By Michelle D’Alessandro
Huntington High School
Mehek Ahmed knows she wants to make a difference in the world and that journalism is a way to do it. Being in a school with kids from many mixed backgrounds generated a deep appreciation for those with differing views and cultures.
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Maya Brown: Making writing a reality
By Ilona Kaydanov
Hauppauge High School
Maya Brown has always had a gift for writing and the ability to express herself and with the support of her family, has started following her aspirations.
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Colin Capece: Sports fuel love of writing
By Brianne Ledda
Miller Place High School
Colin Capece, a rising junior at Chaminade High School, loves sports and spends much of his time playing hem on the field and writing about them in the newspaper office.
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Jonathon Cerini: Gratitude for journalism debut
By Emily Glennon
East Islip High School
Jonathon Cerini has used writing to break out of his shell since he was a child. However, this week at the Robert Greene Summer Institute was his first chance to try his hand at journalism.
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Michelle D’Alessandro: Broad interests include journalism
By Mehek Ahmed
Centereach High School
A rising senior at Huntington High School, Michelle D’Alessandro,16, has had a technical upbringing, but a captivated interest in the literary part of her education.
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Alex Gelabert: A young start in writing
By Sascha Rosin
Mattituck High School
It all started in the first grade for Alex Gelabert when he won a young writers’ outstanding poetry award at age seven. He’s had pen to paper ever since.
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Emily Glennon: An unlikely love of journalism
By Jonathon Cerini
Salesian High School
Emily Glennon hated journalism when she first tried it. Now she not only loves it, but is editor in chief of her school paper.
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Hallie Harvey: Encouraged to keep writing
By Jamie Molnar
Southold Junior-Senior High School
For Newfield High School rising junior Hallie Harvey, writing is a way of life.
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James Hinshaw: A duty to inform spurs ambition
By Casey McShea
Bayside High School
Many children watch action TV shows and aspire to be a superhero like Captain America or Black Widow. James Hinshaw, however, watched TV as a child and discovered his lifelong aspiration to be a journalist.
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Ilona Kaydanov: A poet’s journey on journalist’s path
By Maya Brown
Freeport High School
A rising junior at Hauppauge High School, Ilona Kaydanov is a self-described bookworm with a passion for journalism and thrill for reading.
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Brianne Ledda: Writing to make a difference
By Colin Capece
Southold Junior-Senior High School
Intrigued by investigative journalism for science, Brianne Ledda’s aspirations for journalism have a global reach.
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Peter Lupfer: A voice to be remembered
By Alicia Renda
Division Avenue High School
Schools force you to learn how to write, but not everybody enjoys it. Peter Lupfer is the exception – and has been since first grade.
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Casey McShea: School paper fuels love of writing
By James Hinshaw
Island Trees High School
Casey McShea’s interest in journalism started when she discovered her school newspaper, The Baysider, in her freshman year.
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Jamie Molnar: An eye for stories
Hallie Harvey
Newfield High School
From a very young age, 17 year-old aspiring journalist Jamie Molnar has always had an affinity for writing.
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Niki Nassiri: Journalism bridges two worlds
Alexa Pendleton
Longwood High School
Niki Nassiri, a 16-year-old junior at Ward Melville High School, sees journalism as a way to examine the differences between where she was raised and where her roots are.
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Alexa Pendleton: A focus on photos
By Niki Nassiri
Ward Melville High School
With a love for films centered around journalism and a passion for Photography, movie magic is becoming a reality for Alexa Pendleton.
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Alicia Renda: Author of her destiny
By Peter Lupfer
Longwood High School
Alicia Renda has loved the English language since the first grade but over the years, the Levittown native’s passion has shifted from writing for fun to greater ambitions.
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Sascha Rosin: Have camera, will travel
By Alex Gelabert
Oyster Bay High School
A senior at Mattituck Junior/Senior High School with a record of academic excellence, Sascha Rosin is torn between seemingly incompatible career paths: marine biology and journalism.
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