Nina Sperling, Staff Reporter
Nina Sperling joined the Oracle as a staff reporter in 2021 . She is passionate about politics and has danced at Archer for three years and outside of Archer for nine years. She loves spending time with her family and friends, playing with her dog Georgie, traveling with her family, listening to ‘60s and ‘70s music, Motown, ‘90’s R&B and watching TV comedies.
![Junior Mia Ronn performs the poem, The World is About to End and My Grandparents are in Love, by Kara Jackson. I think [the poem] is so relevant and impactful. It feels like the news is constantly overwhelming our generation, Ronn said. With COVID we havent especially gotten the same sort of teenage experience and all of the things that we sort of hoped to experience. I think were in a place of wondering what our lives are going to look like.Ronn originally won the school contest of the Poetry Out Loud competition last year in December and has now advanced to nationals as one of the top nine finalists.](https://archeroracle.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/IMG-9751-1-900x675.jpg)
![Track and field team members Coco Takessian (28), Nissara Shah (28) and Mia Goldberg (28), get in their positions to start running in a track event at Brentwood School April 20. It is a really tiring sport, but I love the team so much, Farah Sandoval (28) said. We all were equally exhausted and worn out, so [the team] all had fun and joked about it after.](https://archeroracle.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/ms-tf-fi-900x600.jpg)
![Graduating seniors from the Oracle Staff, Sports Editor Gracie Doyle, Editor-in-Chief Vaughan Anoai and Features Editor Thea Leimone, show off their college spirit together. I think from here on, its only exciting things, Doyle said. We have a really, really fun end of the year. We get to participate in all these traditions. Then we have summer, which is always fun, and then freshman year [of college], which is so exciting and new. But Im really ready for the next chapter.](https://archeroracle.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/IMG_9940-900x600.jpg)
![Dance teacher Andrea Locke gives dancers notes after a run-though during a Night of Dance tech rehearsal. This year, Locke organized the Night of Dance to take place in the main courtyard at Archer, Feb. 23, 24 and 25. She chose the theme, Transformation, as an ode to the impact the pandemic had on people all around the world and the return to in-person life. No matter whats being created on stage, even what the intention might be, the audience [brings] another intention or another perspective or another kind of feeling that connects, Locke said.](https://archeroracle.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Locke-featured-image-900x600.jpg)
![Left: A view of colorful houses on a mountain in Vernazza, Cinque Terre, Italy. Right: A view of colorful buildings and grassland in Denmark. Copenhagen is a really amazing city to learn and [be in] as a student, because theres a lot of opportunities to get new perspectives on systems and ways of doing things, Madis Kennedy said. Then, being able to bring those those new, unique perspectives back to the U.S. felt like it would be really beneficial.](https://archeroracle.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/abroad-feature-featured-image-oracle-2-900x600.jpg)
![Archers varsity soccer team poses for a group picture before a game against Brentwood School. Its a fun mix of people for sure. [I like getting to know] people I dont usually get to know because theyre in different grades, Childers said. [One of my goals is] continuing to connect with the whole team and become a closer team.](https://archeroracle.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/8136F153-6C9F-46C5-93EE-6F4B68E02889-2-900x600.jpg)
