2017-2018 Staff
Ruth Martin
Reporter
Ruth is an all around good person. She has been swimming since she was eight and loves drawing. She likes photography and writes a lot. She enjoys travelling and trying food from different cultures. Her favorite foods are pizza...
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Sharanya Karanam
Reporter
Sharanya Karanam is a person of few words yet of many talents who aspires to go to Berkeley University and become a marine biologist. her love of science quenches her constant need for an understanding and her talent in art gives...
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Opinionist Cast
Video Staff Group
The staff and cast of The Opinionist, Canyon Echoes first video webseries.
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Alexia Clamou
Reporter
Alexia was born in Mexico City and moved to Austin a year ago on September, 4 2016. She loves to read and write, but doesn't like Language Arts. Her favorite class is Math and she is really good at it. She is in girls athletics...
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Vishnu Sreenivasan
Reporter
Vishnu is a curious intellectual who likes people and loves to learn about their interests. He is known by his friends and family for his vast and extensive knowledge about what's going on the world and his amusing interpret...
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Erith Won
Reporter
Erith is an avid, enthusiastic eighth grader who lives on K-pop and Manga and loves to watch hilariously nonsensical movies. She spends her days listening to BTS and VIXX nonstop and idealizes every member of the musical groups. W...
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Amber Xiao
Reporter
Amber might seem cold and strange at first, but when you get to know her properly, she warms up immediately. Amber was born in Atlanta, Georgia, but moved to California at age 1. She then moved to Austin 5 years later. Amber loves...
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Margaux Deveze
Reporter
Margaux is a nice person who loves animals. She moved from France in 2015 to United States. She has spent her 6th and half of 7th grade in the ESL classes and is very familiar with the teachers. She already has made some short...
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Ariel Sun
Reporter
Ariel was born in Florida, but moved to Austin at age two. She loves to read, especially the Land of Stories series. Speaking of books, Ariel enjoys Language Arts, though she admits it’s her worst subject. It won’t be st...
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Oliver Barnfield
reporter
Oliver is a 7th grade “impresario” of the arts, as he describes himself. He enjoys composing and listening to all genres of music, an obsession that also extends to trivial knowledge. He prides himself in knowing all sorts of...
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Keana Saberi
Reporter
Keana is a funny and sweet 8th grader. She absolutely adores Hamilton and has memorized every lines. She loves sushi and ramen soup and devours British and Scottish culture. Her favorite place to travel to is Europe and she lov...
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Lucy Wassmuth
Reporter
Lucy is an outgoing, funny, and caring seventh grader. She is a Broadway addict and professional procrastinator. When she grows up she wants to be an actress or do something with animals. Her favorite foods are queso, chocolate...
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Jack Purcell
Reporter
Jack Purcell likes sketching, and ceramics. He was in Mr. Ramirez’s art class for 6th and 7th grade and is now in Mrs. Loera’s class for 8th grade. When he grows up he would like to become an animator. He would also like to...
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Rachel Iyer
Reporter
Rachel is a fun, humble and a kind person. She loves drinking milk and eating smoothies for dinner. Rachel has 2 dogs but they both don't like her. Rachel has an older brother and 2 younger half brothers. They don't like her e...
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Austin Nguyen
Reporter
Austin is an 8th grader that is in Newsmedia. He is a go-getter and tries to do his best in school. His dream vacation is to be in a tropical island, but he would like to live somewhere this snow. He enjoys being in the outdoors...
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Nathan Pooler
Reporter
Nathan Pooler is an 8th grader who is very enthusiastic about being a Meteorologist.He has met David Yeomans, a Meteorologist at KXAN. He wants to go to OU to get a master’s Degree in Meteorology. He has a very kind and help...
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Keshav Laxminarasimhan
Reporter
Keshav Laxminarasimhan is an 8th grader who wants to be an Olympic swimmer when he grows up. He is currently 13 years old and he wants to go to the Junior Olympics before 16 years of age. Today his hobbies are karate as he is...
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Zack Catuogno
Reporter
Zack is an 8th grader that appreciates and enjoys almost nothing, with the exception of art, music, and reptiles.
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Andrew Bailey
Reporter
Andrew lives and breathes sports. When not playing football for Canyon Vista Middle School or soccer with his soccer team, you can find him at work refereeing soccer games, running at the track, working out at home, or playing...
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