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The Spartan Forum

The Student News Site of Skyline High School

The Spartan Forum

The Student News Site of Skyline High School

The Spartan Forum

2024-2025 Staff

Kate Yu
Co-Editor in Chief

Kate Yu

Kate is a Junior and is interested in participating in other types of writing that are not available in school. She likes to play cello and hang out with friends, as well as explore delicious new food places that she finds on...

Sneha Moudgalya
Co-Editor in Chief

Sneha Moudgalya

Sneha, a Junior, wanted to be part of the Forum to have a bigger role in shaping the stories shared with the school community. She believes the newspaper is a platform that highlights important issues and gives students a voice....

Derreck Xiao
Managing Editor

Derreck Xiao

Derreck is a Senior and hopes to create a better informed populace at Skyline. He hopes to become a historian or teacher. His favorite class is IB World Religions.

Emily Hughes
Editor: Arts & Entertainment

Emily Hughes

Emily, a Senior, joined the school newspaper as an opportunity to write analytical and informative works for fun. She likes to read, cross stitch, and listen to music and hopes to get a PhD in History and work as a college professor....

Manyada Alapaty
Editor: Arts & Entertainment

Manyada Alapaty

Manya is a Sophomore and enjoys learning and writing about new topics and art is a huge part of her life, so being involved in the school newspaper is the perfect space to voice her stories and thoughts in her own, unique style...

Irine Tyuyusheva
Editor: Arts & Entertainment

Irine Tyuyusheva

Irine, a Sophomore, wants to spread knowledge of events happening at Skyline or anywhere in the world, to build a community within our students. She likes to go on hikes, ice skate and bake. Irine's favorite class is intro to...

Suzana Tanisha
Editor: Arts & Entertainment

Suzana Tanisha

Editor: Features

Carissa Traffie

Carissa is a Junior and enjoys writing and wants to share with others what is happening in the Skyline community. She likes to go shopping with her friends and listen to music.         Carissa's favorite movie is Parent Tra...

Kosisochukwu (Kosi) Ume
Editor: Features

Kosisochukwu (Kosi) Ume

Kosi is a Junior and enjoys reading articles and discussing them with peers. She wants Skyline students, staff, and administrators to be able to do the same. She likes to read and bake. Her favorite classes are sociology and history....

Noah Nakhooda
Editor: Features

Noah Nakhooda

Noah, a Junior, wants to inform people about events in an interesting and informative way. He likes to read and go on walks with his dog, Eevee. Noah is interested in writing in the future but doesn't aspire to be a journalist....

Runxin Jiang
Editor: Features

Runxin Jiang

As a part of the school newspaper, Tony, a Junior, believes it presents him with a unique opportunity to raise awareness of contemporary issues and spread positivity to our community. Tony likes to read sci-fi books in his free...

Editor: Features

Tanvi Dalmia

Tanvi, a Junior, is very passionate about storytelling and sharing important events and ideas within our community. She believes that the school newspaper is a great platform to highlight student voices, spark discussions, and...

Tishya Sudhahar
Editor: Features

Tishya Sudhahar

Tishya is a Junior and loves reading and writing so she wants to express her passion for it through the school newspaper. During her free time she loves to dance and read books! Her favorite class in school is IB Biology. Tishya's...

Charlotte Pearse
Editor: News

Charlotte Pearse

Charlotte, a Junior, wants to be part of the school paper because she enjoys editing writing and loves to learn about what’s happening in our current news. She does competitive studio dance and enjoys reading with a cup of tea...

Haifa Haris
Editor: News

Haifa Haris

Haifa, a Junior, likes to know what's going on around her on both a local and global scale. She likes reading articles about topics that interest her and hope to also write about interesting things for the school newspaper. She...

Zara Ahmed
Editor: News

Zara Ahmed

Zara is a Sophomore and loves to write and dive deeper into popular topics. She likes to play badminton and watch movies.

Angela Won
Editor: Public Health

Angela Won

Angela, a Sophomore, wants to spread real and relevant information about public health to provide a resource for students as well as improve Skyline’s health. She likes to draw and play golf and flute in her free time.

Miah Li
Editor: Public Health

Miah Li

Miah is a Freshman and has a passion for public health information and sharing it with others. She enjoys reading and listening to music in her free time. Her favorite class is chemistry because she enjoys learning about science.

Editor: Science & Technology

Aditi Sivakumar

Aditi is a Junior and loves to read interesting articles and hopes to educate others about science and technology through the school newspaper. In her free time she likes to read, play badminton, go hiking, and watch tv. Her favorite...

Editor: Science & Technology

Bhargavi Poduri

Bhargavi, a Sophomore, wants to make people more interested in reading news articles regarding multiple topics. She wants to help create a space with engaging articles and pieces that inform her peers about what’s going on in...

Editor: Sports & Staff Photographer

Andrew Wang

Andrew is a Sophomore and enjoys taking pictures and writing, so he thought that the school newspaper would be a perfect combination of the two. In his free time, Andrew likes to play soccer and take photos. His favorite class...

Abi Barquist
Editor: Sports

Abi Barquist

Abi, a Senior, loves everything to do with sports and wants to help promote women’s sports. She plays basketball at Skyline and enjoys watching movies. Abi hopes to become a sports journalist for the WNBA and women’s college...

Damon Riddle
Editor: Sports

Damon Riddle

Damon, a Sophomore, joined the school newspaper because he wanted to he wanted to be a part of informing the school. He likes to backpack and be outside in his free time, just enjoying the outdoors. Damon's favorite class is History....

