Place Name: First Place Contestant Name: University of Chicago Laboratory High School Entry Title: uhighmidway.com Entry Credit: Jaya Alenghat, Chloë Alexander, Clare McRoberts, Mia Lipson Judge Comment: Thoughtful layout and design. Header ticks all the boxes. Organized navigation with drop down and nice visual elements across the board. Versatile multimedia elements. Nice interactive poll on homepage and the newsletter sign-up is great. Longform featured stories have either quotes, internal/external links, tagging, info boxes, and optimized images with credits. Responsive mobile design. Desktop passed core web vitals & good page speed scores. I love the sticky footer. Amazing job U-High Midway!
Place Name: Second Place Contestant Name: Kaneland High School Entry Title: Kaneland Krier Website Entry Credit: Preslee Sutherland, Sophie Thill Judge Comment: Nice site header; logo, social icons, and search bar. Organized navigation. Homepage has a thoughtful layout, color choices, and theme elements. Very nice Multimedia section with a lot of variety! Good practice having a placeholder image for when you don't have an article photo. However, a featured article can be greatly enhanced by an image, even if it's a stock photo. Images add context and are great for SEO. Responsive mobile design. Well done, Kaneland!
