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Carrie Hoover, J-School senior and State News design editor, had a nerve wracking but totally satisfying week. She won top honors at the Society of News Design (SND) Intern contest.

The grueling process started when she applied last May. She was one of ten semifinalists who were put through their paces at the SND national conference in Orlando last week including being wakened at 4 a.m. with the breaking (phony) news that Osama bin Laden had been captured. She had to design a front page for the story.

Top design editors from the Orlando Sentinel, The Arizona Republic and the San Jose Mercury News winnowed the competitors down to five. SND attendees made the next cut voting Carrie into the top three. After a Quiz Bowl complete with buzzers where Carrie smoked the other two finalists, she was named the best of the best of student designers. Congrats, Carrie!!

She got to pick her internship for next summer. Her choice: the San Jose Mercury News. She completed an internship this past summer at The Virginian Pilot.

Along with Carrie, four other MSU students, all members of the Edmund C. Arnold chapter of SND on campus attended the annual conference along with three faculty: Darcy Greene, Cheryl Pell and Karl Gude. The four other students were Allisence Chang, Travis Ricks, Nick Mrozowski and Jessica Nowak.

You can see Carrie's video at http://snd.org/theintern/Hoover.html