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Meet the Youth News Team!

There are a great number of talented people working to bring you the bimonthly newspapers.

Want to know a bit more about them?

Here you go!

Name: Chelsea Warren

Age: 13

School: Bermuda Institute

Hobbies: Eat ice-cream, shop, watch t.v., hang out with friends

Favorite Youth News Topics: Different types of food (like Ice cream), serious issues that have an impact on the youth (obesity) and the different types of fashion in Bermuda.

Favorite Quote: “Just m Chelsea!”

Future Career: an accountant or lawyer

Role in Youth News: Journalist.

Name: Ari Minors

Age:12

School: Clearwater Middle School

Hobbies: Read, Dance

Favorite Youth News Topics: Adventures.

Favorite Quote: “Early bird gets the worm.”

Future Career: Brain surgeon.

Role in Youth News: Journalist.

Name: Donnae Norford

A age: 13

School: Bermuda Institute

Hobbies: Shop, go on the computer, have fun

Favorite Youth News Topics: Serious problems in Bermuda.

Favorite Quote: “Be Yours”

Role in Youth News: Journalist.

Name: Nick Park

Age: 15

School: Saltus Grammar School

Hobbies: Hang out with friends and play golf.

W: Sports and politics.

Favorite Quote: “All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice honor, duty, mercy, hope.” Sir Winston Churchill

Future Career: It is currently undecided but I like economics and geography so many something related to those two subjects.

Fun Fact: I am Scottish but have lived in 7 different countries!

Name: Kristen Simmons

Age: 16

School: Cedarbridge Academy

Hobbies: Socialize in any way, have fun, listen to music.

Favorite Youth News Topics: Anything!

Favorite Quote: “Live, Love, Laugh, and Learn” –me!

Future Career: An accountant with some work in journalism.

Fun Fact: My favorite color is pink.

Name: Shelbi Virgil

Age: 17

School: Cedarbridge Academy

Hobbies: Hang with friends, shop, travel, draw, read and listen to music.

Favorite Youth News Topics: Fashion.

Favorite Quote: Keep your head up.

Future Career: Fashion journalism or fashion marketing.

Role in Youth News: Journalist.

Name: Sarah Russo

Age: 17

School: Bermuda High School

Hobbies: hang out with friends, watch TV, paint, read, go to town or the beach

Future Career: Journalist or writer.

Fun Fact: I’m symmetrical.

Role in Youth News: Journalist.

Name: Ivan Slayton

Age: 16

School: Warwick Academy

Hobbies: I enjoy reading many different books, mostly history. I have a fondness for arguing (debating) many different topics of common conversation.

Favorite Youth News Topics: I like writing about topics that affect me directly.

Favorite Quote: I would like to be a writer who lives in Russia, traveling around the vast countryside.

Future Career: “To get my men over a minefield, I march them through it.” –General Patton

Fun Fact: I have broke my computer 6 times in the last 3 years.

Name: Daniel Slayton

Age: 14

School: Warwick Academy

Hobbies: I enjoy playing video games and owning my friends and baby brother. Shabam.

Favorite Youth News Topics: I like to write about topics that affect Bermuda.

Favorite Quote:  “There are two types of men on this beach, the dead, and the men who are going to die.” –“The Longest Day”

Future Career: I am unsure, but I’m leaning towards a job where I am not often at a desk. Maybe I will join a guerilla faction in a third world country.

Fun Fact: My first word was “Daddy.”

Name: Schuyler Ruberry

Age: 18

School: Saltus Grammar School (Graduate)
Hobbies:
See friends, listen to music, make art, play video games

Favorite Youth News Topics:  I don’t write currently, I take pictures and work with the technical side of things. If I did, I would write about entertainment.

Favorite Quote: Stay positive.

Future Career: Something artistic, currently I have nothing pinpointed.

Fun Fact: I have only won 1 game of rock-paper-scissors in my life.

Role in Youth News: Web site coeditor, photographer.

Name:Sasha Slayton

Age:17

School:BHS

Hobbies:Play with my dogs, sit off with friends, look things up on wikipedia

Favorite Youth News Topics: Everything ! From fashion to the tougher issues that teenagers face.

Favorite Quote: « To whom much is given, much is expected »

Future Career: Non-profit or reinsurance

Fun Fact: I have two children-German Shepherds named Dark and Stormy.

Role in Youth News: Web site coeditor, journalist.

Name: Genevieve Gordon

Age: 17

School:  Bermuda High School

Hobbies: Have fun with my friends, drive, horseback ride

Favorite Youth News Topics: Filming the 2008 Bermuda Music Festival!

Future Career: television production and management

Fun Fact: I live a double life.

Role in Youth News: Journalist and film crew.