The Garden State Scholastic Press Association is a non-profit organization that provides resources for advisers to school publications, as well as to students.

Our main services are the Fall Press Day and Spring Advisers’ Conference, our Summer Newspaper Contest, and the NJ Journalist of the Year award, which includes Bernard Kilgore Scholarship. There is also the Bob Stevens Memorial Scholarship.

Advisers must be members of the GSSPA in order for their students to be eligible for any awards, or to attend the conferences. The membership fee is $25 per year, which is included in the $40 Fall Conference fee, or can be paid separately if you cannot attend the conference.

We are always looking for volunteers to help with planning of the conferences, running the contests, and presenting workshops at the conferences. If interested (or if you have any contacts in the press or broadcasting who might be interested) in giving workshops for us, or helping out in another way, please fill out our participation form and send it to us. Contact us, or watch our home page for notices about upcoming meetings. Meetings are usually held in the North or Central Jersey areas.

The GSSPA is also a resource for information about national scholarships and other services available through other organizations, whether they are regional, state, or national.

Elections for the Executive Board are held every year at the Spring Advisers’ Conference.

For more information, please contact the GSSPA.