Name: Chris Leon
Aliases: Topher
Occupation: Attorney
Hometown: Orlando, FL
Favorite moment at Page 15: Snack time of course!
Interests outside of Page 15: Family/Friends, Creativity, and a solid Farmers Market
Favorite thing about living in Orlando: The Sunshine!
Favorite book: Anything but Mark Twain
List two truths and one lie: I don't believe in leap year. A birthday once every four years is simply unacceptable. I am proud to admit I have cable tv. I am vegan.
How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? Enough
Name: Joni Fletcher
Aliases: ??
Occupation: UCF Student
Hometown: Coral Springs, FL
Favorite moment at Page 15: My favorite moment at Pg.15 was when I was able to volunteer with members from my organization, The UCF chapter of the National Association of Black Journalists!
Interests outside of Page 15: I enjoy writing, reading, listening to music, shopping and hanging out with friends!
Favorite thing about living in Orlando: My favorite thing about living in Orlando is being so close to the theme parks and other fun tourist attractions
Favorite book: I don't have a favorite book, but I love reading gossip magazines in my spare time
List two truths and one lie: My favorite color is Pink, I've performed on stage with Beyonce and I dream of living in New York City!
How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? Not sure? lol
Name: Steve Brown
Aliases: "Beardy", Steve Nash
Occupation: UCF Student (Elementary Education)
Hometown: Lebanon, Pennsylvania
Favorite moment at Page 15: Watching the kids utilize their imaginations in their writing assignments. Who wouldn't want to read a story about an eight foot tall squirrel that loves pizza and lives in a treehouse?
Interests outside of Page 15: Traveling the country via motorcycle, eating as many burritos as possible, drawing goofy pictures, and dangling objects in front of my cats.
Favorite thing about living in Orlando: The warm climate is pretty rad. In my home state of Pennsylvania, wintertime typically means shoveling snow, going to bed early, and serious cases of cabin fever. Now, instead of shoveling snow in February, I'm wearing shorts and eating snow cones.
Favorite book: The Book of Basketball, by Bill Simmons
List two truths and one lie: Shaquille O'Neal once encouraged me to get tattoos similar to his own, I caught Dwight Howard "planking" on the roof of my truck, and I keep a life-size cardboard likeness of Michael Jordan in my living room.
How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? What kind of incentive is there for this woodchuck to complete the task? Is he/she being paid commission or by the hour? If I guess an amount, do I have a chance of winning a prize a la "Price is Right"? If so, I'd say about 23 pounds of wood.
Name: Brent Hooper
Aliases: None
Occupation: UCF Student
Hometown: Orlando, FL
Favorite moment at Page 15: Discovering that skills we take for granted as adults can seem like superpowers to kids. Also, chess with Sam and Phil.
Interests outside of Page 15: PC gaming, nature photography, hiking, science and fantasy fiction, psychology, philosophy, tea.
Favorite thing about living in Orlando: Our amazing public library system that mails books to my doorstep for free.
Favorite book: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, by Haruki Murakami
List two truths and one lie: Our Milky Way galaxy will merge with Andromeda, waterbears are man-eating predators, and Theodore Roosevelt continued a speech for 90 minutes after being shot in the chest.
How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? Woodchucks (groundhogs) could probably chuck twigs, but they have better reason to chuck dirt for the construction and maintenance of their burrows.
Name: Amelia Klug
Aliases: Lyrical Genius, for those who know of my awesome songwriting abilities…
Occupation: Public Administration student at UCF minoring in Non-Profit Management and Education
Hometown: Gulf Breeze, FL
Favorite moment at Page 15: I love helping the kids with the daily writing prompts and hearing the ideas that come out of the kid’s heads. They have the greatest imaginations!
Interests outside of Page 15: I love Give Kids The World, painting, being goofy and ridiculous, my sorority Kappa Kappa Gamma, and working for VolunteerUCF. I’m also obsessed with everything Disney and am probably one of the biggest Coldplay fans you will ever meet!
Favorite thing about living in Orlando: We’re home to the most magical place on Earth!
Favorite book: The Harry Potter series and The Secret Life of Bees
List two truths and one lie: I’m kind of a closet hipster, I wish I had a pet sea otter, and I’m allergic to carpet
How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? As much wood as it will take for everyone to just stop questioning all of his chucking already…
Name: Aubrey Kuperman
Aliases: I could tell you, but well, you know what I'd have to do...
Occupation: Reader. Oops, I mean, student.
Hometown: Naples, FL
Favorite moment at Page 15: Call me crazy, but I love that moment when a kid that I've worked with for a while comes in, sits down at my table, and tells me, "No! I don't need your help today." They're nice enough to let me check it when they're done, but I love when they become independent in the homework room!
Interests outside of Page 15: Going to concerts, hockey games, local trivia nights, and reading entirely too many books.
Favorite thing about living in Orlando: All of the concerts!
Favorite book: Cutting for Stone
List two truths and one lie: I had a dog named after a Rod Stewart song, I rowed competitively for three years, and I've been an avid hockey fan for ten years.
How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? Enough to make it up-chuck!
Name: Hailee Mertz
Aliases: Grooveshark
Occupation: Public Ally at Second Harvest Food Bank
Hometown: Orlando, FL
Favorite moment at Page 15: When Mikey beat Mr. Phil at a game of chess last year!
Interests outside of Page 15: Music!
Favorite thing about living in Orlando: I'm close to friends.
Favorite book: Ender's Game
List two truths and one lie: Two truths and one lie
How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? It depends, is he self-employed? How stable is the current market for wood? Does he have other skills or interests? This question is much too complicated
Name: Hayley Cavataro
Aliases: Occasionally known in the Homework Room as Bailey or Haley Joel Osment.
Occupation: Full time student at UCF
Hometown: Palm Beach Gardens, Florida
Favorite moment at Page 15: I interned during the summer, and loved every Friday when the campers got to see their stories bound into books.
Interests outside of Page 15: Feminism, writing, magnets.
Favorite thing about living in Orlando: Lounging at Lake Eola.
Favorite book: The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Kundera
List two truths and one lie: I often get mistaken for a student in the Homework Room, I have an extensive collection of cardigans, I have a pit bull named Charmander.
How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? A woodchuck would chummily chuck all the wood into chunks, providing it could and would chuck wood.
Name: Malik Moss
Aliases: Rocket Man
Occupation: Student (UCF)
Hometown: Anchorage, Alaska
Favorite moment at Page 15: Talking to the kids...they've taught me a lot.
Interests outside of Page 15: Interning for art museums.
Favorite thing about living in Orlando: Great concerts.
Favorite book: Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
List two truths and one lie: I can say the ABC's backwards. I can back-flip on a trampoline. I've been chased by a moose
How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? Not enough.
Name: Vivianne Peckham
Aliases: None
Occupation: Graduate student, artist
Hometown: Tucson, Arizona -- lots of sand, snakes and spiders!
Favorite moment at Page 15: When the students start showing up every afternoon. :)
Interests outside of Page 15: Exploring Florida on road trips, taking pictures with my new camera.
Favorite thing about living in Orlando: My neighborhood lake: there's so much animal activity going on around and in it!
Favorite book: Miss Twiggley's Tree by Dorothea Warren Fox
List two truths and one lie: Adventure is a form of happiness. A hippopotamus can open its mouth 150 degrees; that's a VERY obtuse angle! Chocolate is bad for you.
How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? Like lions, most animals are lazy if they can get away with it. So, no wood chucking.
