Announcements for the week of March 11

Produced by Period 7

Hailey Pena, Katherine Marroquin, Osvaldo “Ozzy” Hernandez, Kayce Recinos, Jamarieah Wallace, Henry Hernandez, Imani Canada, Mateo Juarez, Emanuel Rubin, Marc Mancias, Ra, Bryan Diaz, Gabriel Ortuno Castilla, Amber Lerma-Dominguez, Xariene Valtierra, Alexandra Gutierrez, Amari Robinson, Fernando Paniagua and Kamar Sampson

March 11, 2025

Script writer – Osvaldo Hernandez (Eng) and Kayce Recibnos (Spanish)

Director/Sound – Jamarieah Wallace (Eng); Henry Hernandez (Spanish)

On Air Talent – Imani Canada (Eng); Mateo Juarez (Spanish)

Camera – Emanual Rubin (Eng); Marc Mancias (Spanish)

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Grips/Lights – Ra’Von Strong (Eng) ; Bryan Diaz (Span)

Behind-the-Scenes Photographer – Gabriel Ortuño & Amber Lerma (Eng); Xariene Valtierra (Span)

PA/Teleprompter – Alexandra Gutierrez (Eng); Amari Robinson (Span)

Video Editor – Fernando Paniagua (Eng & Span)

Google Slides – Katherine Marroquin

Curates Graphics –

Equipment Manager – Kamar Sampson

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Your donation will support the student journalists at Augustus F. Hawkins High School. Your generous contribution will allow us to print the newspaper and mental health magazine, purchase equipment and cover our annual website hosting costs.

Su donación apoyará a los estudiantes periodistas de la Escuela Secundaria Augustus F. Hawkins. Su generosa contribución nos permitirá imprimir el periódico y la revista de salud mental, comprar equipos y cubrir nuestros costos anuales de alojamiento de sitios web.

About the Contributors

Hailey Pena, web editor

Hailey was born on April 3,2008. She is currently a junior at Hawkins. She is class of 2026. This is her first year taking journalism. After graduating high school, she wants to study the career of nursing. She loves doing her makeup that’s why she would also like to take a course to be a MUA ( Make-Up Artist). Hailey likes going out with her friends and enjoys shopping. In the future, she would like to travel a lot more. Hailey loves taking pictures because she can look back at the memories and cherish them forever.

Osvaldo “Ozzy” Hernandez, Photographer

I am going to be graduating in with the class of 2025. I am one of the scriptwriters for Hawkins High school. I am also a photographer for Journalism room 224. In my free time or part time I am a barber, and a student athlete participating in football, basketball, and volleyball. I am eager to be a photoghrapher due to thos photos either making people or things look good with the most detail possible. Similar to photography barbering is also a passion I have due to it also making a person look as good as possible and it amazed me how much of a difference I can make on someone’s life as a confidence booster.

Kayce Recinos, Reporter

A real rockstar

Jamarieah Wallace, Photographer

Jamarieah Wallace (he, him) currently attends Augustus F. Hawkins high school in Los, Angeles (CA) as an 11th grader (Class of 2026). He is a student athlete who has played two years of football and two years of track and field. Though he enjoys track, he really doesn’t want to, but it’s part of the football training program. Besides sports, Jamarieah also enjoys hanging out with friends. And he is not exactly sure which college he’ll attend to attend, but he would like to attain a degree with an emphasis in business.

Henry Hernandez

Henry Hernandez (he/they) is a Hawkins High School student entering their senior year. He is talented when it comes to math subjects, quick thinking, and maintaining calm at school. He has gone through his 4 years of highschool maintaining straight A’s & B’s and will keep maintaining this record until he is out of college. He loves to workout in his free time, at the moment he is able to bench 115 which is alright but that is a lot of progress from last week from 100 to 115. He is going to graduate during this year. He plans on going to USC and maintaining straight A’s during his college years so he can get a degree for engineering.

Imani Canada, reporter

Imani Canada is a 16-year-old junior who will graduate in 2026 from Augustus F. Hawkins. She enjoys reading, taking pictures, eating, and painting. She tends to enjoy being at school and playing sports such as flag football and softball. She also enjoys spending time with her friends in and out of school. One thing she dislikes about school, though, is taking tests as she tends to get distracted and panic, but then she ends up getting the grade she wanted. She hopes she can overcome her fear of taking tests to enjoy school more.

