very unexpected.”  

Individual students whose work was submitted won awards as well.  

Senior Christan Park won second place for single subject news, a feature package and an honorable mention for single subject news or feature package.   

Senior Varun Mukund, Kwei, and junior Noor Zaman earned third place in general feature for news.   

Additionally, Kutty and sophomore Vivian White won first place in personality profile for news with their senior profile on Arjun Melwani ’24.  

“[Melwani] did a lot of cool stuff like working on startups, and I knew I wanted to interview him for a while,” Kutty said.  

Kutty said she was excited to hear about the story earning first place.   

“I texted Arjun and he got really excited too,” Kutty said. “It is cool to see the work pay off now that I’m kind of finished with the Evergreen.”   

After being awarded first place for her story, Kutty said she was grateful for the recognition.   

“I was happy to see actual tangible evidence that I was doing something right,” Kutty said. “It was cool to see our work pay off with national recognition.”  

After this year Kutty said she hopes the paper will continue being submitted to the CSPA.  

“We had not done this in a few years, but hopefully we keep it going next year,” Kutty said.