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The Student News Site of High School for Mathematics, Science and Engineering

The Echo

The Student News Site of High School for Mathematics, Science and Engineering

The Echo

The Student News Site of High School for Mathematics, Science and Engineering

The Echo

2022-2023 Staff

Zoe Otto

Zoe Otto

Zoe is a senior at HSMSE and serves as Editor-in-Chief of The Echo. Beyond the C5 newsroom, you can find Zoe getting her fifth (sixth?) coffee of the day at Cafe One, rewatching Curb Your Enthusiasm episodes (and perfecting he...

Orlena Fella

Orlena Fella

Orlena still remembers the immense sigh of relief when people actually showed up for MSE's first student newspaper meet. The Echo has grown faster than Orlena could have imagined and although she'll miss its humble beginnings,...

Jayden Cedano

Jayden Cedano

Jayden joined The Echo right before its first issue was released in 2023. Since then he’s written, edited, and contributed art for articles, as well as managing The Echo’s website theechohsmse.com. Jayden is concerned mostly...

Astrid Clayton

Astrid Clayton

Astrid joined The Echo last year as a founding member, because they like editing articles and writing about their interests. Astrid has written several articles about movies, but admits that they don't watch movies that often...

Emily Dow

Emily Dow

Emily is a founding member of The Echo, excluding the first ever newspaper club meeting which she did not attend. She enjoys ranting for hours about topics you may have heard of but definitely have no interest in and she revels...

Eli Gologanova

Eli Gologanova

Eli joined the Echo at the start of the 2nd issue. She loves grammatical editing and occasionally contributes digital drawings to the newspaper. Her favourite writing hot take is that British spelling is often, but not always,...

Kent He

Kent He

Kent has been in The Echo since its start in 2022. He is the section head for perspectives writing, and tries to write things about the school from the students' point of view. He hopes that his writing brings more connectivity...

Md Islam

Md Islam

Md has been at The Echo since its humble beginning in 2022. He kicked off the very first issue by interviewing Mr. Swenson and has done several interviews and spotlights since. Although he's very serious about giving a voice to...

Lear Kelmendi

Lear Kelmendi

Lear has been a satirical writer for the Echo since early 2023. On the day of the first issue's release, he got inspired by the creativity and the sheer energy of the newspaper, so he decided to join, wanting to contribute to...

Ronald Szeto

Ronald Szeto

Ronald has been at The Echo since its start in 2022. Ronald often writes ridiculous articles, from ants to hamsters to Roombas. He likes writing these articles to mask messages to the school community in a more humorous voice....

Asher Moskowitz

Asher Moskowitz

Asher has been at The Echo since spring 2023. He is The Echo's first and current sports columnist covering athletics every issue. In addition to being a sports fan, he is passionate about music and gaming.

Willow Mintz

Willow Mintz

Willow has been a member of the Echo since its third edition in early 2023. She is a sophomore who enjoys baking and Taylor Swift and both of these hobbies are displayed in her writing. Her favorite food is sushi and her favorite...

Adeola Oke

Adeola Oke

Adeola is a senior at HSMSE and has been at The Echo since Issue 2. She enjoys collaborating with others and talking about the issues once they are out. Adeola has written about animals and recently started the Ask it Forward...

Ella-Devi Weerackody

Ella-Devi Weerackody

Ella Devi has been on the Echo team since its founding in 2022. She writes frequently about everything culture-related as she believes that studying our culture is vital to cultivating a healthy society. Her favorite activity...

Feng Yi Yang

Feng Yi Yang

Feng Yi has been at The Echo since founding of the club. He greatly appreciates the faculty at HSMSE and believes that the faculty should give their history on who they are. He has already written about school issues, interviews...

Arianna Bassini

Arianna Bassini

Arianna Bassini is a founding member of The Echo and an Editor and Chief of the club. She has also been leading the lobbying effort to get newspaper-wide fedoras for the last two and a half years. In her spare time, she is either...

Phoebe Fried

Phoebe Fried

Phoebe is a founding member of The Echo. She dabbled in editing and writing articles, but ultimately found her calling in designing and formatting the layout of the physical newspaper. As the Head Designer, her dedication to her...

Farah Dackour

Farah Dackour

Farah's currently a senior at HSMSE and has been on The Echo staff since it's creation. Outside of creating art for The Echo, Farah enjoys playing basketball (and using her height to her advantage), working in her Mount Sinai...