Smirti Bhandari is a sophomore  at John F. Kennedy Memorial High School. She is part of the Junior-Varsity Spirit Cheerleading team and is currently participating in the winter musical. Along with these, she is part of the key club and hopes to take part in more extracurricular activities in the future. This is her first year contributing to The Torch and she hopes to upload articles that will have some sort of impact on her readers. She chose to take journalism so she could write about all the things she enjoys and hopes to interview some of her peers at JFK. Outside of school, she enjoys painting and hanging out with friends.