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  • June 4The Black Team of seniors and freshmen wins the 2025 Powderpuff Football Game, with a final score of 21-0!
  • May 16Your 2025 PNMA Winners are Ariga Safaryans and Hasmik Tumasyan! This is the fourth tie in the 60-year history of the award, and the first one since 1993!
  • April 30Senior Hasmik Tumasyan wins 2025 Lancaster Prize. Fellow senior Kate Enriquez is the other finalist for the award.
  • March 82025 Oratorical Results: Seniors win Discipline and Spirit, Juniors win VAPA, Sophomores win Speech!
  • February 20Junior Clark transfer Anthony Alfaro elected ASB President for the 2025-26 school year.
  • August 23Nitro football team wins first game of the season against Don Bosco Tech, 38-0!
  • May 31The Black Team defeats the Pink Team, 41-7, in the 2024 Powderpuff Football Game!
  • May 24Senior Lilit Arakelyan wins the 2024 Pat Navalonic Memorial Award! Lilit will be attending UCLA in the fall!
  • May 1Senior Alexis Cabral wins the 2024 Lancaster Prize, for her article "A Day Without a Phone"!
  • November 18Girls varsity volleyball team defeats Marin Academy, 3-1, to win CIF Division IV State Championship!
The News Website for Glendale High School

Explosion

The News Website for Glendale High School

Explosion

2025-2026 Staff

Erica Hovanesian
Editor-in-Chief

Erica Hovanesian

Erica is a senior at Glendale High School. She is currently serving as the Editor-in-Chief of Explosion, and for the past four years of her high school journey, she has been a part of the journalism class. Her future after high school is to pursue sports broadcasting. She is the ASB Director of Nitro Crew, and she is the treasurer of the Pre-Law Club and Art Club. She was also a part of the girls JV...

Valentina Sandoval
Spotlight Editor

Valentina Sandoval

Valentina is a junior at Glendale High School. She is the center snare and drum captain of our school’s drumline and Ignite teams. She is a part of Nitro Crew, and in her free time, she enjoys writing, reading, listening to music, watching video essays on YouTube and procrastinating on anything and everything!

Enrica Briones
Reviews Editor

Enrica Briones

Enrica is a senior at Glendale High School. This is her second and last year in the journalism program. Some of her hobbies include writing, reading and collecting merch. She also likes K-pop, especially the groups Seventeen, BTS, Enhypen, Ateez, TXT and Le Sserafim.

Elayna Ovasapyan
Social Media Director

Elayna Ovasapyan

Elayna is a senior at Glendale High School. She is president of the Holistic Health Club and former president of the Art Club. This is her third year as a member of the Explosion staff. Her interests include nutrition, art, wellness, journaling, cooking and fashion.

Staff Writer

Narek Abgaryan

Narek is a junior at Glendale High School. He is involved in journalism and cinematography on our campus. In his free time, he likes to watch sports, read and play video games, and he also goes to taekwondo.

Noah Adigozyan
Staff Writer

Noah Adigozyan

Noah is a senior at Glendale High School. He is the ASB Secretary and a member of multiple clubs at GHS. He plans to pursue a career in international law. In his free time, he likes going to the beach and theme parks.

Staff Writer

Maria Aleksanyan

Maria is a senior in Glendale High School. She likes to hang out with her friends, listen to music and watch movies and TV shows. In her free time, she likes to watch rom-coms, drive around with her friends and go to coffee shops. She wants to become a lawyer after high school, so she wants to prepare for law school while in college.

Lily Bagdyan
Staff Writer

Lily Bagdyan

Lily is a junior at Glendale High School. This is her second year in journalism, and she was on the girls softball team for two years. She enjoys listening to music, such as Arctic Monekys, Tyler the Creator, and Weezer. She also enjoys watching shows, like Arrested Development and Malcolm in the Middle.

Shushanik Grigoryan
Staff Writer

Shushanik Grigoryan

Shushanik is a junior at Glendale High School. She is the cabinet secretary of the California Scholarship Federation. She enjoys listening to music, hanging out with her friends and playing with her dog.

