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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, Cub Reporter • May 18, 2025

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...

Senior Kaneiya Desai shows a machine learning model he created on his laptop screen that helps classify optical coherence tomography scans. Desai plans on attending the University of California, Berkeley, for bioengineering. (Illustrations by DaHee Kim)

18 Questions for Top of the 2023 Class: Kaneiya Desai aspires to work in the ophthalmic medical field after childhood experience of corneal scarring

Susie Kim, Web Editor-in-Chief • May 25, 2023

Question 1: How do you feel as one of the 18 valedictorians? Answer: I feel honored to have received this award and glad that my hard work has paid off. I am very proud of all 18 of us for having made...

Associated Student Body [ASB] members juniors Prysilla Ahn and Hannah Garcia tape up a poster for social science teacher Hera Kwon on the door of Room 52 during third period on Thursday, May 11, for Teacher Appreciation Week. The poster says, “Thank you Mrs. Kwon, We Love You!”

Photo Gallery: Teacher Appreciation Week

Rebekah Kim, Photo Editor • May 23, 2023

Chemistry teacher Alexander Hua (right) stands next to his opponent, Kevin Granados, whom he beat in the final match of Fullerton's gaming arena Ultimate Weekly #50 competition on Sunday, Jan. 8.

TEACHER LEISURE: Chemistry instructor also a Smash Bros. gamer

Pricilla Escobedo, Data Team Leader • February 17, 2023

As a continuation of a new feature, “Teacher Leisure” explores Sunny Hills teachers’ hobbies outside of school. What impacts have they made not only on students, but also outside of their classroom? For...

Juniors Karen Huang (left) and Susie Kim make final adjustments to their Scrambler, which consists of an energy propulsion system and vehicle, before the eight-minute time limit to test the device at the Great Oak Science Olympiad Invitational Saturday, Dec. 3, in the Great Oak High School Performing Art Center in Temecula. Huang and Kim placed sixth in this category.

Reviving my Science Olympiad spirit after my first in-person competition in over two years

Susie Kim, Web Editor-in-Chief • January 9, 2023

February 15, 2020. That was the day my middle school Science Olympiad team placed fifth at the Orange County Regional competition, qualifying us for the Southern California state tournament. It also...

Science teacher Andrew Gartner’s renovated classroom, Room 112, features new lab stations in the "batwing" style. Teachers in the Science Department were able to choose this style or have lab and lecture tables separate.

Biology, chemistry teachers renovate classrooms with new laboratory stations

Henry Lee, Web Editor-in-Chief • November 10, 2020

When students return to campus for hybrid learning next week, they will see “batwing” style lab stations in many of their science classes. “Our science department is really, really strong and...

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