Ava Amara Salado – Editor-In-Chief
Ava Salado is 17 years old in her senior year of high school, she enjoys studying History, Literature, and Environmental Conservation. She has been homeschooled her whole life. This is her forth year of writing for The Lighthouse but has been creating small stories since she was two. She has just started on her first…
Meru S. – Fiction Section Editor / A&E Editor
Meru S. is 14 years old and an ninth-grader who has been homeschooled throughout her life. She has loved being part of the Lighthouse staff since she joined out of her interest in writing. Her hobbies include reading (particularly fantasy), art, and horse riding. Meru has been playing the flute for six years and sings Carnatic music. She…
Olive Pea – Student Life Editor
Olive Pea is 14.5 years old, but her math book says that rounds to 15 so she does. Olive lives with her mom, dad, 12-year-old brother, two floppy, squishy cats, and a maniacal beast of a puppy named Pepper (who now has a master’s degree in sock thievery and destruction). During the school day you…
Lydia I. Martinov – Science Editor / Copy Editor
Once upon a time there was a writer named Lydia. Her fairytale is filled with animals, kids, and friends. She is 15 years old and in the 9th grade. She enjoys sketching and digital art. Lydia is very passionate about animals, and volunteers at the SPCA animal shelter in Dublin, California. Pet-sitting and dog-walking are…
Liam P. – Photographer & Videographer
Liam Pate is 10 years old and loves to play with LEGO’s. He is currently collecting Minecraft Lego sets. Liam enjoys playing chess and his favorite opponent is his dad. He also likes to play Minecraft with his friends. He loves animals and especially loves dogs. He feels uncomfortable around new dogs but once he gets…
Aleena Haimor – Staff Writer
Aleena Haimor is a 14-year-old Lebanese-American girl living in gorgeous Danville, California, with her parents, three siblings, and three very silly cats. Homeschooled since the beginning, Aleena is passionate and always tries to be kind to everyone around her. She’s an avid reader and writer, currently working on getting her first novel (current name: Hope)…
Lucas David – Cartoonist
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, there was a town called Danville, and in a house in that town there was a boy named Lucas… Lucas is 13 years old, and when he isn’t playing Dungeons and Dragons, he is probably designing 2D animation or reading Hunger Games and Harry Potter.…
Layal Hilal – Staff Writer
Layal Hilal is 12 years old and is half Palestinian half Syrian. She has been homeschooled since kindergarten and she loved it and still does. She loves to read, sing, write her novels, play piano, and hike, and she’s hoping to pursue writing as a career. Layal also really wants to be an actor when…
Emery Pugh – History Editor
Emery Pugh is currently in his last year of middle school. This is his second year of being a Lighthouse member. He was always an avid reader and writer, with most affinity towards fiction. Emery is also enthusiastic about science, engineering, and programming. His passion led him to found the Odyssey STEM Club in the…
Camden S. – Technology Editor
Camden S. is 15 years old and enjoys spending his free time coding, creating board games and making stuff with his 3D printer. Also, he loves animals, especially dogs. He enjoys reading and his favorite subjects to learn about are history and science. A passion of his has always been computers and he loves learning…
Hudson Ebach – Staff Writer
Hudson, 15, has been with TVE for about three years. Being in a Military family, Hudson has spent most of his time moving around the US, only sticking around the eastern part until 2021. So Hudson seems like this alien from Michigan, but anyway, Hudson enjoys spending his time either listening to Will Wood, playing…
Isabella W. – Staff Writer
Isabella loves art, animation, jewelry-making, macro-photography, entymology, and her many many rescued kittens. On any given day, Isabella can be found writing stories and haikus, inventing quirky characters and adventurous storylines.
Harper Smith – Staff Writer
Once there was a child chosen in a great prophecy, destined for a life filled with faeries, witches, elves, and majestic quests galore. Unfortunately a mistake was made and they ended up in this universe, so as an alternative they spend their days writing about all those things instead. Harper Smith is 15 years old…
Sabine B. – Staff Writer
Sabine is 15 and loves reading books and painting. Her favorite books are those about obscure mythologies. If you want, she would love to give you a two-hour long lecture about their erasure from history or about the attributes of some mysterious minor god. Oddly enough, her brother doesn’t seem to want to listen to…
Elaina David – Staff Writer
Elaina David is a 13 year old girl originally from Houston, Texas. (Amazing food…abysmal weather:) She loves reading books, especially historical fiction and fantasy. Currently she is interested in pursuing a career in journalism and/or archaeology. When she’s not begging her dad for family stories or delving into some new obsession, she can be found…
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