It also placed first at both the spring 2012 JEA/NSPA Convention in Seattle and the spring 2014 JEA/NSPA Convention in San Diego. At the fall 2017 spring JEA/NSPA Convention in Dallas it placed 8th in the nation. At the fall 2018 JEA/NSPA Convention in Chicago it placed 7th in the nation. It won the NSPA Pacemaker award in 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2010. The "Falconer" receives no school funding, and instead relies on money the staff members find from advertisers. "First Flight" is the school literary magazine. Its 2005–06 edition placed first in the 2006 JEA/NSPA Fall National High School Journalism Convention in Chicago, Illinois and the 2006–07 edition won first place Best in Show at the 2007 JEA/NSPA Fall National High School Journalism Convention in Nashville, Tennessee. "First Flight" again won first place Best in Show at the 2010 JEA/NSPA Fall National High School Journalism Convention in Kansas City, Missouri. At the spring 2018 JEA/NSPA Convention in San Francisco it placed 4th in the nation. "FreeFlight" is the school yearbook. Freeflight 2006–07 yearbook with the theme of IMPACT placed 4th at the JEA/NSPA National Convention in the Spring of 2008 in Anaheim, CA and Freeflight 2007–08 yearbook with the theme of LAYERS placed 3rd at the JEA/NSPA National Convention in the Spring of 2009 in Phoenix, AZ. The Torrey Pines black box theater program ("TP Players") has received awards for best play in the region from the California Educational Theater Association for "Metamorphosis" in 2003 and "Inherit the Wind" in 2005. "TP Players" performed at the International Fringe Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland in the summers of 2006 and 2009.