District Honored with Two Communication Awards from NY School PR Association
District Honored with Two Communication Awards from NY School PR Association
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The New York School Public Relations Association honored Amherst Central School District’s public relations specialist Lori Sosenko with two second-place awards in its 2025 Annual Communications Competition.
An award of honor was earned In the website category, for the new District website template that went live in August 2024. An award of honor in the photography category was given for a photo taken at the June 2024 Parade of Graduates at Smallwood Drive Elementary School.
This year's contest recognizes outstanding achievement in educational communications. Entries are adjudicated by experts in the field throughout the nation. Awards are given according to the type of communication vehicle and the type and size of the district/organization. Each entry is judged on the overall excellence of the entry as well as its quality compared to other entries in the category. Possible honors include Awards of Excellence, the highest level of recognition; Awards of Honor, the second place level of recognition; and Awards of Merit, the third place level of recognition.
Past awards have included:
- 2023 award of honor for video, "We Are Amherst".
- 2022 award of excellence for the website news article, "From Stomach Acid to Self-Esteem, Amherst CSD Elementary Health Curriculum Targets Mental, Emotional, Physical Wellness" which highlighted the new elementary health curriculum at Smallwood Drive and Windermere Boulevard.
- 2022 award of honor for the web news, "How a Classroom Coffee Shop “Perked Up” Students’ Interest in Running a Business and Learning Social Skills" which featured Amherst Middle School's cafe.
- 2021 award of excellence for the article, “Expanding a Virtual Academy Teacher's View; Piloting a Tech Unit that Benefits Students and Teachers” written during the 2020-2021 school year highlighting the TIGER CMS tech units at Windermere Boulevard Elementary School.
- 2019 award of honor for the article, "Coding Ozobots to Teach Velocity: MS Science Teachers Team Up with Ideas."