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  • December 5Meet the 2024-2025 staff of The Patriot Post!
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The Patriot Post

The Student News Site of Colonia Middle School

The Patriot Post

2024-2025 Staff

Ahmad Bilal
Newspaper Staff Reporter

Ahmad Bilal

Ahmad Bilal is a Muslim Pakistani who likes astronomy, gaming and technology. As an 8th grader at CMS, he also enjoys some particular school activities. He loves math, science, history and geography. He has 3 siblings, pet fish, an...

Zoha Bilal
Newspaper Staff Reporter

Zoha Bilal

Zoha Bilal is a 7th grader at CMS who loves to have fun and participate. She balances G&T, and her honors classes, as well as having spare time for herself and her friends/family. She loves to bake, volunteer, and spend t...

Vanshi Chinai
Newspaper Staff Reporter

Vanshi Chinai

Vanshi Chinai is a 7th grader who attends CMS ( Colonia Middle School).  She loves reading. Her favorite genres are rom com and mystery. She loves watching movies. She’s started watching Marvel movies so far. She also aims to...

Mila Dreitser
Newspaper Staff Reporter

Mila Dreitser

Mila Dreitser is a 6th grader in Colonia Middle School. Some of her hobbies are drawing, baking, cooking, and writing. She is in Honors Language Arts. She has two siblings and a half sister. She used to go to Pennsylvania Aven...

Calleigh Feehan
Newspaper Staff Reporter

Calleigh Feehan

Calleigh Jade Feehan is a 13 year old, 7th grade CMS student who loves to write. She takes part in “Gifted and Talented: Creative Writing /Theater Arts.” She enjoys watching old movies and TV shows with her family, with one...

Brendan Ference
Newspaper Staff Reporter

Brendan Ference

Brendan Ference is a 7th grader who attends Colonia Middle School. He enjoys running on the Colonia cross-country team. Brendan is a percussionist for our school's 7th grade band and wind ensemble. At home, he has fun playing wit...

Pavan Ganesh
Newspaper Staff Reporter

Pavan Ganesh

Pavan Ganesh is an 8th grader at Colonia Middle School and a staff member of The Patriot Post. He likes to play soccer, kickball and hangout with his friends. Pavan enjoys playing video games such as Roblox and enjoys going out ...

Nabiha Hanif
Newspaper Staff Reporter

Nabiha Hanif

Nabiha Hanif is a 12-year old, 7th grade girl at Colonia Middle School. Her favorite colors are purple and blue. Her hobbies are coloring, drawing, watching TV, and building Legos. Nabiha is the oldest in her family with one y...

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Newspaper Staff Reporter

Alexis Jumao-as

Alexis Jumao-as is a 7th grader at Colonia Middle School. Her hobbies are playing the clarinet, running, biking, and traveling! One of her most memorable trips was to Paris, France and visiting the Eiffel Tower! She also enjo...

Alek Lesniak
Newspaper Staff Reporter

Alek Lesniak

Alek Lesniak is a 13-year-old 8th grader at Colonia Middle School. He likes to spend time with his friends and learn about retail business and old stores like Sears, Kmart, and Montgomery Ward. He also enjoys watching basebal...

Shaan Mahajan
Newspaper Staff Reporter

Shaan Mahajan

Shaan Mahajan is in 8th grade. The 13 year old has attended CMS for 3 years (Colonia Middle School). He gets good grades and likes history. What he likes about the subject is learning about the people who made America the way...

Sohan Mahajan
Newspaper Staff Reporter

Sohan Mahajan

Sohan Mahajan is in 6th grade. He attends (CMS) Colonia Middle School. He is eleven years old and plays travel soccer on a team called Woodbridge United. He also plays American football for fun. His favorite subjects in school...

Oliviya Medina
Newspaper Staff Reporter

Oliviya Medina

Oliviya Medina is a 6th-grade girl at CMS who loves to be artistic. She is a girl who wants to be a nurse in a children’s hospital when she grows up. She likes to have fun and is always up for a game of chess. She prefers to...

