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Senior Thomas Oltman (top left) stands with fellow exchange students and the group leader next to their plane from Chicago to Frankfurt on June 10.
Senior receives third gold medal for National German Exam, awarded free trip to Germany
Soojin Cho, Feature Editor • October 3, 2025

Despite identifying as a Hungarian-American, senior Thomas Oltman said this past summer transformed Germany into his home away from home.  During...

Junior Daniel Martinez holds onto his backpack in front of Room 138 on Thursday, Sept. 4.
Q&A LANCER LIFE: Daniel Martinez
Yena Oh, Entertainment Editor • September 26, 2025

In this first issue of the 2025-2025 school year, The Accolade’s co-Arts & Entertainment editor Yena Oh interviews junior Daniel Martinez...

Social science teacher Marcus Reveles holds up a paper assignment about world religions to explain to his students about how to answer the question during fourth period World History in Room 24 on Sept. 5.
LANCER LEGACY: Sunny Hills alumnus comes back on campus as a social science teacher
Kaylynn Park, Copy Editor • September 19, 2025

“You are absolutely capable of creating the life you can’t stop thinking about :)” That’s what students see on the back whiteboard...

New social science teacher Carlos Quezada lectures his freshmen students in fourth period Advanced Placement Human Geography class in Room 55 on Thursday, Sept. 4.
GROWING HIS FAMILIA: New social science teacher stitches together a new community on the hill
Nicole Park, Editor-in-Chief • September 18, 2025

When students walk into Room 55, they are greeted with walls that come alive with hundreds of faces staring back. From 20th-century activists...

