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The four National Merit semi-finalists for the 2024-2025 school year were announced in the Sunny Hills GOLD Standard Newsletter on Friday, Sept. 20.

7 decades of honoring the brightest

Philip Cho, Cub Reporter June 5, 2025

The National Merit Scholarship Corp. [NMSC] has something in common with Disneyland in Anaheim, McDonald’s and Guinness World Records. 1955. That’s the year each organization or franchise was...

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...

Quest’Bridges’ my pathway into higher education

Quest’Bridges’ my pathway into higher education

Giselle Suastegui, Feature Editor September 15, 2022

Yale.  Stanford.  Princeton.  As I sat down in my counselor’s room in February of my junior year reading the list of  schools involved with this program I have never heard about, my jaw...

Senior Andi Elisaldez (left) and AVID coordinator Jennifer Papageorge show off the AVID Senior Standout Award certificate.

AVID Senior Standout reflects on her recognition

Irene Sheen, Managing Editor February 8, 2022

Time is of the essence, and for senior Andi Elisaldez, this was all the more true.  During her college admissions process, Elisaldez had one more concern aside from academics and extracurriculars.  “The...

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...

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