Nancy Smith, Hanford High School:
We had an open house in our publications room last year: food for visitors, students at computers showing selected pages from the yearbook (tantalizing), students laying out the newspaper, mini-posters lined the room--quotations about free speech/free press that students designed. This year we'll do the same, adding our black armbands to the mix.

Linda Evanchyk, Choctawhatchee High School:
For the past couple years, my newspaper staff and I have hosted an event called, "Have lunch with a student journalist." We will do this again this year. Each student on the staff chooses one teacher to invite to lunch. We just happen to have a great home economics food lab here and we work with that teacher and those students. They make the lunch and charge us a small fee. Part of the lunch the students make short presentations on some aspect of scholastic journalism. This year, obviously, we will make a presentation on the Tinker Decision. Also, our school has been around for awhile, so we are going to make a display in our media center of journalistic artifacts we to show the progression of the student press. An event I am hoping to organize is to invite the editors, publishers and reporters from our local newspaper and have a discussion with the students on the future of newspapers.

Cathy Wall, Harrisburg High School:
In the early Feb. edition we run an entry form that promotes SJW and asks some simple questions about the newspaper that the student body can fill out and submit to win daily prizes and the grand prize (last year we did itunes cards and a shuffle for a grand prize).
 
We also put up posters around the school promoting scholastic journalism and the first amendment.
 
On Friday, we have a party. Last year we catered sandwiches and appetizers from a local grill.
 
We also make our contribution to SPLC that week if we haven't already done that.
 
This year we plan to do all the same things, but we will also be wearing the Tinker Ann. armbands and the event is a little more meaningful as the students are embroiled in the controversy over the board forcing a style change because they didn't like the content of the paper in December.

Luke Christisen, Director of Marketing,
Francis Howell North High School Publications:
We plan on celebrating scholastic journalism in a big way. We want to kick off the week by greeting students on their way into school with candy that has stickers say "Happy scholastic journalism week" we will also be having special announcements each day. We are going to have Tinker anniversary armbands available for students interested and we will be hosting a contest through our staffs for students in school to win prizes. We are also going to hang up posters and keep a positive attitude.

Ann Visser, Pella Community High School:
Pella High School will celebrate this year with each staff taking responsibility for planning a day. We will have First Amendment posters on each locker at the first of the week, and we'll distribute First Amendment cookies to faculty and staff as a small thank you for the help and support they give us. In the past, we had a Wii tournament one day after school. We've also had a baby picture contest where faculty/staff have brought in their oldies but goodies, and we've set up a contest. Students loved it. Additionally, we try to do some sort of spot on the local radio station as well as a story in the local newspaper.