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The Student News Site of Sunny Hills High School

The Accolade

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The Accolade

Oxford University Press, which named "brain rot" its Word of the Year, created this design on its website with words in the background relating to the other runner-up terms that are included in the shortlist.

Brain rot’s the sigma – earns 2024 Word of the Year honor from Oxford English Dictionary

Irene Park, News Editor March 11, 2025

“Selfie” in 2013. “Vape” in 2014. Then another four years later in 2018, “toxic.” And to join the list of Oxford English Dictionary’s annual Word of the Year for 2024 … “brain...

Then-sophomore Nate Barksdale (front row, second from left) holds the ACCOLADE ST sign in the newspaper staff photo that appears in the 1991-1992 yearbook. Unbeknownst to Barksdale, he would eventually ignite an Accolade staff yearbook photo tradition that would last nearly a decade.

DID YOU ALSO KNOW? The Accolade once had its own street sign — why and where is it now?

Alice Chae, Social Media Team & Staff Reporter February 20, 2025

As a continuing feature, The Accolade delves into the origins of Sunny Hills culture or landmarks. Alongside the feature on the journalism program’s 65th year of publishing, we take a look at our own...

Senior Emma De Leon looks forward to stepping into a new phase in her life at UCLA, majoring in mathematics, though she feels bittersweet about leaving her memories with the Bayanihan Club and Dance 3. (Illustrations by DaHee Kim)

18 Questions for Top of the 2023 Class: Emma De Leon reminisces about her memories as 4-year Dance 3 member, Bayanihan performer after graduating as valedictorian

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

Question 1: How do you feel as one of the 18 valedictorians? Answer: I feel very honored as one of the valedictorians this year. It’s a bit anticlimactic but it’s a goal I’ve been working toward...

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...

Dean Williams (left), played by Elisha Williams, and Cory Long (right), played by Amari O’Neil, bond over a fishing trip. The ABC TV series, “The Wonder Years,” will make a grand return to the entertainment industry with its reboot set to premiere Wednesday, Sept. 22 at 8:30 p.m.

1980s-1990s ‘The Wonder Years’ reboot features all African-American cast, brings new perspective to life in the ’60s

Kate Yang, Editor-in-Chief September 21, 2021

Six seasons. 115 episodes. One family.  From 1988 to 1993, “The Wonder Years” stole thousands of viewers’ hearts centered on the life of a young teenager, Kevin Arnold, who narrates the series...

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