SCSPA holds two conferences a year - one in the fall, usually the fourth Monday in September, and one in the spring, usually the fourth Monday in April.
Instructors include both local and nationally recognized advisers and professionals. Sessions range from basic to advanced to trends. Magazine and yearbook evaluation and individual awards are presented in the fall.
Newspaper and broadcast evaluation and individual awards, as well as the Journalist of the Year, the SCSPA scholarship, the Reid H. Montgomery Adviser of the Year and the Scroggins
Award are presented during the spring conference.