The Roundup staff won 29 awards Friday and Saturday during a journalism conference hosted by California State University Fullerton.
The Journalism Association of Community Colleges (JACC) event, conducted once a semester, was attended by colleges across the southland and included mail-in and on the spot contests.
Professional journalists were also on hand to host workshops instructing students in the finer points of working as a professional journalist during the two day event.
Bryan Melara received honorable mention for mail-in profile feature story
UD received honorable mention for mail-in sports feature photo.
Maria Salvador won third place for mail-in editorial cartoon, fourth place in magazine illustration, second place for on-the-spot editorial cartoon and second place for mail-in photo story/essay.
Joe Kukuczka won first place for mail-in sports action photo, first place for mail-in sports feature photo
Melody Soto won first place for mail-in feature story.
Mark Gillman received honorable mention for mail-in inside broadsheet design.
Tessa Miller received honorable mention for on-the-spot feature photo.
Kevin Reynolds received honorable mention for on-the-spot opinion.
Arash Rod news received honorable mention for on-the-spot news photo.
Jose Romero won second place for photo story/essay and second place for mail-in photo story/essay.
The Roundup news staff received honorable mention for mail-in front page layout broadsheet design as well as general excellence for their online edition.