Get to know our staff at Patriot Pages

Our 2024/2025 Team!

From Top Left to Right Bottom: Sumaiya Siddiqui, Jack Bell, Evelyn Dulle, Xander Thorsten, Shruthi Pula, Muizza Hyder, Liberty Milhollin, Akhash Baskar, Elikeh Adjokatse, Lilly Paul, Josephine Rollins, Charlotte Carter, Margaret Hayton, and Bridget Hayton

Rare Sighting

Muizza and Liberty birds spotted in tree just outside school

2025-26

Kaileigh Ambrose

A 12 year old writer named Kaileigh Ambrose in her second year of middle school. She goes to Thomas Jefferson Middle School and has recently joined the club patriot pages. She loves to write and cares a lot about her education. Patriot pages is one of the activities she looks forward to being in this year. She loves things like music and art, and she even plays the violin in her school’s orchestra, but has recently fallen in love with writing. She is happy to be a part of the club and looks forward to what this club has and explores.

Rubi Cobb

Rubina Cobb is a sixth grader here at Thomas Jefferson Middle School who is a Patriot Pages editor. She finds her love in writing, drawing and crocheting, who also loves scary stories. She works on them in her free time and also reads in her free time. She loves animals and has a fear of planes and spiders. Her dream is to be a zoologist because she loves animals and she wants to work with them. She loves math but it can get tricky sometimes but rubi tries her hardest most of the time.

Alex Coats

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Coraline Durham

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Monroe Elliot

Monroe Elliott is a sixth grader at Thomas Jefferson Middle School. Her love of writing came from the Young Writer short stories contest and got published in two of them. She joined Patriot Pages and entered for an interview with Natalie Lloyd at the Performance Art Center here in Jefferson City during a field trip. Monroe just moved from Ashland to Jefferson City.

Bridget Hayton

Bridget Hayton is a creative, fun-loving writer, with a lot of hobbies. Despite having lots of interests, she feels as though writing is one of the most important. She enjoys writing in general, but her favorite thing to write is mystery stories. She does so in Patriot Pages, her favorite after-school club, that she has been chosen to do for two years straight! She usually expresses her feelings through writing, so it’s very important to her.

Margaret Hayton

Margaret is a 7th grader at TJ, and has always aspired to become an author. She enjoys spelling, reading, theatre, and art; however, writing is her true passion. With multiple novels in the works, in which she hopes to publish soon, nothing can stop her from achieving her goals. She’s involved in multiple extracurricular activities; such as archery, Patriot Pages, and Advanced Stringers. Outside of school, she partakes in piano and violin lessons; and nothing pleases her more than taking care of animals. She hopes to publish and edit Patriot Pages submissions, and to contribute as much as she can!

Skyler Jackson

Skyler Jackson is a 13 year old 8th grade student who is an aspiring writer, and has been writing with her fathers encouragement since she was little. Skyler had been in accelerated classes since she was in 3rd grade, and has received two scholarships in private schools in 6th and 7th grade. She has gotten great grades for her entire school career, and has gotten high praise from writing teachers in the past. Skyler loves writing and reading, which was how she got into many of the accelerated classes and clubs she has been in in the past.

Fay Kipp

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Norah Kleffner

Norah found her love for writing in the fourth grade when her teacher assigned a writing assignment and had to write a fictional story that had 10 paragraphs. In fifth grade she found her love for fictional writing. then made 5 notebooks with stories. Most recently she has made it into patriot pages at middle school. Norah has 86 unpublished short stories about 25 different fictional characters (with a lot of sequels). She will spend free time reading fictional novels like Harry Potter or Percy Jackson. Norah also loves to read Greek mythology books and a medieval dynasty war novel.

Makayla Nelson

Makayla Nelson is a sixth grader at Thomas Jefferson Middle School, as well as an student editor in a writing program, Patriot Pages. She won her school spelling bee in fifth grade and went onto the Scripps National Spelling Bee, where she placed fourth out of forty-seven kids. Makayla loves to write in first person so she can really describe her feelings and emotions. She looks forward to her first hour because her first hour is writing class. Makayla would like to go to the University of Missouri someday.

Sumaiya Siddiqui

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Bonnie Sosnowski

Bonnie Sosnowski is a sixth grade student at Thomas Jefferson Middle School. Around nine years old, she found a love for English Language Arts. She has been writing creative and factual stories since she was six years old. In fifth grade, she won a prize with two other friends for writing and acting a short tale. In sixth grade, she was accepted into Patriot Pages as an editor. When she was 7 years old, she wrote a fantasy novel. She can write any kind of story. She’s an amazing writer and is very excited to write for years to come.