Harshitha Anbukumar
Editor: Sports

Harshitha Anbukumar

Harshitha is a Sophomore and wants to improve her writing skills, additionally she wants to work and learn from others. Harshitha barely has any free time while playing soccer and doing 8 classes, but when she does, she likes...

Ella Zhou
Club Secretary & Staff Writer

Ella Zhou

Ella, a Sophomore, loves learning and likes to write about the world around her. She likes to read books, especially historical fiction, memoirs, and nonfiction. In her free time, she enjoys playing badminton and hiking.

Emma Kong
Club Secretary & Staff Writer

Emma Kong

Emma is a Junior and loves addressing recent events and sharing these with others. She likes to run, go on road trips, and snowboard. Her favorite class is chemistry with Dr. Sharma. Fun fact: Emma has really good memory.

Kat Anderson
Forum Promotion/Social Media & Staff Writer

Kat Anderson

Aleise Robertson
Forum Promotion/Social Media & Staff Writer

Aleise Robertson

Aleise is a Senior and loves to write and learn about her community and all the activities in it and wants to continue to make connections and ask questions. In her free time, Aleise likes to play basketball and spend time with...

Claire Krueger
Advice Column

Claire Krueger

Claire is a Senior and is passionate about helping others and providing information to her community. She is excited to help the next generation of SHS students through her advice column! In her free time, Claire likes to spend...

Meghna Ramesh
Advice Column

Meghna Ramesh

Rachana Jog
Advice Column

Rachana Jog

Rachana, a Sophomore, likes to listen to music, draw/paint, spend time with friends, and watch mystery movies. Her favorite class is graphic design.

Manvitha Prasad Kathula
Class/Club Liaison & Staff Writer

Manvitha Prasad Kathula

Manvitha, a Junior, joined the school newspaper because she hopes to contribute to the school community by sharing student perspectives and thoughts. She loves to read books and sing Carnatic music during her free times. Her favorite...

Class/Club Liaison & Staff Writer

Krish Marwaha

Krish, a Senior, wanted to join the school newspaper because he is interested in the news, especially in areas such as politics, public policy, and economics. Incidentally, Krish enjoys watching the news in his free time. His...

Gavin Liu
Copy Editor & Staff Writer

Gavin Liu

Gavin is a Freshman and enjoys writing, and sees the school newspaper as an opportunity to contribute to the writing, journalism, newspaper, and Skyline community. Gavin likes to sleep, read, write, and play instruments. His favorite...

Copy Editor & Staff Writer

Hasith Atluri

Hasith is a Junior and wanted to join this club to have a fun time with friends while learning more about improving his writing skills. He likes to volunteer, play the guitar, watch the NFL and hang out with friends in his free...

Haowen Zhang
Staff Photographer & Staff Writer

Haowen Zhang

Haowen, a Junior, wants to help take pictures for The Forum. He likes to play video games and piano. His favorite class is math. Haowen can do 17 pull ups in a row with good form.

Albert Li
Staff Writer

Albert Li

Albert, a Junior, wants to write about topics that he finds interesting and to share his thoughts with others. He likes to play tennis, play piano, watch television, and read.     Albert is not planning on being a professional...

Ananya Mendiratta
Staff Writer

Ananya Mendiratta

Ananya, a Junior, has always had a passion for writing. She believes that it would help her refine her writing skills and have a platform where she can contribute to share the facts and news to the school community while also...

Staff Writer

Arnav Thota

Arnav is a Freshman and enjoys following the news, and wants to learn more about its innerworkings.  He likes to play sports and sleep.

Staff Writer

Ava Wolter

Ava is a Junior and is super passionate about Arts and Entertainment, and would love to share information about it to everyone to explore, and hopefully get involved! She loves to sing, dance and act at her studio in Snoqualmie....

Ava Robertson
Staff Writer

Ava Robertson

Ava, a Sophomore, is a competitive swimmer for Skyline and Issaquah Swim Team, which takes up a lot of her time outside of school. When she does have a rare moment of freedom from school work, swim, and her job, she can often...

Ayan Islam
Staff Writer

Ayan Islam

Ayan, a Freshman, likes to inform people on the current happenings of the world, especially things that are overlooked. He likes to play the guitar and hang out with friends.

Fareyl Daoed
Staff Writer

Fareyl Daoed

Fareyl, a Senior, wants to learn more about his local community and write about it so that others can learn as well. He likes to play the clarinet and alto clarinet and likes to take photographs. Fareyl is not interested in becoming...

Staff Writer

Varun Sivakumar

Varun is a Freshmen and wants to inform others about recent events. He likes to bike and play videogames. Varun wants to be a reporter for Formula 1, because it is his favorite sport and there is a lot to learn from it. His favorite...

Staff Writer

Varsha Ganesh

Varsha, a Junior, wants to build our school community further through the school newspaper. From the best restaurants in Sammamish and Issaquah, to fun facts about the area, Varsha can’t wait to enlighten you all with the latest...

Yuchen Xia
Staff Writer

Yuchen Xia

Yuchen, a Junior, likes to spread news. He likes to watch shows and sports. His favorite class is Chinese. Yuchen has played over 10 sports.

Staff Writer

Zhebin Zhang

Zhebin, a Junior, wants to tell more people about school sports. He likes to game with his friends and his favorite class is physics. He can also play 2 octaves on the Tuba.

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