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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

The new small electronic sign board, also known as a mini-tron, stands at the entrance of the west parking lot. For nearly a week since the start of the 2024-2025 school year, visitors to that part of the campus only saw the stem without the sign and LED boards after the old marquee got removed over the summer.

SCREEN TIME UPDATES: Jumbotron, meet minitron

Alice Chae, Social Media Team & Staff Reporter February 20, 2025

This is the second of a three-part series on the additional changes to Sunny Hills facilities over the summer and during the 2024-2025 school year. These updates follow the larger makeover that started...

Installed in February 2017, the jumbotron has been prone to malfunction lately, as in this case, last May.

BIG SCREEN NEEDS BIG UPDATE: School officials take steps to replace 8-year-old jumbotron with a more advanced model

Kevin Lee, Assistant News Editor February 18, 2025

With a nearly decade-old jumbotron that has been prone to break down in recent years, school officials plan to replace it with a more modern and reliable one – though the cost has not been determined. “The...

World Language teacher Esther Lee (left) helps junior William Kim with writing his journal project in Room 15 on Wednesday, Feb. 5, in his Korean 3 class. For the 2025-2026 school year, an honors option will be offered.

HONORABLE OPTIONS: Returning students can choose more rigorous classes

Ashley Kang, Business Manager & Spotlight Team Reporter February 13, 2025

Students returning for the 2025-2026 school year will have five new courses to consider signing up for, two offering honors designations. Over the past two years, Regional Occupational Program [ROP]...

Firefighters combat the fires as winds continue to swell, facing the Palisades Fire along the iconic Malibu Pacific Coast highway on Tuesday, Jan. 7.

NEWS ANALYSIS: Be prepared — fire storms can happen in Fullerton or anywhere

Irene Park, News Editor February 12, 2025

Few in Los Angeles County will forget what happened on Tuesday, Jan. 7. It all started with over 80 mph Santa Ana winds, which the National Weather Service had warned would start swirling through Southern...

The Columbia Scholastic Press Association posted on its Instagram (@cspanyc) to announce Tommy Li as one of the special recognition advisers as part of the 2025 National High School Journalism Teacher of the Year Program on Friday, Feb. 7.

Accolade adviser becomes first SH instructor to earn recognition from national journalism organization

Caroline Shin, Staff Reporter February 11, 2025

Accolade adviser Tommy Li was recognized Friday, Feb. 7, as a finalist in a national journalism organization’s Teacher of the Year award – a first for any Sunny Hills instructor.  “It gives me...

Latinx club member senior Sarah Patino spreads out her skirt while performing the Jalisco dance in the quad on Wednesday, Jan. 15. Patino will be among seven cultural clubs performing in the gym for the first time in front of parents and others on the eve of the Friday, Feb. 7, International Week assembly.

For first time, International Week assembly dress rehearsal to become evening performance for parents on Thursday, Feb. 6

Elise Pak, Staff Reporter February 5, 2025

For the first time, students showcasing their cultures in the annual International Week assembly in the gym will perform in the same building in front of a paying audience the night before on Thursday,...

California Senate Bill 976, which was passed Friday, Sept. 23, aims to prohibit internet service and applications from providing addictive feeds to minors and bans companies from sending notifications to minors at certain times.

LAW & ORDER: New state bill to protect minors from ‘addicting’ social media content, notifications at certain times

Kevin Lee, Assistant News Editor February 3, 2025

“Law & Order” explores passed bills relevant to teachers and students. What impact will these decisions have on the school? California Gov. Gavin Newsom passed into law Senate Bill [SB] 976,...

An artist’s interpretation of what happens if a minor tries to access certain types of Instagram content, which gets filtered by those operating the social media platform to protect underage teens from negative online behavior such as child grooming and cyberbullying. Besides this, Instagram has come up with five new policies that limit teens’ exposure to unknown accounts.

Instagram introduces stricter restrictions on teen accounts to enhance privacy and safety

Yena Oh, Sports Editor January 27, 2025

On Nov. 8, 2022, 21-year-old Michael Watson Jr. was arrested for his involvement in 13 rapes, four of which were minors, allegedly threatening his victims, who he met via Instagram, to post nude images...

U.S. News & World Report ranks Sunny Hills nearly 200 spots higher than previous year with campus breaking into Top 800 schools nationwide

Kevin Lee, Assistant News Editor January 16, 2025

Honors level classes. Advanced Placement [AP] courses. International Baccalaureate [IB] pathway.  These are among the options Sunny Hills offers its students who seek rigorous, academic assignments...

Senior Sebastien Roque shows an eighth-grade visitor how to use the racing simulator during the Parks Junior High preview day on Friday, Jan. 10, in the gym.

ROP auto tech students rev up their presentations to visiting Parks eighth-graders during their Friday, Jan. 10, visit

Serenity Li, Copy Editor January 11, 2025

A racing simulator. Spark plug challenges. And go-kart and minibike showcases. Those were among the features that the Regional Occupation Program’s [ROP] auto tech class presented to welcome eighth-graders...

Students pass by the new auto tech program sign – created by then-senior Cali Watson – that features two car pistons in the shape of an “X” above a black rectangular sign with the text “Sunny Hills High School” on top of “Automotive Laboratory.” A car outlined in gold splits the words “Automotive” and “Laboratory” while the ROP [Regional Occupational Program] logo rounds out the design at the bottom.

SUMMER MAKEOVER THE SEQUEL: Program logos return to exterior building walls after they got painted over in 2023

Alice Chae, Social Media Team & Staff Reporter January 9, 2025

This is the first of a three-part series on the additional changes to Sunny Hills facilities over the summer and during the 2024-2025 school year. These updates follow the larger makeover that started...

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