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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

2024-2025 Staff

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...

Ocean Hiller

Ocean Hiller

Ocean is a sophomore who has written and edited for the Echo since Fall 2023. In addition to covering the topics of school and culture, he likes to write poetry. In his free time, he enjoys listening to Boygenius, spending time...

Siona Lewis-Coffey

Siona Lewis-Coffey

Siona is a junior who does writing, editing and layout for the Echo. She loves appreciating little moments, running track, and crafting and hopes to travel around the country in a van someday. Her favorite book is Strange the...

Oliver Grover

Oliver Grover

Oliver is a sophomore who has been an editor at the Echo since the beginning of the 2023-24 school year. He has also assisted in writing a couple of articles that will soon be published! Outside of school, he's interested in marine...

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,...

Willow Mintz

Willow Mintz

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

Gareth Reis

Gareth Reis

Gareth has been a member of the Echo staff since September 2023. It is probably a fairly well-known fact about him, but Gareth is a big train nerd. As for something that may not be such common knowledge, he is probably complaining...

Annalie Merkel

Annalie Merkel

Annalie spends her time playing sports and watching “One Tree Hill.” If she isn't hiding in her room or at practice, you can find her out with friends. She could probably also be found at her favorite dumpling restaurant with...

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...

Maya Grauer

Maya Grauer

Maya joined The Echo this year, for the beginning of her sophomore year. She loves writing in the arts and culture section of the newspaper, sharing her love for books and music with people, and cannot wait to continue being a...

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...

Audrey Young

Audrey Young

Audrey joined The Echo as a sophomore because she finds raising awareness about different topics of the school very important. She also loves being able to interact with so many different people, which is why she loves incorporating...

Jason Huang

Jason Huang

Jason has been at The Echo ever since it became an elective in 2023. He likes hanging out with his pals and running around the city. He tries to write about funny topics, but sometimes they flop. No worries though because he just...

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...

Julian Nguyen

Julian Nguyen

Julian has been an active member of the Echo since the start of the 2023-2024 season. He joined The Echo as he feels that the school newspaper is an amazing way to channel one of his core values, creativity. An avid film nerd...

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...