This is one of a series of five-year, COVID-19 pandemic anniversary articles The Accolade’s Spotlight team has expanded from its original print version distributed to the campus on Monday, March 24. Three...

Look for more senior profiles in our May issue. Senior Jai Patel has been fascinated with engineering concepts since he was in sixth grade, playing with his building blocks. “Any time I build Legos,...

The National Merit Scholarship Corp. [NMSC] has something in common with Disneyland in Anaheim, McDonald’s and Guinness World Records. 1955. That’s the year each organization or franchise was...

Jason Hughes is the most recent addition to the campus supervisor team at Sunny Hills, increasing the total number to four. “My job is to keep everyone safe; that’s the primary goal,” Hughes said. Besides...

For most teens throughout the school year, Friday means stressing, piling up tests, finishing essays and racing to meet project deadlines. For others, it means the end of testing, a sign of relief and...

*Names of elementary school children have been changed for confidentiality. Sophomore Walfred Solis grew up with only his younger sister — a four-year age gap — prompting him to every so often wonder...

$100. That’s all senior Luke Lawrence spent to kickstart his passion with a hand-me-down camera from his older brother. Lawrence was 12 when received the Nikon Coolpix L340, starting his photography...

Ingredient 1: Lab research Ingredient 2: Science Olympiad Ingredient 3: National Honor Society [NHS] Ingredient 4: Charcuterie Theory Above are all the components needed to make up senior Sophia...

In this last issue of the 2024-2025 school year, The Accolade’s staff reporter and social media team member Emily Lee interviews senior Liam Weinreich on his experience as a student here with his father...

Sin²θ + cos²θ = 1. For those who’ve never taken pre-calculus (also known as trigonometry) before, this equation may lead many to scratch their heads and mutter to themselves, “What the …?” Meanwhile,...

12:54 p.m. Tuesday, April 15. It’s lunchtime at Sunny Hills. Some student motorists get in line to head for the west parking lot exit so they can spend as much of their 30 minutes to socialize while...