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The Accolade
The Student News Site of Sunny Hills High School

The Accolade
The Student News Site of Sunny Hills High School

The Accolade
For the 2024 holiday season, most Americans plan to spend the same or less as in previous years, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers. At Sunny Hills, students also don't plan on increasing their budget this year because of higher prices.

FUN AT WHAT COST?: Students plan to spend less this holiday season because of higher prices

Justin Pak, Web Managing Editor • December 16, 2024

Two years ago during the holiday shopping season in December, then-sophomore David Tapia recalls walking into the Tokyo Japanese Lifestyle gift shop at the MainPlace Mall in Santa Ana. “I wanted to...

A Sunny Hills staff member dresses up as an elf and reads the Nov. 18, 2022, Accolade newspaper issue while sitting atop the roof of one of the campus buildings on Dec. 21, 2022.

DID YOU KNOW? Who ‘elf’ can be on that campus rooftop before winter holidays but … ?

Lauren Kang, Sports Editor • December 14, 2024

As a continuing feature, The Accolade delves into the origins of Sunny Hills culture or landmarks. This time, we take a look at the person who’s dressed as an elf and usually sitting on one of the campus...

Juniors Chloe Aeum (left) and Renee Reyes, who attends Philippine Science High School, pose with a cue stick at Oxford University’s terrace cafe on Tuesday, July 30, during the Oxford Summer Courses held from Sunday, July 21-Saturday, Aug. 3.

CHEERIO: Then-rising junior travels across the Atlantic to get Oxford college experience

Caroline Shin, Staff Reporter • December 1, 2024

As the fall semester nears its end this month and a new year begins next January, students and parents may consider summer options for the former to enhance educational opportunities, especially at the...

Class of 2015 alumnus Adrien Truong holds his phone displaying his Gradekit app at his home on Sunday, Nov. 3. Truong has been working on the app since 2014.

ALUMNI ARTICULATION: Class of 2015 graduate quits high-paying computer tech job to return to high school passion project

Kyuwon Han, Spotlight Team Reporter • November 19, 2024

The Accolade introduces a new feature that focuses on those who have graduated from Sunny Hills and how they are contributing to their community and beyond. In this first segment, Spotlight team reporter...

Freshman Florenzo Tenazas unlocks his e-bike after fifth period on Thursday, Nov. 7, between the 20s and 40s wings. Since the beginning of the 2024-2025 school year, more electric forms of transportation can be seen at the two bike racks on campus.

ELECTRIFYING TREND: More SH students riding e-bikes, e-scooters to get to school

Emily Kim, Staff Reporter • November 8, 2024

Faster than a speeding porker. More expensive than an iPhone 16. Able to travel 50 miles in a single charged battery pack. Look, down the road on Nicholas Street!  It can’t be a bird or...

To promote civic engagement, the Orange County Registrar of Voters has been setting up information booths like this one at the University of California, Irvine, on Thursday, Oct. 10. Those eligible to cast a ballot but haven't registered can still do so on Election Day Tuesday, Nov. 5, by visiting any voting center in the state.

GREAT EXPECTATIONS: More than half of seniors eligible to vote plan on casting their ballot before or by Election Day Tuesday, Nov. 5

Kyuwon Han, Spotlight Team Reporter • November 4, 2024

Jenna Forster’s mother had a hand in the senior’s voter registration process — literally. “My mom registered me to vote online. … Once it’s my birthday [Oct. 3], the system puts it through,...

The Democratic donkey and Republican elephant are two political symbols representing the approaching presidential election.

HISTORY IS ON THE LINE: SH students share thoughts on presidential election

Faith Jung, Spotlight Specialty Magazine Editor • October 26, 2024

The first woman of color to run for president in America. The second president in our nation since Grover Cleveland in 1893 to possibly serve two non-consecutive terms. No matter who comes out on top...

Senior Liv Chavez (second to right) receives her pink tiara upon the announcement of her homecoming queen title during the halftime of the Friday, Oct. 4, football game at the Buena Park High School stadium.

CROWNED TO INSPIRE: Q&A with 2024 homecoming queen Liv Chavez

Emily Kim, Staff Reporter • October 23, 2024

With the crowning of the 2024 homecoming queen, Accolade staff reporter Emily Kim conducted a Q&A with senior Liv Chavez to share her experience and motivations to achieve the title. Question: Why...

New science teacher Aaron Eide helps freshman Osama Ibrahim with opening his Chromebook to access his Biology exam during sixth period on Friday, Oct. 18.

NEW SCHOOL, NEW CHALLENGE: Ex-Troy science teacher aims to make biology fun with hands-on activities, labs

Yena Oh, Sports Editor • October 22, 2024

It was time for another challenge for new science teacher Aaron Eide. After working at Troy High School since the 2018-2019 school year and being assigned the Fullerton Joint Union High School District’s...

During fourth period, junior Melina Garcia (left) asks new English teacher Hannah Batchelor a question on Thursday, Sept. 5, in Room 33 about her Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Nature” reading assignment in her textbook. Batchelor, who has been using Room 11 second period and Room 33 during zero, third and fourth periods since the start of the fall semester, is scheduled to move into her own classroom in Room 154 on Thursday, Oct. 17, or Friday, Oct. 18.

NEWFOUND PASSION: Environmental scientist makes the switch to help youth as an English teacher, cross country head coach

Elise Pak, Staff Reporter • October 15, 2024

For new English teacher and cross country head coach Hannah Batchelor, her path toward joining the education profession took longer than usual – four years, in fact. Even though she grew up with family...

Assistant principal Betty Vutang (right) assists junior Jessica Choi with the student’s schedule-changing concerns in the Lyceum during the Tuesday, Aug. 6, Lancer Day registration.

BONJOUR: New Sunny Hills assistant principal — first Asian administrator here — and former French teacher aims to support struggling students

Justin Pak, Web Managing Editor • September 23, 2024

One school day, then-11th-grader Betty Vutang was walking down the halls of her high school in Vancouver, British Columbia, when she saw her English teacher walking up the stairs. In a moment of frustration,...

Senior Gunnar Okerlund uses his Associated Student Body Gold Card to get a free entrance to the Friday, Sept. 6, football game at the Buena Park High School stadium against the Woodrow Wilson Bruins.

DID YOU KNOW? Associated Student Body Gold Card sales continue to provide benefits for students and school since the 60’s

Irene Park, News Editor • September 19, 2024

DID YOU KNOW? As a continuing feature, The Accolade delves into the origins of Sunny Hills culture or landmarks. This time, we take a look at the Associated Student Body [ASB] Gold Card, how it got its...

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