Quill & Scroll, the international honorary society for high school journalists, recently recognized the 2009-10 Carmel High School student newspaper with one of that organization’s highest awards. The HiLite earned an International First Place Award for superior achievement. Newspapers scoring between 900 and 1,000 total points in the evaluation earn that distinction. Carmel’s paper earned 914 points out of 1,000 and additionally earned superior achievements in four of the organization’s five individual categories – policy guidelines, coverage, display and design, and business practices.

In his critique comments, the anonymous judge called the HiLite “a professional looking publication.” Additionally, he said the newspaper’s design was “among the best I’ve seen among your peer group.”

Michelle Hu (Harvard University) was last year’s editor in chief. Rosemary Boeglin (Oberlin College) and Sarah Sheafer (College of Charleston) were last year’s managing editors.

Jim Streisel advises the HiLite.