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Miami Palmetto High School rising senior Emilia Haus recently won Most Outstanding Junior Newspaper Student at the end-of-the-year underclassmen awards ceremony.
She was chosen as the top newspaper student by the newspaper sponsor based on her participation in the newspaper class.
Haus writes for the paper, and she was senior multi-media editor, which included photo and videos. She is the senior photo editor for her senior year and will oversee the photographers.
She’s been taking pictures since ninth grade but became serious when she became a newspaper photographer in tenth grade.
“I really love the storytelling aspect of it,” she says. “Even the way you frame the angle of the camera can change the meaning. I love to take pictures of my friends and capture these amazing memories.”
Best of all, she loves seeing people be happy with the photos of themselves and the way they are being photographed.
Haus even has different cameras for different uses.
“For school and sports, I use the newspaper camera,” she says. “For taking pictures, I use my Nikon.”
She also likes taking pictures with an early digital camera from the early 2000s and a camcorder from the early 2000s.
In fact, she wants to major in digital media and communications in college.
“I would like to get involved in film and photography,” she says.
Currently she’s considering applying to the University of Miami, the University of Florida, Florida State, UCLA and New York University.
This summer, she has been teaching youngsters how to dance. She’s been dancing ballet since she was three but recently started doing flamenco.
Haus is good enough that she qualified for a summer dance intensive at the Dance Theater of Harlem and the Joffre Ballet. She chose to go to the Dance Theater of Harlem for the three-week intensive.
During the summer she is once again working with the kids at the dance summer camp. She’s currently dancing at the Armour Dance Theater but used to go to the Pinecrest Dance project.
“I loved it a lot,” she says. “They are all really sweet. It’s a lot working 8-4 five days a week with kids 4-12 years old. I loved being with the campers, interacting with them and teaching them things.”
The summer of her freshman year she volunteered for Shake-a-Leg Miami.
“I was part of their social media team,” she says. “I helped make content.”
She also helped with the kids.
“I had to make sure everyone had their life vests on and take a lot of pictures and promote the camp on Instagram, Tik Tok and Twitter (now X),” she says. “It taught me a lot about being responsible, in the sense of being in charge of other people, even though I was not much older than the older campers.”
Being a volunteer there also taught her patience with the kids and it taught her how to make social media content in a professional sense.
At school, Haus is a member of the National Honor Society, a member of the class cabinet, a member of the Spanish National Honor Society, and the historian of the Debate Club.
Last year, she was able to meet Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson when she was honored by the Palmetto Alumni Association. That meeting helped recruit new members to the club.
“I think a lot of people were interested in meeting her,” Haus says. “It made them realize we had a club.”
Brown Jackson requested to meet with the debate club.
“We were able to meet with her and ask her questions,” she says. “It was really a surreal experience.”
Linda Rodriguez Bernfeld
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