Student magazine wins award

Hampton - Tapestry, Kittatinny Regional High School’s literary magazine, wove together an award-winning publication last year. The 28th-annual issue won a first place standing in the American Scholastic Press Association’s judging of high school literary magazines nationwide. “We really gave it our all last year, and I couldn’t be more impressed with the final outcome,” remarked Chelsea Melisa Maldonado, a co-editor of the magazine last year and now a freshman at the University of Scranton. “It was definitely worth all the effort and hard work.” Her co-editor Kristin Jeanne Prommel, now a freshman at Pennsylvania State University, chalked up the magazine’s achievement to leadership and teamwork. “Everyone was very focused and willing to work when we needed the most work done,” she explained. The magazine received 920 out of a possible 1,000 points based on content, organization, design, presentation, and creativity. “Your magazine shows the efforts of talented and creative editors, writers, artists, photographers, layout designers, staff members and advisor,” a magazine judge stated. The theme of last year’s magazine was paradox. In an introduction, Maldonado and Prommel noted teenagers are “walking paradoxes.” “We are the ones who think we know all the answers, but we still are learning and developing. We have this ambition to fit in and be accepted by our peers, yet we also want to stand out and be noticed. We want to achieve our goals, but lack the motivation to follow through,” the two wrote. English teacher and literary magazine advisor Patricia Paugh said Maldonado and Prommel demonstrated strong leadership skills from the very start. “These two young women are immensely talented. They had a vision and worked hard to achieve it. I know they will be successful in whatever they do based on their strong commitment to Tapestry,” she said.