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The Student News Site of Sunny Hills High School

The Accolade
The Student News Site of Sunny Hills High School

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Graduating as the top of the Class of 2024, senior Katie Larson committed to the Georgia Institute of Technology, where she will be majoring in aerospace engineering.

CLASS OF 2024 VALEDICTORIAN Q&A: Katie Larson

Darin Lee, Cub Reporter • May 23, 2024

The Class of 2024 produced 39 valedictorians, and The Accolade interviewed each to reflect on their high school journeys and thoughts. This is a full version of the Q&A, of which the preview is included...

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...

Senior Ashley Hoang (left) hands over her spirit wear form to senior Elaine Chu during Lancer Day on Aug. 10. The Aug. 10-released school health and safety guidelines now allow anyone on campus to be mask-free when outdoors.

New 2021-2022 campus health and safety protocols ease anxiety for several students, staff returning for live classroom instruction

Susie Kim, Web Editor-in-Chief • August 19, 2021

Sophomore Benjamin Blodgett had been coming to the Sunny Hills campus for hybrid learning last school year and was well-aware of the school’s health and safety protocols during the COVID-19 pandemic. So...

Video: Students react to first sophomore BBQ

Video: Students react to first sophomore BBQ

Jennie Jeong and Kristima Aryal • August 16, 2021

Link Crew leader senior Jessica Kim (right) gets ready for a fist bump to greet a freshman during the line rearranging activity in the gym. A total of 500 ninth-graders attended the Link Crew-sponsored freshman orientation that started in the gym and continued in various classrooms where upperclassmen had a chance to socialize with a smaller size of the incoming Sunny Hills students.

500 freshmen show up for Link Crew’s Aug. 6 orientation – the first to be held on campus since 2019

Minjeong Kim, Feature Editor • August 15, 2021

Incoming ninth-grader Max Eu wouldn’t have shown up for freshman orientation at Sunny Hills if it weren’t for his older sister, senior Yonhee Eu. The sibling is a second-year leader in Link Crew,...

Then-junior Daniel Magpayo (center) gives instructions to Krystopher Bagunu (left) and Leoni Nguyen, then juniors, in the gym during the Aug. 6, 2019, Link Crew freshman orientation. For the 2020-2021 school year freshman orientation, Link Crew had to resort to meeting with freshmen through the Zoom meeting platform because of COVID-19 health and safety guidelines.

COVID-19 health guidelines force Link Crew to welcome freshmen via Zoom instead of live orientation on campus

Michelle Sheen, Editor-in-Chief • September 9, 2020

After three years of holding freshman orientation on campus before the start of the school year, Link Crew had to resort to a virtual one that attracted 450 students to meet COVID-19 health and safety...

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