Advisor: Shetye Cypher

Advisor Since: 1999

Words to Live by: Generate your own ideas or be slave to another’s.

Editors

Lauren Adkins - Editor In Chief

Grade: 12

Words to Live by: Always live life to its fullest.

Future Career Goals: Journalist, Airplane Pilot

Colby Adolph - Features

Grade: 12

Words to Live by: Live life with no regrets, everything happens for a reason.

Future Career Goals: Pharmacist, Model, Journalist

Tori Blanchard - News

Grade: 11

Words to Live by: Maybe there’s more to life than just being really, really good-looking.

Future Career Goals: Acrobat with Cirque du soleil, Editor for a magazine

Max Gardner - Opinions

Grade: 11

Words to Live by: Not into labels.

Future Career Goals: Published Author, Journalist, Photojournalist, Graphic/Web Designer

Reporters

Erica Johnson

Grade: 12

Words to Live by: SMILE!!

Future Career Goals: Professional Boxer

Marina Lopez

Grade: 11

Words to Live by: Dance as though no one is watching you. Love as though you have never been hurt before. Sing as though no one can hear you. Live as though heaven is on earth.

Future Career Goals: Something that involves helping kids

James Yang

Grade: 10

Words to Live by: It’s the decisions you make, when you have no time to make them, that define who you are.

Future Career Goals: Doctor

Photographers

Alisha Brown

Grade: 12

Words to Live by: Never take the people in your life for granted because you never know when you will need them the most.

Future Career Goals: Graduate high school, attend HCC for two years and transfer to A&M

Morgan Goodman

Grade: 12

Words to Live by: Do what you want.

Future Career Goals: Make money

Arielle Gutierrez

Grade: 12

Words to Live by: Just take life with a smile.

Future Career Goal: Wildlife biologist, lawyer/ attorney, or restaurant owner/chef

Halli Sanchez

Grade: 12

Words to Live by: They love to tell you stay inside the lines, but somethings better on the other side.

Future Career Goals: 11th or 12th grade English teacher at Mayde Creek

Rachel Toth

Grade: 10

Words to Live by: Life isn’t measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away!

Future Career Goals: Nurse

Samantha Woodward

Grade: 12

Words to Live by: Never take life for granted, it could be gone in an instance.

Future Career Goals: Major in photography in college, Begin own photography business

Artist

Rachel Reed

Grade: 11

Words to Live by: Trust God in everything, love with your whole heart, never give up on what you believe, make life goals and strive everyday to meet them.

Future Career Goals: Air Force Pilot, Astronaut for NASA