Winners announced for the 14th edition of the EL PAÍS de los ESTUDIANTES schools competition

The awards ceremony took place this afternoon in Madrid for the 14th edition of the EL PAÍS de los ESTUDIANTES schools competition (www.estudiantes.elpais.com), the program that fosters Journalism in the Classroom and which is sponsored by El País and Endesa. The scheme aims to promote teamwork and effort towards a specific goal: that of fostering freedom of expression and democratic values through journalism. 

Nearly 400 students from the 18 finalist schools attended the awards ceremony, held at the headquarters of El País. Also present were representatives of El País and Endesa, as well as the jury of journalists who praised participants’ hard work and announced the winners.

Students from around Spain formed teams to write, lay out and illustrate their own newspapers over the course of the recently completed school year. EL PAÍS de los ESTUDIANTES allows participating students to work in either print or digital format, meaning that students come to understand that, although the basics are the same, the resources at their disposal and how these should be deployed, need to be adapted to each format.

The winning schools were:

1st Prize - I.E.S. Rosalía de Castro (Santiago de Compostela, A Coruña) for the newspaper SCQ +

View the winners of the first prize in print and digital

2nd Prize - C.P.E.I.P.S. LUTHER KING (San Cristobal de la Laguna, Santa Cruz de Tenerife) for the newspaper La Expresión

View the winners of the second prize in print and digital

3rd Prize - I.E.S. VICENTE MEDINA (Archena, Murcia) for the newspaper LETRA A LETRA

View the winners of the third prize in print and digital

The prizes are:

A check to cover travel costs for the team worth € 12,000 for the winner of the 1st prize

A check to cover travel costs for the team worth € 9,000 for the winner of the 2nd prize

A check to cover travel costs for the team worth € 6,000 for the winner of the 3rd prize

In addition, each also received an additional check worth € 6,000 for in computers.

EL PAÍS de los ESTUDIANTES is committed to ensuring that future generations are socially aware of the environment. Thus, in collaboration with Endesa, the program honors the best section on the Environment. This year, the Endesa Energy Efficiency Award went to the IES BARRIO DE LORANCA (Fuenlabrada, Madrid) for their section in the newspaper La Lente de Loranca (see the winner of the Endesa Award in print and digital).

In addition to these awards, the program encourages and rewards the work of students through "Special Awards" in different categories:

Best Report: Rebeca Cuadrado and Carmela Gomez "Hacemos memoria para hacer justicia con el pasado”. C.P.E.I.P.S. LES CAROLINES. Picassent, Valencia.

Best Interview: Manuel de Castro, Pablo Rodriguez and Nikos Delmiro for their series of interviews with election candidates in Asturias. I.E.S. CANDÁS. Candas, Asturias.

Best Comic Strip: Ana Zarmora and Jhon Correa for “Mendigo”. I.E.S. ROSA CHACEL. Colmenar Viejo, Madrid.

Best Multimedia Content: Clara Elena Abenza, Javier Garrido, Encarnación Palazón, Ricardo Miñano and Jose Manuel Ortega for “Bullying, memorias de un adolescente”. I.E.S. VICENTE MEDINA. Archena, Murcia. 

Best Photography: Nicolás Aranda for “Entre las nubes”. C.P.E.I.P.S. LUTHER KING. San Cristobal de La Laguna. S.Cruz de Tenerife.

Best English Section: Ana Carreiras, Gonzalo Villaverde and Rita Villar for “The Theory of Everything”. I.E.S. ROSALÍA DE CASTRO. Santiago de Compostela, A Coruña.

Best Advertising: Patricia Macías and Alejandra Hernández for the ad “Yo soy”.  I.E.S. VIRGEN DEL CARMEN. Puerto Real, Cádiz.

Best Blog:  Paula Murga for “Poetisa de papel”. I.E.S. ESCULTOR DANIEL. Logroño, La Rioja

The winners in each special awards category each received a tablet.