{"id":8436,"date":"2026-01-08T14:35:48","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T19:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.montoursville.k12.pa.us\/thearrowhead\/?p=8436"},"modified":"2026-01-08T14:35:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T19:35:48","slug":"arrowhead-staff-showcase-skills-at-journalism-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montoursville.k12.pa.us\/thearrowhead\/2026\/01\/08\/arrowhead-staff-showcase-skills-at-journalism-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrowhead staff showcase skills at journalism competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8440\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8440\" style=\"width: 374px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8440\" src=\"http:\/\/www.montoursville.k12.pa.us\/thearrowhead\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/11\/IMG_4783-300x197.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"374\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.montoursville.k12.pa.us\/thearrowhead\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/11\/IMG_4783-300x197.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.montoursville.k12.pa.us\/thearrowhead\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/11\/IMG_4783-1024x672.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.montoursville.k12.pa.us\/thearrowhead\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/11\/IMG_4783-768x504.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.montoursville.k12.pa.us\/thearrowhead\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/11\/IMG_4783.jpeg 1179w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 374px) 100vw, 374px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8440\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sophomore Catherine Hittle works through her writing and editing packets during the PSPA Student Journalism Competition on October 23 at Bloomsburg University. Students had only 45 minutes to complete the prompt for their category.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8442\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8442\" style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8442\" src=\"http:\/\/www.montoursville.k12.pa.us\/thearrowhead\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/11\/IMG_4785-201x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"330\" height=\"493\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.montoursville.k12.pa.us\/thearrowhead\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/11\/IMG_4785-201x300.jpeg 201w, https:\/\/www.montoursville.k12.pa.us\/thearrowhead\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/11\/IMG_4785-768x1144.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.montoursville.k12.pa.us\/thearrowhead\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/11\/IMG_4785-1031x1536.jpeg 1031w, https:\/\/www.montoursville.k12.pa.us\/thearrowhead\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/11\/IMG_4785.jpeg 1179w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 330px) 100vw, 330px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8442\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Montoursville photojournalism competitor, sophomore Isaac Erlandson, frames a shot during the competition. Students were required to photograph the event, and if their initial submission gets them to states these are the photos that will be competing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8439\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8439\" style=\"width: 341px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8439\" src=\"http:\/\/www.montoursville.k12.pa.us\/thearrowhead\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/11\/IMG_4787-300x199.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"341\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.montoursville.k12.pa.us\/thearrowhead\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/11\/IMG_4787-300x199.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.montoursville.k12.pa.us\/thearrowhead\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/11\/IMG_4787-1024x681.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.montoursville.k12.pa.us\/thearrowhead\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/11\/IMG_4787-768x511.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.montoursville.k12.pa.us\/thearrowhead\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/11\/IMG_4787.jpeg 1179w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 341px) 100vw, 341px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8439\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students from across the area work through timed writing prompts during the competition. Students had limited time to complete their assignments, &#8220;<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was fun, I thought the prompt was very good,&#8221; said Catherine Hittle.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8438\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8438\" style=\"width: 369px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8438\" src=\"http:\/\/www.montoursville.k12.pa.us\/thearrowhead\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/11\/IMG_4786-300x194.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"369\" height=\"238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.montoursville.k12.pa.us\/thearrowhead\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/11\/IMG_4786-300x194.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.montoursville.k12.pa.us\/thearrowhead\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/11\/IMG_4786-1024x662.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.montoursville.k12.pa.us\/thearrowhead\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/11\/IMG_4786-768x496.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.montoursville.k12.pa.us\/thearrowhead\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/11\/IMG_4786.jpeg 1179w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 369px) 100vw, 369px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8438\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A participant concentrates on finalizing her article as students from multiple districts take part in the PSPA news and feature writing challenges.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8441\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8441\" style=\"width: 380px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8441\" src=\"http:\/\/www.montoursville.k12.pa.us\/thearrowhead\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/11\/IMG_4781-300x198.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"380\" height=\"251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.montoursville.k12.pa.us\/thearrowhead\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/11\/IMG_4781-300x198.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.montoursville.k12.pa.us\/thearrowhead\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/11\/IMG_4781-1024x677.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.montoursville.k12.pa.us\/thearrowhead\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/11\/IMG_4781-768x507.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.montoursville.k12.pa.us\/thearrowhead\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/11\/IMG_4781.jpeg 1179w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 380px) 100vw, 380px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8441\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Journalism student, Nadia Farenish, works on her PSPA assignment. &#8220;It was a new experience for me so I didn\u2019t know what to expect, but I had a lot of fun with people in journalism,&#8221; said Farenish.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8443\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8443\" style=\"width: 392px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8443\" src=\"http:\/\/www.montoursville.k12.pa.us\/thearrowhead\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/11\/IMG_4782-300x196.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"392\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.montoursville.k12.pa.us\/thearrowhead\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/11\/IMG_4782-300x196.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.montoursville.k12.pa.us\/thearrowhead\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/11\/IMG_4782-1024x670.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.montoursville.k12.pa.us\/thearrowhead\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/11\/IMG_4782-768x502.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.montoursville.k12.pa.us\/thearrowhead\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/11\/IMG_4782.jpeg 1179w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 392px) 100vw, 392px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8443\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seniors Lindsay Garber and Savanna Farley work on their assignments quickly, making sure to finish before the time is up. &#8220;The prompt was much better than last year, and I enjoyed my time with everyone in journalism,&#8221; said Catherine Hittle when talking about her experience at this year&#8217;s PSPA.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":834,"featured_media":8442,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","footnotes":"","_expiration-date-status":"saved","_expiration-date":1788760860,"_expiration-date-type":"draft","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":{"expireType":"draft","id":8436}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montoursville.k12.pa.us\/thearrowhead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8436"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montoursville.k12.pa.us\/thearrowhead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montoursville.k12.pa.us\/thearrowhead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montoursville.k12.pa.us\/thearrowhead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/834"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montoursville.k12.pa.us\/thearrowhead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8436"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.montoursville.k12.pa.us\/thearrowhead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8607,"href":"https:\/\/www.montoursville.k12.pa.us\/thearrowhead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8436\/revisions\/8607"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montoursville.k12.pa.us\/thearrowhead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montoursville.k12.pa.us\/thearrowhead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montoursville.k12.pa.us\/thearrowhead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montoursville.k12.pa.us\/thearrowhead\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}