The news site of Marquette High School

Marquette Messenger
The news site of Marquette High School

Marquette Messenger
The news site of Marquette High School

Marquette Messenger
Anika Talyan

Anika Talyan, Copy Editor

Anika Talyan, senior, is the Copy Editor for the Marquette Messenger. This is her fourth year on staff. At MHS she is involved in Robotics and RSD Lives. In her free time, she enjoys reading, swimming, playing the guitar and hanging out with her friends.

All content by Anika Talyan
Layla Torgoley, college counselor, looks at food from the MHS Food Pantry while wearing a sweatshirt she created to support the pantry. Torgoley has created shirt designs for the guidance office before but after excitement and support from other staff members, she opened the shirt orders to the entire school. Torgoley is donating a portion of her proceedings to the MHS Food Pantry. “Our Food Pantry is in need of some extra assistance. So we thought we could donate to that,” Torgoley said.

Counselors Sell Sweatshirts to Support Food Pantry

Aarushi Bute and Anika Talyan
March 15, 2023
Approximately 40 percent of the American population collects something, and that number is only growing, according to Psychology Today.

[Photo] In-Depth: Collectible Craze

Rue Siddiqui and Jacob Robinson
February 15, 2023
HOSA officers send information about MedTalks to students. The first in-person MedTalks in years is being held in the theater on Feb. 4.

HOSA MedTalks Come Back In-Person

Anika Talyan and Anvi Talyan
January 27, 2023
Emily Stockwell, language arts teacher, looks over her bingo chart for the library's Winter Reading Challenge. The Winter Reading Challenge encourages people to read by giving them an opportunity to enter their name into a raffle for prizes by working on the bingo card. Stockwell said she is excited to do the challenge and that she hopes it motivates her to read genres that she hadn't earlier.

Motivation Found with Winter Reading Challenge

Anika Talyan and Tiona Merritte
January 3, 2023
Emily Stockwell, language arts teacher, looks over her bingo chart for the library's Winter Reading Challenge. The Winter Reading Challenge encourages people to read by giving them an opportunity to enter their name into a raffle for prizes by working on the bingo card. Stockwell said she is excited to do the challenge and that she hopes it motivates her to read genres that she hadn't earlier.

Maya Tegman, senior, and her cousin pose for a BeReal in front of the Trevy Fountain in Rome, Italy, on May 31. During the beginning of the summer, Tegman took a trip in Europe and used BeReal as a way to document her trip. "It's a way to document my memories," Tegman said.

Is it Authentic? People reflect on the authenticity of social media

Aarushi Bute and Anika Talyan
October 28, 2022
Niko Kilo, senior, and his teammate, Willem Hummel, are running a 5K as they pass a boy during the Hazelwood cross country meet on Oct. 7. As they passed the boy, they secured the Varsity cross country team's 1st place in the meet. Kilo placed 6th in the race, and Hummel placed 5th. "We gave it our all," Kilo said.

Cross Country Places First in Meet

Anika Talyan and Emma Tyulyayev
October 14, 2022
The cast and crew of Pippin starts rehersal and is working on their vaudville interpretation of the musical. Pippin is being shown from December 8-11.

Pippin Starts Rehersal

Anika Talyan and Emma Tyulyayev
September 16, 2022
The percussions section of the band poses with the second place trophy that they earned at Timberland High School on Sat. August 28. Allison Sanders, freshman, played bass drum and said she liked that they were awarded for their hard work. "It felt really good to get second," Sanders said.

Percussion Section of Band Places Section in Competition

Anika Talyan, Copy Editor
September 7, 2022
Pitching coach Adam Starling watches the game against Lindbergh on Thursday April 21, and take notes of the team's performance. This is his last year of coaching befire he becomes the new actvities director.

Coach Starling Accepts Admin Position

Anika Talyan, A&E Editor
May 5, 2022
Pixar's new movie "Turning Red" released on Disney+ on March 11.

Review: Turning Red

Anika Talyan, A&E Editor
March 31, 2022
Many MHS students have started building their own computers. Carter Long, junior, built their computer (pictured above) by buying the appropriate parts and putting them together.

Technology From Scratch: Students, Staff Build Computers

Akhila Swarna, Anika Talyan, Emma Tyulyayev, and Carter Long
February 22, 2022
C68CD3B3-266C-4958-820C-724D7DB31577

[Photo] Music Makers: Students Upload Music to Spotify, SoundCloud

Anvi Talyan, Staff Reporter
February 22, 2022
Brandon Forrest, owner of local comic shop Altered State, opened in October. Forrest said that Spider-Man has sold over 218 comics in the last two months.

[Photo] Fans Reflect on Evolution of Spider-Man

Aarushi Bute (she/her), Co-Associate Editor
December 27, 2021
Disney's 60th animated movie, Encanto, has been released in theaters.

Review: Encanto

Anika Talyan (she/her), A&E Editor
December 17, 2021
Mary Kate Miesner, senior, currently works at Stefanina's, which is owned by Brendan Taylor, social studies teacher. Miesner had Taylor as her freshman year soccer coach.

Working Overtime: Teachers own businesses

Anika Talyan (she/her), A&E Editor
November 30, 2021
Zoe Lloyd, junior, drew this illustration for the Day 2 prompt, Suit. It takes Lloyd about an hour to do each illustration, depending on how inspired she is as well as how intricate the drawing is.

Inktober: Students Participate in Daily Art Challenge

Anika Talyan (she/her), A&E Editor
October 29, 2021
An MHS cafeteria worker hands out lunch to students during the shortage of cafeteria staff.

Falling Short: RSD Faces Bus Driver, Substitute & Cafeteria Worker Shortages

Aarushi Bute (she/her), Marin Ellington (she/her), and Anika Talyan (she/her)
October 5, 2021

Custodian Illustrates Children’s Book

Anika Talyan, A&E Editor
September 26, 2021
Shadow and Bone is a new Netflix series based on the "Shadow and Bone" trilogy written by Leigh Bardugo. The first season follows the first book of the series while creating new plotlines based on characters from Bardugo's spinoff duology "Six of Crows."

Shadow and Bone Review

Anika Talyan, Page Designer
May 4, 2021
When I opened Instagram one day, the last thing that I was expecting was a ton of posts about Lebanon. Post after post was about the horrific blast that caused destruction and chaos. While I did feel awful for the people that this event has hurt, I also felt numb.

Gen-Z is too Normalized to Tragedies

Anika Talyan, Page Designer
November 24, 2020
Some teachers are using Exam login as a way to give out assessments.

RSD has implemented a new policy called “Hold Harmless”

Anika Talyan, Staff Reporter
April 8, 2020
Adam Cohen and Shon Sayfunddinov, Baryon members, compete in the quarterfinals with their alliance partners, The Red Hot Techie Peppers. They competed against the Luxons, whose alliance partners were the Robot Warriors. The Baryons’ team won with the points being 80-53. Cohen has been in robotics since his freshman year and is now the head documenter. He thought that driving is one of the most fun parts of robotics. “It's just really fun to go out there and compete with the other teams and see what people can do,” Cohen said.

Photo Gallery: All Three MHS Robotics Teams go to State

Anika Talyan, Staff Reporter
March 12, 2020
Review: All the Bright Places

Review: All the Bright Places

Anika Talyan, Staff Reporter
March 12, 2020
Donate to Marquette Messenger
$115
$625
Contributed
Our Goal