By Habeba Mostafa – The Signal –
Taking on the responsibility to ensure younger students in the Santa Clarita Valley don’t participate in vaping as they go into high school and beyond, Valencia High School’s LifeUnvaped club has visited most of the junior high schools in the SCV this past year to impart wisdom.
Starting out as a project, and later forming into a club in 2025, founders Arundhathi Jathin, 16, Karisa Zoe Flores, 16, Hudson Lee, 16, and Christian Lee, 17, created LifeUnvaped with the incentive of addressing nicotine addiction and encouraging younger students to engage in healthier choices in the long run.
At local junior high schools, such as Rancho Pico, Arroyo Seco and Placerita, the club members set up in each school’s quad and give presentations on nicotine addiction, brain development, peer pressure and the long-term effects of vaping — allowing the middle schoolers to ask candid questions in a comfortable space.
