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The Accolade

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The Accolade

The Student News Site of Sunny Hills High School

The Accolade

Ashley Kang

Ashley Kang, Business Manager & Spotlight Team Reporter

After taking Journalism 1 in her freshman year, sophomore Ashley Kang looks forward to being a business manager and Spotlight team reporter on the 2024-2025 Accolade staff. Through her time in The Accolade, Kang hopes to improve her writing abilities and learn more about the world of journalism.

Aside from being part of The Accolade, Kang is involved in many school clubs and is on the tennis and track and field teams. In her free time, she loves listening to music and hanging out with her friends.

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The email California state governor Taylor Regen sent to Junior State of America [JSA] chapter presidents on Friday, Aug. 2, to inform them of the discontinuation of the organization and development of its successor, Civic Leaders of America.

Junior State of America — its headquarters and clubs — shuts down after nearly a century of service to students

Ashley Kang, Business Manager & Spotlight Team Reporter November 20, 2024

Seven-time Super Bowl champion Tom Brady. Former Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti. Businessman Charles R. Schwab. These are only three of the many notable alumni who reportedly participated in...

Episode 7: LET’S GO CLUBBING — Euphoria RnB

Ellen Hwang and Ashley Kang November 15, 2024

https://open.spotify.com/episode/1MDsO6RXIfmvELQ03pepTn Song: Onion by Lukrembo (https://freetouse.com/music/lukrembo/onion)

An excerpt of the Google Doc that social science teacher Hera Kwon posted Thursday, Sept. 19, in her Google Classroom for students in her four American Government classes. Capped at 400 volunteers, eligible students gets excused on Election Day to help out at an Orange County voting center and receive a $120 stipend afterward.

ENCOURAGING ENGAGEMENT: New High School Student Volunteer Program provides an opportunity to volunteer at the 2024 presidential Election

Ashley Kang, Business Manager & Spotlight Team Reporter November 1, 2024

One hundred and twenty dollars. That amount can cover a year’s subscription to a Netflix account with ads with some change left over. And that stipend from the Orange County Registrar of Voters...

Girls flag football coach Dylan Kuhn gives a pep talk to his three quarterbacks, freshman Soliao Arredondo (left), junior Samantha Apolinar and sophomore Amelia Herbert, on the field during lunch before their Wednesday, Sept. 11, game against Troy High School.

WILL IT ALL ADD UP?: Despite a lack of experience in the sport, math teacher volunteers to guide inaugural season of girls flag football team

Ashley Kang, Business Manager & Spotlight Team Reporter September 21, 2024

New girls flag football coach Dylan Kuhn has been an NFL fan since childhood.  While he had spent most of his childhood playing baseball, the SH baseball team's assistant coach said he had a fond spot...

Sophomore Ashley Kang emphasizes the importance of traditional paper learning methods in a world where online learning is gaining more popularity.

COLUMN: Keep it classic — paper learning must become more prominent in education

Ashley Kang, Business Manager & Spotlight Team Reporter September 17, 2024

Workbook open. Pink eraser shavings scattered across the dining table. Pencil in hand.  From the summer before second grade to now, my parents always stressed the importance of working with paper. Having...

With the potential passing of Senate Bill 976, teenagers will be able to find their way out of the social media-centered rabbit hole, leading to a more wholesome mental state.

Introduction of new state bill may lower social media addiction for teens

Ashley Kang, Business Manager & Spotlight Team Reporter June 3, 2024

Talks of social media restrictions for adolescents are nothing new in today’s society. From Florida’s Online Protections for Minors bill and the Utah Social Media Regulation Act, the recent influx...

Senior Binny Park's self-published book contains 46 poems collected from 2020-2023. Poems over topics ranging from her daily life to art and has sold 21 copies.

Poet collects insights for debut book, Preserved In Pavement

Ashley Kang, Business Manager & Spotlight Team Reporter May 22, 2024

Having journaled since first grade, writing has always been an important part of senior Binny Park’s life. “Because my parents both work, writing was that outlet for me to talk,” Park said. “In...

Black Student Union [BSU] president freshman Ava Brown (center) takes a selfie with her older sister, junior Marli Brown (right) during the 25th annual Black College Expo at the Los Angeles Convention Center on Saturday, Feb. 10. The two went there to learn more about the history of these institutions.

CLUB CORNER: Black Student Union returns to campus; aims to educate students on African-American history

Ashley Kang, Business Manager & Spotlight Team Reporter March 27, 2024

First Black American to host a television show, Nat King Cole. First Black person to win an Oscar, Hattie McDaniel. First Black teenager to refuse to give up her seat on a bus, 15-year-old Claudette...

Troy High School’s Creatives Social Change club packaged Period Care Boxes, which includes various menstrual items, with club members on Thursday, Sept. 14. Sunny Hills’ chapter will be taking 20 of the 40 Period Care Boxes made at the upcoming collaboration event on Thursday, Jan. 25, to distribute on campus.

CLUB CORNER: Junior seeks more activism among peers in establishing Creatives for Social Change

Ashley Kang, Business Manager & Spotlight Team Reporter January 18, 2024

For the 2023-2024 school year, the Associated Student Body has approved 29 new clubs. The Accolade’s cub reporters from the beginning journalism class will report on each new group in alphabetical order....

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