The Rectorate of the Academy of Nice was the setting yesterday for the award ceremony of the school and high school newspaper competition of the Prix Varenne 2013. Orchestrated by Lilia Parisot, this competition is open to students, from kindergarten to high school, who produce a “paper” newspaper or an information site/blog during the school year.
The young aspiring journalists who won gathered to receive the diploma from the hands of Pierre-Raoul Vernisse, Secretary-General of the Academy representing Madame Rector Lovisi.
“This competition serves an educational purpose, encouraging open-mindedness among students, introducing them to the world of communication through different media, and instilling a certain discipline necessary for creating a newspaper,” he told us.
To conclude: “Refining language, learning to write a text precisely while maintaining the principle of narration with a spirit of synthesis, this is the range of skills we aim to highlight in this initiative, which I consider a kind of civic education.”
Returning to the competition, 300 students representing 7 middle schools and 6 high schools from the Alpes-Maritimes and Var participated in this edition.
And, for a little story, the winners were:
The Jules Romains Middle School in Nice for the online newspaper “Moulins-News”
The Lycette Darsonval Primary School in Nice for the paper newspaper “Le Caneton Déchaîné”
The Les Bréguières Middle School in Cagnes-sur-Mer for the paper newspaper “Made un Bréguières”
The Saint-Exupéry High School in Saint-Raphaël for the paper newspaper “Bruits de Couloir”
