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ALWAYS ENTERTAINING Dance Company opens the signing ceremony with a routine, following our marching band’s performance just seconds before.
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OUT OF STATE EXPERIENCE, IN STATE TUITION Kevin Mata signs with Oregon State University. Go Beavers!
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PARTING WAYS Seniors Connor Ruckman and Kevin Mata may be going to different schools, but their friendship keeps them bound!
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CALI-GRICULTURE Leena Gonzales signs with Cal Poly Pomona. Go Broncos!
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NATURAL HABITAT Senior Ethan Lew signs with ArtCenter College of Design. Go Dots!
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NORCAL SOCIOLOGIST Eden Kim signs with UC Davis. Go Aggies!
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OFF TO THE FIGHT Editor-in-chief Olamide Olumide commits to University of Southern California. Fight on!
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THE BIG APPLE Melissa Ocegueda commits to New York University. Go Violets!
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UNIVERSITY WITH A SIDE OF BEACH Connor Ruckman signs off to UCSD. Go Tritons!
Van Nuys students sign cameras and announce college commitments during annual signing day event
May 28, 2026
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about the contributor
Aidyn Kinchen, Online Editor-in-Chief
Aidyn Kinchen, a senior, is a multifaceted member of The Mirror leadership team, the award-winning student newspaper and website at Van Nuys High School in Los Angeles. He is in his second year as an Online Editor-in-Chief, as well as a producer and cameraman for Real Humans, and tends to be a frequent competition writer. He has won five awards through journalism so far at the local, state and national levels and hopes to continue this forward momentum. Outside of journalism, he’s one of two student leaders in the Digital Media department, coming off a year of one of the best news shows the school has seen to date and awarded with the honor of third-best broadcast news in the state through the Southern California Journalism Education Association. With graduation brightly looming, he hopes to study film/television and broadcast journalism at any of the top film schools in the country. In his leisure time, he enjoys making custom beaded bracelets and listening to as many genres of music as there are stars in the sky.