Mateo Juarez, reporter

Mateo Juarez, a junior (class of 2026) at Augustus F. Hawkins High School, is known for his adaptability in navigating situations that may feel uncomfortable to others. Passionate about personal growth, he consistently works on enhancing his communication skills. A nature enthusiast, Mateo enjoys spending time outdoors, finding inspiration and calm in natural settings. Each semester, he makes a effort to connect with new people, strengthening the sense of community within his school.

Emanuel Rubin, Photographer

Emanuel Rubin (he/him) class of 2025 is a person who is dedicated to good academics in school. He is described as a laid back person with an open mind to new ideas. He isn’t really into books, but when it comes to retaining information he’s more into podcasts. His interests vary from chess (which some people think is boring, but he likes that it makes the other person think) to watching and playing basketball. The music artists who Emanuel mostly listens to are Drake and Schoolboy Q. His plans after high school are to attend college and become an MRI Technologist.

Bryan Diaz, Photographer

Bryan (Class of 2026), uses his love of learning and his ability to adapt to excel in his studies. His future goal is to be a Law Student. Bryan’s mission is to give a voice to those in need in the legal world. Apart from academics, Bryan enjoys listening to music, nature, and sleep.

Gabriel Ortuno Castilla, photographer

Gabriel Ortuno Castilla is part of Class 2025 at Augustus Hawkins High School. He’s a part of Leadership, Yearbook, Urban Health Fellow-Ship (UHF), and Journalism. He’s passionate about listening to music and photography. After High school he hopes to attend UC Santa Cruz and study Film & Digital media. He enjoys hanging out with his friends and exploring Los Angeles in his free time. He is always open to helping others and tends to have a positive uplifting spirit.

Amber Lerma-Dominguez, photographer/podcast

Amber Lerma-Dominguez, who is in her junior year, enjoys playing video games, reading, and sleeping. She also enjoys long walks when within her sentimental moments, so she walks it off. There are times when she’d like to get out of the house to explore and see what’s more to see, other than what’s around her in her day to day life, one day she’d be able to experience what more to come.

Xariene Valtierra, Photographer

Xariene Valtierra is a student athlete who is in her junior year at Augustus F. Hawkins High School. Xariene spends her free time playing volleyball,baking, and doing schoolwork. She aspires to go to her dream schools; Upenn,UCBerkely,UCLA, or USC to persue a career in chemical engineering. Shes very passionate about the work that she does and strives to do everything she puts her mind to. She knows it wont be easy,but her goal in life is to become an engineer and enviornmental activist to help solve the pollution problem and encourage others to take care of our earth.

Alexandra Gutierrez, Reporter, Director,Photographer, Copy Editor, Newspaper editor, & Equipment Manager

Alexandra Gutierrez is a high school senior (class of 2025) at Augustus F. Hawkins High School in Los Angeles. She is currently doing well in all her academic classes. She is part of the journalism team working as a newspaper editor and photographer. Alexandra has her goal set on attending college after high school. After college, she wants to do either business marketing or computer science.

Amari Robinson

This man’s name is Amari Robinson and he attends Augustus F. Hawkins High School. Facts about him are that he is 16 years old and was born in California. He’s really into sports like basketball and soccer. He plays for a soccer team with his friends. He has 4 siblings, 3 brothers and 1 sister. His dreams/goals are to get into a pro level soccer club or be a content creator. He mostly spends his time playing games or sports with his friends. But, mostly just sleep all day. He is also thinking of going to college for Trade Vocations. He listens to different kinds of music like Rap and R&b but enjoys expanding his music tastes.The day he’s writing this is 3rd day back to school 8/14/2024.

Fernando Paniagua, Video Editor

Fernando Paniagua attends Augustus F. Hawkins High School in Los, Angeles (CA) as an 11th grader (Class of 2026). He is a student-athlete who has played two years of football and two years of track and field. He enjoys track, but it’s part of the football training program. Besides sports, Fernando also loves playing video games with friends. He is not exactly sure which college he’ll attend, but he would like to attain a degree in kinesiology.