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December 14, 2011
The Oaktown Teen Times is proud to announce Silvia Cardona-Tapia as its first contributor of the issue for the 2011-12 school year.
Cardona-Tapia, 16, a 10th grader, is a second-year member of McClymonds’ online student news site, macksmack.
She also plays JV volleyball and does the statistics for the McClymonds football team.
Last year, she was involved in Culture Keepers, mentoring middle school students and creating a genealogy of her family.
For this issue of the Oaktown Teen Times, Cardona-Tapia covered her school’s victory in the Silver Bowl (page 8), as both a reporter and photographer, and wrote a column on this page in which she protests a move by McClymonds staff that placed girls into a dance class in place of physical education. Last year, she wrote about iPads that were promised to McClymonds students but never delivered.
“Silvia has helped recruit a team of reporters. She’s enthusiastic, opinionated, curious and bold — all characteristics of a budding journalist,” said Nadine Joseph, who advises macksmack along with Pamela Tapia, Silvia’s older sister.
Lisa Shafer, managing editor of the Oaktown Teen Times, also praised Cardona-Tapia.
“I have never met Silvia in person, but I feel like I know her because of her strong writing voice,” said Shafer. “The photographs she took at the Silver Bowl are as vivid as her writing. We look forward to more of her contributions this year and in the future.”
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