Andrea Guido
Staff Writer

Andrea Guido

Andrea is a freshman at Glendale High School. She is a part of the Glendale Nitros softball team. In her free time, she likes to hang out with her friends, play softball and go to the mall.

Charlize A. Huezo-Melendez
Staff Writer

Charlize A. Huezo-Melendez

Charlize is a junior at Glendale High School. She is the vice-president of the Criminology Club; meanwhile, outside of school, she stays active through dance, gymnastics and swimming. In her free time, she enjoys reading nonfiction books, watching Netflix and spending time with her friends.

Staff Writer

Alexander Kazarian

Alexander is a sophomore who attends Glendale High School. He isn’t in any major groups or clubs besides being in the Nitro Press. As his hobbies, he enjoys playing video games and watching action movies. He has one pet, and that is a dog.

Jasmine Khachatryan
Staff Writer

Jasmine Khachatryan

Jasmine is a senior at Glendale High School. She is a responsible, respectful and kind person. In her free time, she likes keeping herself busy by working out, spending time with her friends and family and binge-watching movies.

Staff Writer

Emily Khonkaryan

Emily is a senior at Glendale High School. She wants to become a nurse when she graduates from high school. She enjoys driving, going out with friends and watching movies.

Staff Writer

Yasmine Laqra

Yasmine is a junior at Glendale High School. She is on the Glendale cross country team, and she is a passionate viola player. In her free time, she likes to listen to music, read and browse movies on Letterbox. Her favorite movies include, but are not limited to, Fight Club, Donnie Darko and Good Will Hunting. Musically, she enjoys listening to Elliot Smith and Neutral Milk Hotel....

Staff Writer

Anna Movsesyan

Anna is a senior at Glendale High School. She likes reading, writing, listening to music and playing musical instruments.

Rebecca Perez
Staff Writer

Rebecca Perez

Rebecca is a senior at Glendale High. She is the 2025 drum major of the GHS marching band, serves as the president and lead alto saxophone of the GHS jazz band, and plays the alto sax in both the Glendale Youth Symphony and LA Youth Jazz Coalition. This is her fourth and final year as a staff writer for Explosion. Some of her hobbies include listening to music, reading, and going out to eat with frien...

Alexandra Salcedo
Staff Writer

Alexandra Salcedo

Alexandra is a senior at Glendale High School and a two-year member of Nitro Press. She is a talented artist who works with acrylic paint and watercolors. In her spare time, she likes to read, when she's not participating in the GHS technical theater program.

Staff Writer

Arpine Shekoyan

Arpine is a senior at Glendale High School. She likes going to workouts and enjoys going on night walks.

Artur Torabyan
Staff Writer

Artur Torabyan

Artur is a senior at Glendale High School. This is his second year in Journalism. He’s a big soccer fan, he likes listening to music, and he enjoys doing photography in his off time.

Destiny Velina
Staff Writer

Destiny Velina

Destiny is a senior at Glendale High School. She is an ASB secretary, and she is the president of the GHS Spanish Club, a Nitro Crew leader and a two-year member of our yearbook staff. She’s a part of the varsity softball team and she has been in the program for now four years now. In her free time she enjoys hanging with friends, listening to music and taking photos. In her future, she plans on...

Naelie Zermeño
Staff Writer

Naelie Zermeño

Naelie is a junior at Glendale High School. She is the publicist for the Class of 2027. Her interests and hobbies include nature, playing piano, writing and watching period films. She also has a dachshund named Willy-Wonka!

Jon Livingston
Advisor

Jon Livingston

Mr. Livingston is the Explosion advisor at Glendale High School. He is also the ASB advisor and the advisor for Stylus, the GHS yearbook. He is currently in his 26th year of teaching, and he enjoys spending time with his family, reading, watching movies, going to Dodger games, rooting for his beloved UCLA football team and playing disc golf (poorly).