Student News for Horizon Honors Secondary School

The Horizon Sun

Student News for Horizon Honors Secondary School

The Horizon Sun

Student News for Horizon Honors Secondary School

The Horizon Sun

2022-2023 Staff

Carsten Oyer
Editor-in-Chief

Carsten Oyer

Carsten Oyer is a junior at Horizon Honors. This is his fourth year of attending Horizon Honors and in Journalism, his third as an editor, and his second as Editor-in-Chief of the Horizon Sun. Oyer is excited to work with this ye...

Theo McShane
Editor of Features and Extras

Theo McShane

Theo McShane is a freshman at Horizon Honors. This is their second year in Journalism and first as an editor. McShane joined Journalism because they've always enjoyed writing, and thought that taking a class to get better at it wou...

Kalyn McLeod
Editor of Campus Life and Sports

Kalyn McLeod

Kalyn McLeod is currently a sophomore at Horizon Honors. It is her third year in Journalism, and second year as an editor. Other than writing, McLeod’s passions include painting, drawing, and competitive swimming. McLeod ha...

Allister McLeod
Editor of Student Opinion

Allister McLeod

Allister McLeod is a senior at Horizon Honors and the Editor of Student Opinion for the Horizon Sun. He enjoys English and history classes but tends to spend most of his time in school on electives and extracurriculars. He is a m...

Rochelle Georges
Columnist

Rochelle Georges

Rochelle Georges is in seventh grade and is twelve years old. Georges is a columnist for the Horizon Sun in Journalism. She likes to play video games and watches a ton of YouTube; some of her favorite YouTubers are SSSniperWolf and ...

Brody Cheroke
Columnist

Brody Cheroke

Brody Cheroke is a seventh grader in his second year at Horizon Honors, and this is his first year as a columnist for the Horizon Sun. He was born and raised in Arizona. Cheroke likes to draw and make animations in his spare ti...

Sarah Kerr
Columnist

Sarah Kerr

Sarah Kerr is an eighth grader at Horizon Honors and a columnist for the Horizon Sun. Kerr is excited for Journalism so that she can improve her writing skills for the future. Kerr also travels for gymnastics, which is one of...

Amanda Mourelo
Columnist

Amanda Mourelo

Amanda is a freshman at Horizon Honors Secondary School. It is her first year at Horizon Honors. Amanda is very excited for the rest of the school year. She is Costa Rican and has lived in Arizona for her whole life. She enj...

Neev Katz-Tweedy
Columnist

Neev Katz-Tweedy

Neev Katz-Tweedy is in seventh grade and is attending her first year at Horizon Honors. She mostly enjoys math and her two electives, Journalism, where she enjoys writing about sports and campus life, and Eagles Band, where sh...

Quille Houston
Columnist

Quille Houston

Quille Houston is a 15-year-old freshman at Horizon Honors. This is their second year in Journalism and their third year at the school. Houston has always loved music and video games. Their favorite songs at the moment are “El t...

Jacob Snow
Columnist

Jacob Snow

Jacob Snow is an eighth grader at Horizon Honors and is a columnist for the Horizon Sun. His hobbies include computer programming, reading, playing video games, and playing musical instruments. This is his first year in Journ...

Canon Grant
Columnist

Canon Grant

Canon Grant is a junior at Horizon Honors and a columnist for the Horizon Sun. Grant has lived in the foothills of Ahwatukee for 10 years and is passionate about local issues and the people that make up the community. Grant has...

Claire Satiroff
Columnist

Claire Satiroff

Claire Satiroff is seventeen years old and is currently a junior who has been attending Horizon Honors since her freshman year. This is her first year as a columnist for the Horizon Sun. She is currently on the Speech and Deb...

Roya Ghahreman
Columnist

Roya Ghahreman

Roya Ghahreman is sixteen years old and has attended Horizon Honors for two years. She enjoys staying up way too late while writing and reading every genre possible, from horror to pretentious poetry. Ghahreman is also an avid movie...

Jameson Kowalski
Columnist

Jameson Kowalski

Jameson Kowalski is a seventh grader at Horizon Honors. He started at Horizon Honors in staff child care. This is his first year as a columnist for the Horizon Sun. Kowalski is excited to write articles about topics that he l...

Sripriya Srinivas
Columnist

Sripriya Srinivas

Sripriya Srinivas is a senior at Horizon Honors. Some of her hobbies are writing, reading, and art. She enjoys creative writing, specifically, and reading fiction books. She enjoys writing fantasy or contemporary stories and one...

Sierra Perlmutter
Columnist

Sierra Perlmutter

Sierra Perlmutter is a seventh grader, and this is her first year at Horizon Honors. Likewise, this is her first year as a columnist for the Horizon Sun. She enjoys English, especially writing and reading. Her interest in writin...

Maya Zappa
Columnist

Maya Zappa

Maya Zappa is a freshman at Horizon Honors. This is her first year as a columnist for the Horizon Sun. Zappa has been attending Horizon Honors for two years. She loves to play club softball and sleep when she’s not at schoo...

Melissa Sayadinejad
Columnist

Melissa Sayadinejad

Melissa Sayadinejad is 13 years old and in eighth grade. This is her second year as a columnist. She has been attending Horizon Honors for nine years now. She has many hobbies, such as swimming, painting, reading, and writing....