Columbus High School Wins the 1st Place High School Cover Design Award in the Yearbook Contest

PRINCETON, N.J. - Nov. 16, 2016 - PRLog -- Entourage Yearbooks announced their 6th Annual National Yearbook Competition awards, recognizing Columbus High Schoolfrom Downey, CA with the distinctive 1st Place High School Cover Design award.  The nationally sponsored contest, conducted by Entourage Yearbooks, judged school yearbooks in many facets including creativity, originality, and journalistic relevance.  Hundreds of schools entered across all fifty states at the Elementary, Middle School, and High School level.

"I'd like to offer my sincere congratulations to all of the schools that completed yearbooks and submitted entries into the yearbook contest this year," said Entourage's President Elias Jo. "Putting together a great yearbook takes a lot of time and dedication.  The award winners represent schools who clearly went above and beyond on their yearbook and deserve recognition for their work.  I'm personally blown away by the level of achievement this year."

This achievement recognized Columbus High School for putting together a notable yearbook at the High School level.  Their entry was submitted at the end of June 2016 and was officially awarded on November 1st, 2016.  The Columbus High School yearbook was selected from hundreds of schools who submitted entries from around the country.

Ms. Rooney, CHS Yearbook Advisor, said "I am so proud of the Columbus High School yearbook staff.  These kids work hard to create a professional product each year and for their work to be recognized by professional graphic artists is a real confidence booster.  Continuation high school students are often very talented and only lack confidence in their abilities.  This type of recognition can give our students the validation they need to believe in themselves and their talents.  Perhaps some of them will take their passion for the visual arts and make it a career path.  Congrats to the 2016 Columbus HS yearbook staff and a special congratulations to Kevin Ortega, Class of 2016, the student that created the award winning cover design!"

More about Entourage's National Yearbook Competition:

Started in 2011, this is the 6th year that the annual Entourage National Yearbook Competition has been held in recognition of schools with yearbooks created by students and school volunteers.  To participate, schools had to submit their yearbook content into categories for overall yearbook theme, page design, photography, and cover design.  This year, over 800 schools entered the competition.

Judging of the contest entries was based on a balanced rating across the dimensions of creativity, originality and journalistic relevance. Schools were judged at separate levels: Elementary, Middle School and High School. 1st through 3rd place winners in each category receive various prizes like cameras, yearbook cover upgrades, and Columbia Scholastic Press Association membership.

See the winning yearbooks by visiting the link below: http://www.entourageyearbooks.com/YearbookContest.asp.

About Entourage Yearbooks:

Founded in 2006, Entourage Yearbooks provides yearbooks to over 4,000 schools across the US and in 18 countries around the world.  Entourage's unique collaborative yearbook technologies and industry leading production times has made the company one of the fastest growing in the country, recently recognized by Inc. Magazine as the 17th fastest growing private education company in the US. For more information about Entourage Yearbooks, visithttp://www.entourageyearbooks.com