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Silver Chips OnlineSilver Chips Online is one of the student newspapers of Montgomery Blair High School. An exclusively online publication, it covers any news of interest to the Blair community, and has won several awards on the state and national levels. History Silver Chips Online was founded by Dan Zytnick in the 1998-1999 school year mostly as an online list of Silver Chips print edition stories. "Online only" stories and web-updates were few and far between, though not unheard of. Since that first year, Silver Chips Online has greatly expanded its staff and mission. In the 2000-2001 school year, under Editor-in-Chief Daina Klimanis, Online had six staff members and began writing more of its own stories instead of simply posting the latest print edition. In the 2001-2002 school year, under Editors-in-Chief Joe Howley and Robert Day, Silver Chips Online got a major redesign and upgrade and began to produce many more "Online Only" stories. In 2002-2003, Silver Chips Online, headed by Editors-in-Chief Kevin Chang and Jeanne Yang, added a large number of new reporters and the content of the site became dominated by "Online Only" stories. Branden Buehler and KC Constanzo led Silver Chips Online in the 2003-2004 school year and launched a new site design in addition to attending the National Scholastic Press Association Conference in San Diego, California with Managing Editors Cori Cohen and Robin Hernandez. Under their leadership, Silver Chips Online was given the Pacemaker award, an honor that identifies it as one of the three best online high school newspapers in the nation. In the next school year, Silver Chips Online doubled in size to having a staff of around 45 writers and editors, including four Editors-in-Chief, Vivek Chellappa, Allison Elvove, Ely Portillo and Katherine Zhang and a Technical Editor, Jeffrey Dunn. This year brought an expansion of site features, including the College section, the Foreign Desk section, the Ask Chips column and numerous site specials, such as Homecoming and Election 2004 coverage. Some of the current products of Silver Chips Online include coverage of major events as they happen, other important news, features about a wide variety of subjects, movie reviews, information about school sports and clubs. Print edition stories can also still be found on Online. In the future, Silver Chips Online will continue to expand and increase its ability to report on all Blair events and other information of interest to the Blair community.
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