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Serenity Li

Serenity Li, Copy Editor

Fresh with knowledge from the Journalism 1 class, junior Serenity Li is excited for her first year on staff at The Accolade for the 2024-2025 school year. Li hopes to use her skills as a copy editor to improve the quality of the newsmagazine issues as well as The Accolade’s online stories.

Li is taking several honors and Advanced Placement classes in her junior year. She enjoys studying different languages such as Mandarin Chinese, American Sign Language and Dutch.

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From ‘Bye Bye Birdie’ to ‘Hello Dolly’? What awaits for younger Van Hook sophomore

Serenity Li, Copy Editor • November 16, 2024

This is the last of a three-part series that focuses on siblings Caleb (a senior) and Kensington (a sophomore) Van Hook and their vast experience performing in live musical and theatrical productions nationwide...

Senior Caleb Van Hook's character (center) sits on a chair while reading the newspaper in the comedy-musical “Bye Bye Birdie” at Hope International University on Sunday, Nov. 10. Van Hook plans to continue to act on stage when he graduates from Sunny Hills.

[Photo] Senior Caleb Van Hook on getting hooked onto the stage

November 14, 2024

Senior Caleb Van Hook's character (center) sits on a chair while reading the newspaper in the comedy-musical “Bye Bye Birdie” at Hope International University on Sunday, Nov. 10. Van Hook plans to...

Senior Caleb Van Hook's character (center) sits on a chair while reading the newspaper in the comedy-musical “Bye Bye Birdie” at Hope International University on Sunday, Nov. 10. Van Hook plans to continue to act on stage when he graduates from Sunny Hills.

Senior Caleb Van Hook on getting hooked onto the stage

Serenity Li, Copy Editor • November 14, 2024

This is the second of a three-part series that focuses on siblings Caleb (a senior) and Kensington (a sophomore) Van Hook and their vast experience performing in live musical and theatrical productions...

Senior Caleb Van Hook (center) and to his left, his younger sister -- sophomore Kensie -- along with two other "Bye Bye Birdie" cast members sing "Hymn for a Sunday Evening" Sunday, Nov. 10, at Hope International University in Fullerton. The Van Hooks and their cast mates will perform in the same comedy-musical again this weekend on Friday, Nov. 15, and Saturday, Nov. 16, at the same venue.

All the world’s a stage — and the Van Hook siblings are the actors (and singers and dancers)

Serenity Li, Copy Editor • November 13, 2024

This is the first of a three-part series that focuses on siblings Caleb (a senior) and Kensington (a sophomore) Van Hook and their vast experience performing in live musical and theatrical productions...

Cecelia Bartin celebrates onstage after receiving the majority of the votes to win the title of Governor in Apple TV+ documentary “Girls State.”

Q&A: Three from ‘Girls State’ cast’s thoughts on presidential election

Serenity Li, Copy Editor • October 22, 2024

Released last semester on Apple TV+, “Girls State” focuses on select moments from an annual event of the same name held in Missouri for young ladies in high school. It follows five girls and their...

Goalie freshman Thomas Rovira throws the ball to a teammate during a Thursday, Aug. 29, home game against Segerstrom at the Sunny Hills pool.

BOYS WATER POLO PREVIEW: Lancers plan to take advantage of practices and offseason matches to prepare for the Century Conference

Serenity Li, Copy Editor • October 1, 2024

Coaches: Jordan Jaime (head coach), Sergio Dorrego (assistant coach), Andrea Lantz (assistant coach) Top Returners: Kastuv Aryal (12), Dante Gelles (11), Chase Lee (12), Evan Sereg (12) Top Newcomers:...

Moses, the Hebrew prophet from the Bible’s Book of Exodus, is attributed with the introduction of God’s Ten Commandments. Louisiana’s governor over the summer signed into law that every public school classroom in his state must display those moral laws starting next January 2025.

Thou shalt not push the Ten Commandments or the Bible upon students in public school classrooms in the South

Serenity Li, Copy Editor • September 23, 2024

Starting Jan. 1, 2025, every public school classroom in Louisiana must display a poster of the Ten Commandments. Just northwest in Oklahoma, the state superintendent has mandated that at the start of the...

Episode 1: HOW MARVEL-OUS — ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ and upcoming releases

Kyuwon Han and Serenity Li • September 11, 2024

https://open.spotify.com/episode/4JtVasPxe4nmThiCsDyBsH?si=5fba775e8e744b67 Song: gingersweet by massobeats (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y266E3cb840)

Senior Bhajneek Anand (right) poses next to his brother sophomore Manveer Anand on Saturday, April 22, in Indio, California for the second week of Coachella 2023.

Brothers debut cultural dance at Coachella

Serenity Li, Copy Editor • May 22, 2024

Coachella. Growing up, senior Bhajneek Anand said he knew little of this annual music concert venue held since 1999 in Indio, Riverside County. But all of that changed for Anand last year in April. A...

Members of Christian Disability Awareness assist the disabled with arts and crafts at Muldan Garden Disabled Mission Society in Fullerton -- also known as Watered Garden Mission -- on Saturday, Jan. 13.

CLUB CORNER: Christian students aim to spread joy within mentally disabled community

Serenity Li, Copy Editor • January 17, 2024

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

Junior Malakai Yun (right), a Board Game Club co-president, holds a Pop Up Pirate interactive activity in his hand as he looks through a plastic bin that Spanish teacher and group adviser Christian Llamas keeps in Room 71 on Thursday, Jan. 11. Members can choose to interact with each other with these screen-free activities, or they can bring their own during their meetings every other Wednesday.

CLUB CORNER: Students on ‘board’ with new group’s screenless lunchtime fun

Serenity Li, Copy Editor • January 16, 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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