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staff of 2020!

Kaleb Wallace

Copy Editor​
       Kaleb A. Wallace holds the position of Copy Editor. He has some experience in reporting and writing due to taking classes that relate to those subjects. He also has a few accounts with social media including facebook, snapchat, and instagram.
        Kaleb attends Shiprock High School and Bond Wilson Technical Center. He has taken several courses that would give him an edge in his New Media class such as Journalism, English 1-4 (honors too), and Yearbook (he was a Supervisor).
        Though Kaleb has done all of these things, he is both an introvert and an extrovert. Despise that, after high school, Kaleb hopes to join the military and after that go to college to become an electrical engineer.

TRusay Roger 

Copy Editor
       Trusay Roger holds the positions of copy editor. His experience with English and social media is great, but when it come to reporting not so great. He currently goes to school at Shiprock High School and Bond Wilson Technical Center. He was enrolled in Eva B. Stokley for elementary, and for middle school he went to Tse Bit Ai Middle School. His relevant classes are English II, computer science, and robotics. Trusay is in 10th grade and currently taking dual credit classes and AP classes. He likes pizza and loves playing games on console. He likes playing sports such as basketball, baseball, and football and plays competitively.
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Rafeal Grey

Copy Editor
        ​Rafeal Grey has little media experience, but he does have a facebook account and snapchat, although he rarely posts. He considers himself a good writer, and writes poems in his spare time. He did an interview in 9th grade for a computer design class where he created a web site for a restaurant. In 8th grade, he interviewed an ex-marine for a project.
        Rafeal attended high school at Lakewood, Colorado for his freshman and sophomore year. He then transferred the following year to Shiprock High School, which he still attends, and will graduate from in May 2020. Some relevant classes he has taken are mainly English courses.
            Some things you should know about Rafeal is that he is friendly and quiet. He loves the sport basketball and has been playing ever since he was six. He listens to music a lot, the main genre that he listens to is country and some rap/hip hop depending on what mood he’s in.

Shanelle Roark

Graphics Editor
​        Shanelle Roark has little to no social media experience, but has been trying to remedy that since joining Bond Wilson Technical Center.  Shanelle has been home schooled since the 3rd grade, and has not been enrolled in a public school since.  She takes an online high school called Penn Foster.  She also has been going to Bond Wilson to complete her high school electives and has been loving it.  Shanelle is a very adept reader and enjoys spending her afternoons reading and hanging out with her dogs.  She also enjoys going out to the wash in her Can-Am.

Kameron Tsosie

Graphics Editor
​       Kameron holds the position of graphics editor. Kameron has both instagram and snapchat. He has also done interviews for Powwows. He is very interactive and is willing to communicate. Kameron attends Kirtland Central High School and Bond Wilson Technical Center. Kameron has taken business computer applications, employability skills and university prep. Kameron is a dual sport athlete who plays baseball and basketball. He is very friendly and is an encouraging peer and teammate. Kameron is a fan of the band Rex Orange County. 

Byron gibbs

Website Coordinator
       Byron Gibbs holds the position of website coordinator and his experience is he uses instagram, facebook, snapchat, and also skype. The education he holds right now is high school. He goes to Kirtland Central High School and Bond Wilson Technical Center. When he was little he went to Montezuma Creek Elementary School until 6th grade, then he moved to Heights Middle School for 6th grade, then to Kirtland Elementary school for last month of his 6th grade year. He stayed in Kirtland and went to Kirtland middle school, then Kirtland Central High School. The classes he has taken are conceptual design, employability skills, robotics, and computer science. He does sports at Kirtland Central. He does football, wrestling, and track and field.
        Byron is a Junior and he always tries to get A's in all of his classes. He goes to summer programs to get credits for school and also to learn new things.

Tristen dobbs

Website Coordinator
      Tristen Dobbs holds the position of website coordinator for the afternoon of Ms. Howard’s New Media class. He moved to Kirtland in 2012 and attended Grace B. Wilson, Kirtland Middle School, and is currently a Junior at Kirtland Central High School. In the 10th grade, he was accepted into the Bond Wilson Technical Center program located in Kirtland, New Mexico. He has experience in snapchat, instagram, facebook, twitter, yahoo, and gmail. He also has an iphone 11, so he is familiar with facetime.            Some classes Tristen has taken at Bond Wilson and Kirtland Central are technical writing, drones, employability skills, robotics I and II, and English I, II, and III.
        He loves to be outdoors and a couple of his favorite hobbies are fishing, camping, watching the sunset, and stargazing. Tristen is also a tri-sport athlete at Kirtland Central. He is going to Australia on July 4 of 2020 for the Down Under Sports Competition for Track and Field.
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Jonah Dennis

Editor
        Jonah Dennis, a sophomore in high school, has moderate writing experience. He can use facebook, instagram, and snapchat. For his freshman year, he attended Smithson Valley High School, but he ended up going to Kirtland Central High School for his sophomore year.            Today, Jonah takes courses at Bond Wilson such as university prep and computer science. He considers himself to be an easygoing and friendly person with a good sense of humor. Some of his pastimes are hanging out with friends, playing soccer, wrestling, and golf.
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Staff of 2019!

Shiyazh Pete, Senior Editor

​Shiyazh Pete has little social media experience, but he recently opened up an Instagram and snapchat account. He barely posts anything. Shiyazh attends Shiprock High School. He has taken several English classes including college English. He considers himself a good writer. Shiyazh is a very social and friendly person. He plays football and is great at chess. He was born and raised in Missoula Montana. He’s six feet five inches tall and the fastest time he has completed a Rubik's Cube was 45 seconds.

Devon Norberto, Website Coordinator

Devon Norberto holds the position of Website Coordinator. Devon has experimented in website design. He has prior knowledge in graphic design and digital media from San Juan College. Devon attends Shiprock High School. He also is taking a class currently at Bond Wilson which is New Media Development. He also has previously taken Digital Media Arts and Computer Programming classes. Devon enjoys reading, cooking, and occasional basketball games. He also has a surprising interest of collecting rocks. He enjoys being at home in bed sleeping.
Martin Charley, Graphics Editor

​The experience that Martin has when it comes to Graphic Editing is taking photos for fun. Although he doesn’t post his photographs on any social media platform, taking photos eases his mind. Martin attends Kirtland Central High School as well as Bond Wilson Technical Center, where he is currently taking New Media Development. Martin enjoys playing soccer, videogames, and likes listening to music. His favorite subjects in school are Math and Science.

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Alexandria Heart, Copy Editor


Alexandria Heart holds the position of copy editor. Social Media experiences Alex has is posting pictures, and making posts on social media platforms.

Alex is going to school at Shiprock High School, she has taken an educational methodology college class in 2018. She is currently interested in her art class.

​She loves the ocean, experimenting with new foods/drinks, and she also likes finding new music to listen to.
Dempsey Burnette, Copy Editor
Dempsey Burnette holds the position of copy editor. Dempsey has a good amount of experience. He has Instagram, Facebook and a snapchat; he also has a experience with Microsoft word, Paint and power point. Dempsey in his school career has gone to multiple schools in 3 different states. He has taken English since he was young and one computer class that he had in middle school. He is also in New Media. Dempsey likes to watch Anime and play physical and video games. He also works a job.