Each year, School Newspapers Online (SNO) offers student journalism programs with outstanding online publications the opportunity to apply to become a SNO Distinguished Site. This month, the staff of Pleasant Valley High School's publication, Spartan Shield, earned this status.
Before being awarded the title of SNO Distinguished Site, Spartan Shield earned online digital badges in the areas of site excellence, story page design, writing, multimedia, coverage and audience engagement.
Representing what SNO sees as the six components of a modern news website, these six individual badges make up the SNO Distinguished Sites program. SNO started the SNO Distinguished Sites program to eliminate ambiguity and delineate standards of excellence for an online student news site.
Last year, just 72 schools earned all of the badges and the honor of becoming a SNO Distinguished Site.
Congratulations, Spartan Shield!
Explore the website that garnered this honor by visiting https://spartanshield.org/