Nine Vashon High School Riptide student journalists have two weeks to raise $2,500 and close a critical gap for their $10,000 trip to the National Scholastic Press Association’s High School Journalism Convention in Los Angeles.

The island community can help the students reach their goals to build journalistic skills; hone collaboration, creativity, communication and problem-solving; and come back as leaders of an integrated high school journalism program.

The group (Sasha Elenko, Lilly Hennessey, Alden Hinden-Stevenson, Anne Kehl, Madi McCann, Sierra Richter, Hunter Stanley and Julian White-Davis) has been fundraising since February and will hold a community fundraiser on Sunday, April 3, with a showing of the Oscar-winning movie “Spotlight” and talk by former Seattle Times reporter and islander Eric Pryne. The event, at the high school theater, will begin at 6:30 p.m. with an introduction by Pryne. Childcare will be provided; a Pam Ingalls painting will be raffled off, and a bake sale will take place at intermission.

Tickets for the movie and raffle are $10 each. All proceeds will go to the Riptide.