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The student-run newspaper of McKinley High School

The Pinion

The student-run newspaper of McKinley High School

The Pinion

The student-run newspaper of McKinley High School

The Pinion

Illustration by Dominic Niyo.

2025 NSPA Writer of the Year Portfolio

Dominic Niyo, editor May 28, 2025

PERSONAL STATEMENT​  Some people say journalists are the loudest voices in the room — but I’ve often found myself more comfortable behind the scenes, listening, observing, and letting others take...

Some of the awards that The Pinion staff won at the event.

The Pinion Staff Wins Awards at HHSJA Luncheon

On April 17, The Pinion staff went to UH Manoa to attend the Hawaii High School Student Journalism Awards Luncheon from ~12-1 PM where they won 10 awards in different categories.  The Hawaii High School...

Healing takes time and patience. Kintsugi is a Japanese art of repairing broken things with gold, embracing the cracks and accepting them as a part of life. No matter how much I
hide my scars it will always be there, and that’s okay.
2025 Hawaii High School Journalism Awards - Illustration - First Place.

Artist of the Year

Cheska Orias, Editor-in-Chief May 27, 2025

Pinion Staff as Book Genres

Pinion Staff as Book Genres

Cheska Orias, Editor-in-Chief May 12, 2025

Newswriting Promo Video

Newswriting Promo Video

April 30, 2025

 

2025 Hawaii High School Journalism Awards - Poster Category - First Place

2025 Hawaiʻi High School Journalism Awards

April 20, 2025

Fifteen Hawaii high school journalism staff submitted work to the 2025 Hawaii High School Journalism Awards. MCKINLEY AWARDS WRITING - State Second Place in Division  - (first among public schools) Second...

Comic Strip - Sad Bear Learns How to Be Media Literate

Comic Strip – Sad Bear Learns How to Be Media Literate

March 15, 2024

Junior Language Arts students spent Quarter 3 learning about media literacy and creating a group project to display their learning.

Disclaimer: This is all for fun as each reporter choose what they are.

Pinion Staff As High School Sterotypes

Cheska Orias, Editor-in-Chief February 9, 2023

Quill and Scroll Inductees

Quill and Scroll Inductees

November 1, 2022

Quill and Scroll is an international honorary society for high school journalists. Nominees for McKinley High School's Quill and Scroll Chapter must have the equivalent of a B grade average, or be...

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