The Accolade

Old-style methods just lower my GPA

Faith Jung, Entertainment Editor • February 20, 2024

This story was originally published in our March 3 print issue last year. Because of our oversight, the full version never got posted online, which is why...

COLUMN: I’m looking forward to be among first in the U.S. to take digital SAT version next year

Chris Lee, Staff Reporter • November 13, 2023

SAT, SAT, SAT. I’ve heard about this standardized test since elementary school from friends, teachers and parents. I was going into seventh grade at Parks Junior High when my parents got me my first...

DMV offers online platform for driver’s knowledge exam

Nathan Lee, Assistant Entertainment Editor • October 14, 2022

Students 18 and above can now take the Department of Motor Vehicles [DMV] permit exam from the comfort of their home online instead of the traditional in-person option in which test-takers have to endure...

Head to Head: Senior Moments

April 30, 2021

First-year transfer 12th-graders share reasons for attending school in-person or not

In-person way to end

Chamonix Bas, Cub Reporter • April 30, 2021

Stepping onto the Sunny Hills campus for the first time in over three years, I still felt like a freshman. Just like my first day of ninth grade in August 2017, I printed out a map of the campus and...

Let’s stick with Zoom sessions

Joanna Carbajal • March 15, 2021

My experience during the pandemic was hard ever since it started. I started losing myself. It was becoming harder to focus since the pandemic was new and was stressing many families and my peers, but...

Coronavirus Testimonies: Students open up about their COVID-19 experiences

Hope Li, Opinion Editor • March 13, 2021

It was only a month into the lockdown that started last March when senior Marcus Llajaruna went for a run and started experiencing muscle weakness, a coronavirus symptom. It was worse for junior Kelly...

ASB produces Google Slides promoting 66 clubs for prospective members to review in lieu of traditional Club Rush at break

Hope Li, Opinion Editor • September 7, 2020

This story was updated at 8:33 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 7, to correct junior Jasmine Lee's leadership role in Key Club. A crowd of students flooding the quad during break. Chanting, shouting and the...

Meeting out the differences: Google’s much simplified features top Zoom

Hannah Kim, Special Sections Editor • September 5, 2020

Last semester, as our school suddenly transitioned into online learning in mid-March, only two of my seven teachers frequently used Zoom as their main form of video meetings with students. Of the others,...

The Accolade: We’ve still got issues planned during distance learning; meanwhile, check us out online during this historic COVID-19 period

Tyler Pak, Editor-in-Chief • August 24, 2020

This past school year, The Accolade has truly lived up to its namesake. In previous years with our print issues, we’ve traveled down a two-year win streak of taking the Best High School Newspaper...

Trustees to meet today, April 23, in special session to discuss Fullerton Joint Union High School District’s end-of-the-semester grading policy because of COVID-19-related school closures

Rida Fatima • April 23, 2020

You can read about the decision that the Fullerton Joint Union High School District made here. Trustees for the Fullerton Joint Union High School District [FJUHSD] will hold a special board meeting...

Charter Communications offers Spectrum free internet for 60 days for students so they can do classwork at home

Hanna Oltman, Arts & Entertainment Editor • April 12, 2020

Since the move last month to distance learning at Sunny Hills High School, Charter Communications has offered free Spectrum Wi-Fi service for 60 days to any homes with K-12 or college students who do not...