Please read the message below from SCJEA President Adriana Chavira
Last night, our board agreed to cancel the SCJEA Student Media Contests planned for this Saturday March 14 at Fullerton College. We have been monitoring the coronavirus outbreak for the past week to determine if we were going to go on as planned for Saturday or postpone. Thank you to the advisers who have reached out and expressed their concerns, as well. Every day, the coronavirus outbreak seems to be spreading and affecting more events. While originally older people were more susceptible to the coronavirus, it looks like younger people are being affected and are in self-quarantine as local colleges & universities are moving classes online to minimize gatherings in public places.
As many of you know, the Columbia Scholastic Press Association spring conference planned for next week was canceled. Some school districts are canceling out-of-state travel, including Nashville for the national high school journalism convention next month. So to minimize any liability or exposure to our students and/or participants and judges, we decided to cancel this contest.
However, SCJEA is working on conducting video interviews for the scholarship applicants. Within the next 24 hours, I will contact the advisers and students who applied to give them an update on this process. California All-Stars winners will be mailed their certificates and plaques. We will post winners on our website soon. Since the photo entries are already in, those can be judged. In the next few days, I will send revised invoices to include any membership fee and photo entries only.
Please share this information with your students. I will also post on our Twitter and FB page later to ensure everyone is notified.
thank you,
Adriana Chavira
SCJEA President
@SoCalJEA
OCJEA 