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The Accolade

The Student News Site of Sunny Hills High School

The Accolade

The Student News Site of Sunny Hills High School

The Accolade

Ready to take on any field

Ready to take on any field

Christine Yoo, Managing Editor May 16, 2025

I don’t like sports. Besides dabbling in swim for a few years in elementary school, athletics was never a passion I sought to pursue.  So, imagine my surprise when I saw my name printed right next...

From a byline to a legacy

From a byline to a legacy

Seowon Han, Web Editor-in-Chief May 16, 2025

In eighth grade, all I wanted was a byline. Not an award. Not a leadership title. Just to see my name in print — to write something that mattered enough to be published. Scrolling through the Sunny...

Fall to spring

Fall to spring

Kayden Kim, Opinion Editor May 16, 2025

Freshman year starts in fall and feels like it too. We enter campus nervous, with a new backpack, maybe even a pair of new shoes and the air crisp with possibility.  We make friends and get used to...

A mark in crimson

A mark in crimson

Justin Pak, Web Managing Editor May 16, 2025

It began as something to fear. The red pen came in many hands — teachers, peers, even family — each one tearing through my work with sharp, decisive strokes. A line through a phrase. A question...

From accident to Accolade

From accident to Accolade

Claire Lee, Entertainment Editor May 15, 2025

I’m not someone who plans things out carefully.  I didn’t have some grand idea of joining a journalism program or becoming an editor one day. I just signed up for The Accolade because I liked writing...

The Accolade became my Stars Hollow

The Accolade became my Stars Hollow

Alexxa Berumen, Editor-in-Chief May 15, 2025

I fixed my gaze upon Rory Gilmore, her perfect brown hair and lively doe eyes. The little similarities in her appearance, music taste and appreciation for food only made her resonate with me more. She...

Listening between the lines

Listening between the lines

Faith Jung, Spotlight Specialty Magazine Editor May 15, 2025

My greatest talent is storytelling.  I believe in the power of narratives to not just inform but also to connect, and journalism sets the stage for this talent to flourish.  I used to think of...

Write my wrongs

Write my wrongs

Jenna Kim, Entertainment Editor May 15, 2025

They say words are a writer’s best friends. For me, they’ve always been more like frenemies. In second grade, while my classmates were mastering addition and subtraction, I sat outside the patio...

Crossing continents, crafting stories

Crossing continents, crafting stories

Angelina Jeong, Spotlight Specialty Magazine Editor May 15, 2025

When I first interacted with English at the age of 5 back in Korea, the language was a puzzle. But as I carefully pieced together the alphabet and basic vocabulary, I was drawn to its openness. Unlike...

A NEW CHAPTER: Photography creates a new snapshot in my life

A NEW CHAPTER: Photography creates a new snapshot in my life

Rebekah Kim, Photo Editor June 2, 2023

Two strikes. Three balls. Runners on first and third. I could see the sweat trickling down the sides of my brother’s face as he took a deep breath and began his wind up on the mound. Moms in the stands...

I took a turn for the better

I took a turn for the better

Grace Min, Sports Editor June 2, 2023

In 2019 on the first day of freshman year, I wrote an introductory letter to my English 1 Honors teacher in which I discussed my family background, core work habits and the goals I planned to adopt for...

Staying true to my words

Staying true to my words

Giselle Suastegui, Feature Editor June 2, 2023

“We want Richman Park!” “We want Richman Park!” “We want Richman Park!” Carrying a sign that towered over my little body, my five-year-old self sat on the shoulders of an unfamiliar...

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