INSTRUCTIONS

PLEASE READ INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY (Final entry deadline is Oct. 17).

1. Look at the list of categories and determine which you will enter and how many entries you will have for each category.
2. Go to the bottom of this list of instructions and find the 2020 Yearbook Excellence Contest Entry Form. That is how your school enters the contest.
3. Once you have filled out and submitted the Yearbook Contest Entry Form, that space on this page will be replaced by the Yearbook Student Entry Form. That is how you will submit as many entries as you’d like.
4. Payment instructions are on the Contest Entry Form, and payments should be made within two weeks of entry.
5. Make sure your entries are accessible via a link to an online file or a folder that judges may easily access. In the case of Theme Development and photo categories, two or more files may be stored in a folder, so make sure you have a link to that folder.
6. If you have 40 entries or fewer, you will need to use the Student Entry Form only once. If you have 41 to 80 entries, the form will tell you how to start a second session with the form.
7. Every school may submit one Theme Development entry and as many entries as it would like in the other categories.
8. You may pay via check, purchase order or credit card. Instructions for payment are at the end of the entry form. However, here is a link to the Quill and Scroll online pay site. There’s also a button below this section.

CATEGORIES

COVID-19 Note: We do not have a separate category for COVID-19 coverage, but we suspect that much or your coverage of the pandemic will fit in student life, academics, club/organizations, sports and/or people, depending on the focus on a particular spread.

Read about each of the 18 categories here.

McKinney High School (Texas) and Calvary Day School (Georgia) have earned Staff Excellence Blue and Gold Awards for their overall performance in the 2019 Quill and Scroll Yearbook Excellence Contest.

The Blue and Gold Awards note the best high school journalism offers. Winners of this prestigious award have distinguished themselves in visuals and/or writing categories in the regular Yearbook Excellence Contest. The following schools earned 2019 Blue and Gold Awards based on their staffs’ overall performance in the Yearbook Excellence Contest. The Staff Excellence Blue and Gold represents the best overall. Congratulations to this year’s Blue and Gold yearbooks.

Below the Blue and Gold winners see a link to the list of the National Winners, who all are eligible for Quill and Scroll scholarships.

Class A (Schools with enrollments of 750 or more students)

Staff Excellence

• McKinney High School, McKinney, Texas

Comprehensive Visuals

• McKinney High School, McKinney, Texas
• Lawrence High School, Lawrence, Kansas
• Westlake High School, Austin, Texas

Comprehensive Writing

• Texas High School, Texarkana, Texas
• Shawnee Mission Northwest High School, Shawnee, Kansas
• Wando High School, Mount Pleasant, South Carolina

Class B (Schools with enrollments of fewer than 750 students)

Staff Excellence

• Calvary Day School, Savannah, Georgia

Comprehensive Visuals

• Richland R-1 High School, Essex, Missouri
• Minnehaha Academy, Minneapolis, Minnesota
• Savannah Christian Preparatory School, Savannah, Georgia

Comprehensive Writing

• Calvary Day School, Savannah, Georgia
• Christ Presbyterian Academy, Nashville, Tennessee
• Geneva School of Boerne, Boerne, Texas