Tafia Mokaram
Newspaper Staff Reporter

Tafia Mokaram

Tafia Mokaram is a 7th grader at Colonia Middle School. Her favorite subject is history/government, but she also likes writing. Some of her hobbies include playing the trumpet, painting/drawing, reading, and binge-watching mov...

Aarav Nair
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Aarav Nair

Aarav Nair is an 8th grader at Colonia Middle School. He is 13 years old, and likes to read books, play video games, and listen to music. His favorite books are the Harry Potter series. He likes to listen to video game music, ...

Arav Patel
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Arav Patel

Arav Patel is 13 years old who goes to Colonia Middle School. He enjoys playing board games, traveling around the world, and playing cricket. He loves hanging out with his friends. His favorite subject is math and he also lov...

Diya Patel
Newspaper Staff Reporter

Diya Patel

Diya Patel is a 7th grader at CMS. She loves to spend time with her cousins and her little sister, Vrinda. She loves to read and binge watch her favorite Netflix shows. She also loves to play "Dress to Impress" and "Murder Mystery...

Krish Patel
Newspaper Staff Reporter

Krish Patel

Krish Patel is an 11-year old 6th grader at CMS.  He is very excited for his first year here.  He enjoys problem solving, hanging out with friends, and writing stories.  He has always wanted to be in a newspaper club.  He...

Daanish Qayyum
Newspaper Staff Reporter

Daanish Qayyum

Daanish Qayyum is an 8th grader at CMS and member of the Patriot Post. He enjoys baking and math. He watches anime occasionally such as Jujutsu Kaisen and One Punch Man. He is an aspiring mechanical engineer and poet, as well as t...

Sana Rehman
Newspaper Staff Reporter

Sana Rehman

Sana Rehman is a seventh grader at CMS whose imagination knows no bounds, particularly in her G&T creative writing/theater arts class. While she enjoys the world of words, her true passion lay in the chilling realms of horro...

Sarai Sears
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Sarai Sears

 Sarai Sears is energetic, book-loving, and sweet. She loves surprises and enjoys a good laugh. If you want to see her get really excited, bring a dog, she’ll go crazy! Sarai is passionate about the care and protection of anim...

Samar Sehgal
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Samar Sehgal

Samar Sehgal is an 8th grader studying at CMS (Colonia Middle School). In his free time, he loves to do many things and spend time with his family and friends. He enjoys playing basketball and cricket. From a very young age, he was a...

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Skyler Serrano

Skyler Serrano is an 8th grader in Colonia Middle School. He is a student athlete who plays soccer, basketball, and runs in cross country. He is a student council member in school and he enjoys playing video games and hanging ou...

Harshika Singh
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Harshika Singh

Harshika Singh is a 7th grader at Colonia Middle School who loves writing and poetry. Her hobbies include reading, drawing, gardening, cooking, roller skating and chess when she can. Between balancing G&T and honors classes, she...

Ryan Terebetsky
Newspaper Staff Reporter

Ryan Terebetsky

Ryan Terebetsky is a 13 year old 8th grader at CMS (Colonia Middle School).  His favorite colors are green, blue and orange. He loves pizza and he has a pet bunny named Dash.  He loves to play video games and his favorite TV...

Brian Uduwala
Newspaper Staff Reporter

Brian Uduwala

Brian Uduwala is a 7th grader at Colonia Middle School with a passion for studying. His favorite subjects are science and history, and he is currently exploring Greek mythology. Brian strives for top grades and is actively invo...

Marcus Boatwright
Newspaper Staff Reporter

Marcus Boatwright

Marcus Boatwright is an 11 year old CMS student who has Autism. He has two brothers.  Daniel is 13 years old, and Grayson is 3 years old.  These brothers have a lot of cousins.  Marcus’s favorite game is Minecraft.  Marcus’s...

Rafaella Sarmiento
Newspaper Staff Reporter

Rafaella Sarmiento

Rafaella Sarmiento is an outgoing 7th-grade student. She loves to play sports, play with her dog, and hang out with her friends. Her favorite movie is "Scream 3". Her favorite songs are "Seven” by Jungkook and "LALALALA” by...