There are more than 100 ways you can use your journalistic talent to serve your school, your community and your student body. As part of the JEA Centennial celebration, JEA wants to recognize your good work that benefits others and perhaps reward you for it.

Here’s how it works:

1. Analyze your school and/or your community to determine an area(s) where you and your staff could make a difference. It could be a specific issue like homelessness, election coverage, peer pressure, media literacy, First Amendment issues, conducting workshops or a camp for other schools or groups within your school. The list of possibilities is limited only by your vision and creativity.
2. Develop a plan to implement your project. You might decide on a series of stories or a public service announcement, helping an organization with their social media or developing a curriculum for a workshop or camp. Again, it’s up to you and your staff to find the best way to implement your ideas.
3. Execute your plan, capturing photos and/or footage along the way. Document the number of hours you and your staff invest in the project to show us how you served your community. JEA does not expect or require any group to spend a full 100 hours. The name refers to a collective impact across the country. Your project might take 1 hour or 5 hours.
4. To be eligible, projects must take place between Nov. 1, 2023 and March 1, 2024. Deadline for submission is March 15, 2024.
5. A selection committee from JEA will review the applications and will select five schools to be awarded $100. All participants will be recognized at the Spring JEA/NSPA National High School Journalism Convention in Kansas City, April 4-6, 2024.

Participating in the 100 Hours of Service Journalism Project is a great way to use your skills to help someone else, unite your staff through collaboration and teamwork and earn positive recognition for your staff and your school.