Upward Bound Broadcasting 2008 is Smashing

Alexandra Tisha Steiner, of Kamiah, Idaho, will be attending her junior year of high school at Kamiah High. This riley 16-year-0ld plays softball, loves music, friends, candy, and caffeine. She is a co-host of Reganomics, on KUOI 89.3 FM, and better known to her listeners as DJ Pink Panties. P.S. She's an underground rapper and beat-boxer in the radio legal ID scene.

Top 5 bands/artists:

1. Fall Out Boy

2. Paramore

3. Forever the Sickest Kids

4. We the Kings

5. Boys like Girls

Tiana M. Higgins is DJ 3 on her KUOI radio show Fema. She's 16 years old and attending Lakeside High School in Plummer, Idaho, where she'll be a Junior this fall. She loves art and music. Her favorite music genres are Rock and Metal and she would be very grumpy without them. She also loves to read books about vampires. Tiana wants to attend college in California, earn a degree in fashion design, and then start her line.

Top 4 bands/artists:

1. Avenged Sevenfold

2. Tokio Hotel

3. Blessthefall

4. 69 Eyes

Olivia Morales is DJ Notorious on KUOI's radio show Fema. She's 15 and will begin her sophomore year this fall at Orofino High School in Orofino, Idaho. She plays basketball and softball. She's interested in music and wants to study the subject in college and then work in the music business.

Top 3 bands/artists:

1. Bullet for My Valentine

2. As I Lay Dying

3. Paramore

Kersey Miller, AKA The Purple Care Bear, hails from Plummer, Idaho, and co-hosts Reganomics on KUOI 89.3 FM. He's 17 and entering his junior year at Lakeside High School. He's interested in jelly beans, and of course he has plans for the future.

Top 4 bands/artists:

1. Sublime

2. Bad Religion

3. NOFX

4. Anti-Flag

Mikala R. Briceno is known as DJ Shorty on her KUOI show, Bad Kids. She is 15 and begins her sophomore year this fall at Lapwai High School in Lapwai, Idaho. The youngest of three, her two older sisters have strongly influenced her character. She's also interested in the boys. She plays Volleyball, Softball and loves running and Boxing. After school activities include shopping, working out, and listening to music. Marked by her glamour, her interests also like in clothes, shoes and jewelry. She plans to attend college after high school in California or Seattle.

Top 4 bands/artists:

1. Trey Songz

2. Lil Wayne

3. E-40

4. Beyonce

Lacey Crane is known to KUOI listeners as DJ Devious on her radio show, Purple Peaches. Her hometown is Kamiah, Idaho, where she'll be attending Kamiah High school this fall, in her junior year. She's 16 and interested in swimming, reading and drawing. She plans to attend college after graduating from high school and wants to study beauty, psychiatry, or school counseling.

Top 3 bands/artists:

1. Edit

2. Nada Surf

3. Boys Like Girls