Entourage Yearbooks announces 13th annual National Yearbook Contest

Entourage Yearbooks announced the winners of The 13th annual Entourage Yearbooks National Yearbook Competition, a national contest that judges school yearbooks on the dimensions of creativity, originality, and journalistic relevance. MOre than 800 entries were submitted by hundreds of schools enter across all 50 states at the Elementary, Middle School, and High School levels. To participate, schools had to submit their yearbook content into categories for the overall yearbook, page design, photography, and cover design.

This year, a new video category was added to the Entourage Yearbooks Yearbook Competition to promote creativity and school spirit. Applicants were encouraged to share videos of Yearbook Distribution, unboxing, passing out the books, and promoting why their school loves yearbooks. The winning school was Monache High School.

“This book was strongly inspired by scrapbook and Polaroid,” said Monache High School’s Francisco Velazquez, “We began with a brainstorming activity, trying to move away from strictly template-based designs and use something a bit more original. We started by creating our templates completely from scratch, but most students struggled to keep things in order, so we moved to find a template that had a clean, and orderly look. Then, we began manipulating it to look the way that we wanted it to look. It took a great deal of work, but using aesthetics from the 80s, polaroid themes, and some ransom letters to complete the scrapbook look, we finished our idea and published it.”

Other High School winners include New Brunswick High School (2nd Place), Hopi Junior Senior High School (3rd Place), Veritas Classical School – Alpharetta (4th Place), and Oakley Jr/Sr High School (5th Place). Entourage also recognized Grand Prize Middle School winner Anderson County Jr. High School and Grand Prize Elementary School winner Blessed Sacrament Catholic School.

The contest entries are judged based on a balanced rating across the dimensions of creativity, originality, and journalistic relevance. Schools are judged separately at the Elementary, Middle, and High School levels. The judging committee comprises expert yearbook journalists at Entourage and invited yearbook experts from across the industry.

See the full gallery of winners here