Here are the awards that were received during the 2020-21 academic year.

• Journalism Education Association Journalist of the Year Finalist, Alex Steil
• National Scholastic Press Association Honor Roll, Alex Steil
• National Scholastic Press Association Honor Roll,  Mairin Torgerson
• National Scholastic Press Association Feature Story Finalist (national) Sophia Arndt
• National Scholastic Press Association Climate Change News Story Finalist (national) Kady Peltier

Minnesota High School Press Association

• Broadcast News Story: 2nd Place (Connor Quaderer)
• Broadcast News Story: 3rd Place (Abby Anderson, Cassidy Gilliam, & Katie Kangas
• Broadcast Feature Story: 1st Place (Austin Buck, Aiden Flock, & Erik Houle)
• Newspaper Story Editorial: 4th Place (Olivia Bystrom)
• Feature Story Writing: 3rd Place (Sophia Arndt)
• Sports Story Writing: 5th Place (Elizabeth Harter)

Journalism Education Association:

• All State Silver: Print Publication
• All State Silver: Online Publication

Best of SNO:

• Abby Anderson
• Sophia Arndt
• Mason Buck
• Olivia Bystrom
• Bella Godfrey
• Ella Hamilton
• Elaina Mankowski
• Connor Quaderer
• Emma Wagner
• Lubnag Xiong