Senior Jasper Hanrahan sits next to his displayed painting at his Downtown Fullerton art gallery on Friday, Aug. 29, a day before the grand opening.
A splash of color
Aashna Dialani, Web Editor-in-Chief • September 17, 2025
Senior Welcy Calderon (left), 3D design teacher Chablis Bates senior Ashley Cal and junior Evan Lee hold their Labubus on Friday, Sept. 5.
EYE SPY: Labubu dolls pop up around campus
Emily Kim, Sports Editor • September 11, 2025
Then-seniors Isabella Reyes (left), Hannah Saab, Lucas Saab and Malekai Yun assemble their community service projects in the workshop in Room 301 on Friday, Nov. 22, during zero period.
Sunny Hills’ version of a ‘Santa’s’ workshop
Yena Oh, Entertainment Editor • August 19, 2025
Learning loss — myth or fact?
Learning loss — myth or fact?
Katelyn Ahn, Business Manager & Spotlight Team Reporter • July 2, 2025
Then-seniors and Mr. Sunny Hills nominees Akashi Rai (left), Carlos Serrano and Jimmy Barajas stand up on Oct. 19, 2018 in their second period class with a balloon and paper crown as nominees for the Mr. Sunny Hills pageant show.
Lost traditions post-COVID-19 pandemic
Ellen Hwang, Sports Editor • June 21, 2025
Senior Jai Patel holds open the 310-page book he had co-authored during his 2024 Boeing summer internship. Statistical Programming Essentials: R & Python is available for purchase on Amazon for $22.99.
Engineering a new book
Nathan Lee, Layout Editor • June 12, 2025
The four National Merit semi-finalists for the 2024-2025 school year were announced in the Sunny Hills GOLD Standard Newsletter on Friday, Sept. 20.
7 decades of honoring the brightest
Philip Cho, Cub Reporter • June 5, 2025
New campus supervisor Jason Hughes (right) demonstrates how he would listen to supervisor liaison Randall Avalos’s walkie-talkie message in the hallway near the 10s wing on Friday, April 11.
Latest addition to campus supervisor team a familiar face
Alice Chae, Social Media Team & Staff Reporter • June 4, 2025
Senior Lucas Saab (left) and junior Jake Sueki point at their flip flops in front of Room 138 on Wednesday, March 26, during lunch.
Flip Flop Fridays
Bradyn Chiang, Data Team • May 29, 2025
The Big Brothers Big Sisters of Orange County offers high school students a chance to serve as mentors to local elementary school children. Because of confidentiality issues, the organization cannot share images of the youth whom Sunny Hills students worked with. Instead, it provided the following stock image of Tustin High School mentors standing outside of a campus in 2019.
Helping the next generation ‘achieve milestones’
Leona Ji, Cub Reporter • May 28, 2025
Senior Luke Lawrence walks around Angel Stadium in Anaheim during the March 29, 2024, Fullerton vs. Troy baseball game.
Ready, set, click
Alice Chae, Social Media Team & Staff Reporter • May 18, 2025
Senior Sophia Kiker crafts a spring- themed charcuterie board for a pre-prom party order on April 23, 2024, for her business.
Berkeley-bound senior operates charcuterie business amid balancing grades, extracurriculars
Mina Imai, Copy Editor • May 18, 2025
Senior Liam Weinreich talks about his high school career with his father as principal.
Q&A WITH A LANCER: Liam Weinreich
Emily Lee, Social Media Team & Staff Reporter • May 14, 2025
Members of the Mock Trial club gather to celebrate after their inaugural tournament season on Tuesday, Nov. 19, inside the Superior Court of California, County of Orange.
CLUB CORNER: Mock Trial back in session
Tatiana Galvez, Business Team & Staff Reporter • May 11, 2025
Senior Ethan Hsu (right) points at the laptop screen of junior Julia Kim (center) in his attempt to tutor her after school at the Algebra Center on Thursday, March 6, in Room 45. Also helping Kim is senior Sarah Patino.
Sine, cosine, tangent
Caleb Kang, Data Team • May 9, 2025
Andrew Guevara (left), playing with Kellie Ma, swings his paddle to hit the pickleball on Tuesday, Feb. 25, on the tennis courts.
Picking up pickleball
Kaylee Won, Cub Reporter • May 5, 2025
Class of 1973 alumnus and former Spanish teacher Gene Bordy looks Wednesday, April 23, in Room 138 at the Pilgrim Tours website featuring his dream trip to the Holy Land of Israel. Bordy has been unable to go on his scheduled tour the past two years because of the Israeli-Hamas conflict as well as several airlines’ decision to no longer offer flights to that part of the Middle East.
ALUMNI ARTICULATION: Dream trip to Israel turned nightmare
Amy Lim, Staff Reporter • May 1, 2025
Seniors Amanda Laurie Pascual (right) and Mohamad Ibrahim walk with their crowns and sashes after they were announced as prom queen and king, respectively, at the Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodal Center on Saturday, April 5.
PROM QUEEN Q&A: Amanda Laurie Pascual reflects on her unexpected win
Emily Kim, Sports Editor • April 22, 2025
Seniors Mohamad Ibrahim (right) and Amanda Laurie Pascual showcase their sashes and crown for winning prom king and queen, respectively, on the staircase of the Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodal Center on Saturday, April 5.
PROM KING Q&A: Mohamad Ibrahim relives his crowning and senior memories
Kyuwon Han, Opinion Editor • April 21, 2025
Sophomore Bright Jun picks up his McDonald’s online order from Room 7, the attendance office, on Wednesday, Oct. 9, during lunch.
DOOR DASHERS: More students opt for food delivery during lunch than settling for ‘gross,’ free school meals
Elise Pak, Opinion Editor • April 11, 2025
Since the March 2020 lockdown because of the COVID-19 pandemic, terms like “test-blind” or “test-optional” for SAT and ACT have begun appearing in the college admissions process to adapt to the circumstances of being unable to take the exams in person. Test-blind refers to colleges not accepting or considering standardized exam scores.
VIRAL IMPACT ON SAT, ACT: Pandemic spurs ‘test-optional,’ ‘test-blind’ trend in college admissions
Kyuwon Han, Opinion Editor • April 3, 2025
Author of Party School Jonathan Hart shares his experience writing and publishing the novel during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Q&A: Party School author reviews experience as a writer during COVID-19
Ashley Kang, News Editor • April 1, 2025
After switching to colored magazines at the beginning of the 2023-2024 school year, The Accolade has produced three issues as of Tuesday, April 1. Students share their reactions to the costs and effort required to plan and publish each magazine.
DID YOU KNOW? Cost of one Accolade 32-page magazine same as a McDonald’s Mini McFlurry
Alice Chae, Social Media Team & Staff Reporter • April 1, 2025
Looking back on the past five years, teachers and students reflect on how the world has changed while going through both the stages of a global pandemic to a recovery, to where we are now.
5 YEARS LATER: A look back at what we have learned from the COVID-19 pandemic
Angelina Jeong, Spotlight Specialty Magazine Editor • March 25, 2025
Oxford University Press, which named "brain rot" its Word of the Year, created this design on its website with words in the background relating to the other runner-up terms that are included in the shortlist.
Brain rot’s the sigma – earns 2024 Word of the Year honor from Oxford English Dictionary
Irene Park, Editor-in-Chief • March 11, 2025
Two students from December 2016 decorate parts of the quad before the start of first period on the Monday of final exam week. This rite of passage that disappeared before COVID-19 hit in March 2020 should return to campus.
STAFF EDITORIAL: 5 years after the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s time to bring back some forgotten traditions
The Accolade Editorial Board • March 11, 2025
New campus supervisor Jennifer Davila (right) guides sophomore Andrew Loyola through the 5-Star app on Tuesday, Jan. 7, outside the 30s wing. Loyola asked what would happen if the timer for the bathroom pass ran out.
What does new campus supervisor and Jiminy Cricket have in common?
Soojin Cho, Feature Editor • March 3, 2025
The Accolade staff of 1997 work in Room 15 for its upcoming issue. Before the staff had its home in Room 138 in 1999, the majority of the work would be done in the computer lab in the 10s wing.
DID YOU KNOW? The Accolade’s name stems from connection with school’s mascot
Alexxa Berumen, Editor-in-Chief • February 25, 2025
Then-sophomore Nate Barksdale (front row, second from left) holds the ACCOLADE ST sign in the newspaper staff photo that appears in the 1991-1992 yearbook. Unbeknownst to Barksdale, he would eventually ignite an Accolade staff yearbook photo tradition that would last nearly a decade.
DID YOU ALSO KNOW? The Accolade once had its own street sign — why and where is it now?
Alice Chae, Social Media Team & Staff Reporter • February 20, 2025
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