Journalism Association of Community Colleges (JACC) hosted at Cerritos College, was held last Saturday, October 29 for student attending community colleges in southern California. The competition had five on-the-spot writing contests and featured workshops with experienced journalists.

The workshops were a great opportunity for journalism students to network with like-minded individuals.

El Paisano walked away with two awards, Diana Jaurez won fourth place in on-the-spot opinion writing, and Zackary Mejia won second place in on-the-spot critical writing.

“I honestly was’t expecting to hear my name be called out. I’ve never written a newspaper article before, but I trusted Professor Carrera when she told me I should compete in something beyond copy editing,” said Diana Juarez, copy editor for El Paisano.

“I was ecstatic about winning an award because it was my first time competing at a writing competition,” stated Zach Mejia, El Paisano’s managing editor, about his second place win.

El Paisano will be attending state championships in Sacramento spring 2017.