Nearly 200 high school students from across Montana filled the halls of the University of Montana School of Journalism on Thursday, March 22 for the annual Montana Journalism Education Association awards and High School Journalism Day at UM.
Students took home awards at the awards banquet and then skills and knowledge from eleven different workshops, ranging from TV production to telling stories with Instagram, offered by School of Journalism professors.
To download and see the full list of High School Journalism Day awards, click here.
Below, you’ll find a gallery of some of the moments we captured at High School J-Day. Click on any image to view the gallery.

UM President Seth Bodnar opens High School Journalism Day at the University of Montana: “We live in a time when it’s very, very easy to stay within your echo chamber … to talk to people who only share the same view … to hear very narrow perspectives. Today, journalism is even more important, I would argue, than it’s ever been. Because, journalism is about telling the stories of the world and communicating information in an effective, informed way.” Photo by Lido Vizzutti.