About Us

The HiLite is the student newspaper of Carmel High School in Carmel, Indiana. It has a press run of 4,500 and is distributed to Carmel students and faculty once per month. Copies are also available at the District Educational Services Center, city hall, the Chamber of Commerce, the Carmel public library and the three middle schools.

The HiLite belongs to the Indiana High School Press Association, Quill & Scroll and the National Scholastic Press Association.

Staff members of the HiLite may be contacted by using their first initial and their last name appending @hilite.org. For example, Laura Peng will receive mail sent to lpeng@hilite.org.

Editor in Chief: Laura Peng
Managing Editors: Patrick Bryant, Monica Cheng, Yameen Hameed, Caroline Zhang

Editors
Accountant: Meghan Lindgren
Acumen: Rachel Boyd, Dhruti Patel
Artist: Jiva Capulong, Connie Chu, Liane Yue, Melinda Song
15 Minutes of Fame: Henry Zhu
Beats/Calendar: Rochelle Brual, Claudia Huang, Aruni Ranaweera, Hafsa Razi, Katie Utken
Cover Story: Victor Xu
Entertainment: Natalie Maier, Amira Malcom
Feature: Tony Tan, Ryan Zukerman
Front Page: Conner Gordon, Melinda Song
Media Liaison: Stuart Jackson
News: Chris Li, Andy Yang
Perspectives: Kendall Harshberger, Adele Zhou
Photography: Conner Gordon, Mary Brooke Johnson
Special Projects: Grayson Harbour
Sports: James Benedict, Charlie Browning, Matt Barnthouse
Student Section: Sarah Yun
Web: Omeed Malekmarzban, Nick McLaughlin, Ray Qian, Patrick Tan

Ads Staff
Ken Li, Matt Wehner

Reporters
Taylor Acton, Ben Anderson, Nick Andrews, Jacob Botkin, Rochelle Brual, Bobby Browning, David Choe, John Du, Linsu Han, Eric He, Claudia Huang, Tim Klein, Caitlin Muller, Hafsa Razi, Aruni Ranaweera, Sean Truax, Katie Utken, Jacob Vahle, Lindsay Walker, Andrew Wang, Matt Wehner, Olivia Weprich, Julie Xu, Sheen Zheng

Photographers
Kathleen Bertsch, Gavin Colavito, Makenzie Curtis, Mikaela George, Henry Jackson, Stuart Jackson, Amira Malcom, Omeed Malekmarzban, Hailey Meyer, Henry Zhu

Administration
Adviser: Jim Streisel
Principal: John Williams
Superintendent: Jeff Swensson