Xander Thorsten

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Jolynn Vanpelt

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Hayden Zink

Hayden Zink is a young, inspiring author and creator. She has 3 unfinished novels, 2 other finished novels, but none published. She has stated that she is “Often inspired by novels or online content I see in a day-to-day life, but more over inspired by music.” This author-to-be aims to establish a connection between music and literature, which she plans to achieve by incorporating well-known lyrics into her writing. Hayden is most known for her creative fiction and fantasy writing and the way her words “roll off the tongue,” as one of her peers has stated.

Alyssa Bunting

Simon Blomberg

Charli Bond

Simon Blomberg is an editor at Patriot Pages. His Current GPA is 4.00. He does baseball mostly. He is soon going to do football and wrestling. He is a Marvel Student in 6th Grade. He likes video games such as Call Of Duty, Battlefield, Madden and Fortnite.

Alli is a 7th grade girl on team visionaries who has a passion for acting and loves art. She loves animals and has a dog named Molly and a fish named Artemis. Alli loves to watch football and baseball. She is hardworking and likes to read.

Alyssa is a 6th grade girl who loves art and creativity. She has a passion for making people laugh. She may not be the best dancer, but she likes to be groovy and movie. Alyssa's fish named Ferdinand is a midnight blue betta fish. She definitely does not forget to feed him sometimes.

Charli is a 6th grade girl on Team Apex. She loves to sing and dance. She spends her free time playing on her phone and talking to friends. She loves to write and hang out with her friends in P.E.

Allison Arnold

Joseph Effa

Kyah Holleman

Vinaya Diwakar

Claire Cornwell

Mercy Oluwadre

Favour Oluwadre

Mercy Oluwadre

Mercy Oluwadare, a 6th grade student on Team Marvel, is an editor of patriot pages as an athletic journalist, outreach, advertising, fundraising, and events. She's also in speech and debate going to a club Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. Her favorite subject is math and has a high interest in volleyball with it being her favorite sport and hobby. She keeps straight A’s and smiles everyday at school being polite, and hardworking, spreading her positive energy as she thrives everyday.

Favour Oluwadare

Her name is Favour Oluwadare. She immigrated from Nigeria, Africa, at the age of 8. As far as she could remember she’s always dreamed of becoming a doctor. ‘My greatest aspiration in life is to be a surgeon with a beautiful family,’ she said when she was asked. She has participated in 12 clubs in total in her middle school career. She is currently in 8th grade and plans on leaving her middle school career with a perfect streak of straight A’s.

Muizza Hyder

Jenni Shi

Liberty Milhollin

Theo Kintzel

Liberty Milhollin

Liberty Milhollin: Liberty is a 6th grader in Patriot Pages. Her interests are soccer, Viola ( The best instrument BTW ), Marvel and DC movies/shows, and Reading. She would love to be a teacher when she grows up.

Martin Samuel

Martin Samuel: Encounter Martin Samuel.He is in 6th grade and on team Marvel He's said he’s interested in basketball and soccer, and loves the color green. He also loves anime and thinks everybody should watch it. He had a 4.0 GPA since last term and said he will not continue with it. He is also a phenomenal actor. He loves food, Jesus and basically almost everything. Once you get to know him I think you will be great friends, (Unless you are so annoying to the point where it’s unacceptable.)

Martin Samuel

Akhash Baskar

Elikeh Adjokatse

Elikeh Adjokatse

He loves playing basketball and football. Especially the NFL and NBA. HIs favorite NFL team is the Buffalo Bills and his favorite NBA team is the Boston Celtics. He really enjoys Band, Math, and pe. He also enjoys food, especially food, especially junk food. In his free time he watches TV and plays video. The TV he watches is DC superhero stuff. The video games he plays on his switch are Mario and Sonic at the Olympic games, Super Smash Bros Ultimate, Just Dance, and Splatoon 3. He loves traveling and fun.

Akhash Baskar

Akhash Baskar is a Sixth grader on team marvel. He really loves sports. He is top three favorite sports are Tennis, Basketball, and track. Akash is a cool and kind guy. He will help anyone if they need help Akhash’s favorite subject is math and has a 4.0 gpa Lastly Akhash loves watching nba and his favorite team is the Boston Celtics bye.

Janhavi Saidanore

Janhavi Saidanore: Janhavi is an amazing dancer (got it from her mom btw), amazing student, and much more:) She is a 6th grader at Thomas Jefferson Middle School, and she is 11 years old. She loves building and making complex Legos for 20 year olds. And of course she is from Indian heritage but born in America. Both her parents are computer engineers, and she is very grateful for everything

Mya Yancey

Melody Schulte

Website management, Editing Committee, Athletic and Journalism Committee, Outreach Committee

Mya Yancey

Mya: Mya is a 7th grader on Patriot Pages. She likes art ,writing, volleyball, and plays the violin. She is a huge fan of all music except opera( got that from her mom btw ). She is a huge animal lover and wants to be a vet when she grows up, and will probably have about 50 dogs when she’s older.