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Senior Lillian Foster poses with a tennis racket and balls at Northwestern’s tennis court on Monday, July 8, during the Northwestern pre-college program from Sunday, June 30-Saturday, July 13.

FROM SUMMER ACTION TO EARLY DECISION: Chance to study at Northwestern solidifies senior’s top college choice

Caroline Shin, Staff Reporter • January 27, 2025

As the new year begins, students and parents may consider summer options for the former to enhance educational opportunities, especially at the collegiate level. The Accolade offers the second in a series...

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 10, 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...

Since the 2019-2020 school year, Sunny Hills has faced a decline in student enrollment. Although the change is not incredibly significant, many classes are seeing lesser student attendance and schoolwide programs are also experiencing a small decrease.

SH faces decline in student enrollment for the first time since COVID-19 pandemic

Aashna Dialani, Opinion Editor • September 23, 2024

For the first time in nearly six years, student enrollment for the 2024-2025 school year dipped by 3.9% compared with the previous term, school officials said. Principal Craig Weinreich attributed the...

Senior Krisi Patel holds up her two honorary certificates as the 2022-2023 Advancement Via Individual Determination [AVID] Senior Standout April 18 at the Irvine Barclay Theatre, where Orange County AVID students were recognized.

JOURNEY TO STANDOUT: AVID senior looks back on the path to success

Julie Jung, Staff Reporter • May 18, 2023

Growing up, senior Krisi Patel felt deprived of the mother-daughter relationship she thought everyone else had. At 10 months of age, her mother was diagnosed with poliomyelitis, a disease that restricts...

Traditionally held on campus, Back to School Night for students' parents will be held through Zoom meetings with teachers Tuesday, Aug. 25, at 5:45 p.m. for zero period and 6 p.m. for first period. Sunny Hills officials had to resort to an all-virtual program in keeping with COVID-19 health guidelines, and so like the current situation with students, they will be unable to see some of the newly designed aspects of the school such as the front doors in the main office wing.

COVID-19 forces school officials to change the Aug. 25 Back to School Night into Zoom experience for parents

Rida Zar, Opinion Editor • August 24, 2020

For the first time, Sunny Hills will hold a virtual Back-to-School-Night Tuesday, Aug. 25, for students’ parents in keeping with COVID-19 social distancing and health guidelines, school officials said. “We...

Lori Larsen is the only Sunny Hills teacher who will retire at the end of the 2019-2020 school year next week. Larsen was instrumental in setting up on campus the Advancement Via Individual Determination program, which started in 2006.

After 31 years in education, AVID and business teacher Lori Larsen retires to pursue dream of fixing up house in South Carolina

Lira Jeong, Feature Editor • May 19, 2020

For 14 years, Lori Larsen has encouraged her students to pursue their dreams of getting admitted into a four-year college through the Advancement Via Individual Determination [AVID] program. And after...

Senior Dana Mabin holds up the email she received April 7 from the Orange County Community Foundation notifying her of the $25,000 scholarship she received from a county AVID awards ceremony, which was canceled and turned into a virtual slide presentation ceremony because of the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the email, Mabin will be given $6,250 through a scholarship check which will be mailed directly to her educational institution to help cover each year’s college tuition up to four years total.

Sunny Hills AVID Senior Standout gets top scholarship prize of $25,000 from virtual Orange County Department of Education awards ceremony

Andrew Park, Arts & Entertainment Editor • April 21, 2020

In the midst of the coronavirus crisis with several senior-related events canceled or drastically changed, Dana Mabin received some good news from the Orange County Department of Education [OCDE]. This...

Senior Dana Mabin holds up the certificate she received back in November for being this school year's AVID Senior Standout. Mabin will be recognized April 20 at the University of California at Irvine's Barclay Theater. That’s also the same day when she’ll find out whether she will be awarded up to $24,000 for the Orange County AVID scholarship and up to $2,500 for the AVID Orange County Dollars scholarship. Image used with permission from Lori Larsen.

Meet this year’s Sunny Hills AVID Senior Standout: Dana Mabin

Andrew Park, Arts & Entertainment Editor • January 21, 2020

“Hard-working, driven, determined, ambitious and focused.” Those are the words from an staff email that Lori Larsen, the district’s coordinator of the Advancement Via Individual Determination...

New assistant principal Melissa Stinson works in her office dealing with tasks given to her at her new position. Photo taken by Paul Yasutake.

New Sunny Hills administrator brings extensive experience from La Habra

Andrew Hong, Arts & Entertainment Editor • October 1, 2019

 “Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.” Willliam Shakespeare’s character, Lucio, makes this statement to Isabella, the protagonist of the...

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