the accolade VOLUME LXI, ISSUE VI // SUNNY HILLS HIGH SCHOOL 1801 LANCER WAY, FULLERTON, CA 92833 // MAY 21, 2021 JACQUELINE CHANG | theaccolade LOGGING OFF & ZOOMING AWAY As the 2020-2021 distance/hybrid learning school year ends, The Accolade’s Senior Issue highlights 18 valedictorians, tying the most esbalished here two years ago. See pages 6-8. May 21, 2021 2 ADVERTISEMENT the accolade the accolade NEWS May 21, 2021 3 A Lancer Awards night in School officials with the help of students from the Associat- ed Student Body gave Lancer ON THE RED CAR- Award nominees the red car- PET: Award-winners pet treatment on Wednesday in lined up as they await- keeping with its “Night in Holly- ed school officials to wood” theme. call out their names to The after school event took go to the center of the place in the quad for the first quad to accept their medals or certificates. time in keeping with COVID-19 health and safety guidelines. Photos by Accolade photographer Audrey Seo BLAZING STAR: Junior Malini Pandey (left) holds her Rotary Club certificate in front of the stage in the quad for her older sister to SAY CHEESE: Junior Curtis Kim holds out take a picture. The award his certificate for a photo opp. School officials honors students with the set up stations throughout the quad for par- highest GPA for this school ents to take pictures of their award-winners. year. Yearbook delayed ASB posts last video assembly until June or July of school year on SH website MINJEONG KIM ANTHONY KEEM past school year’s events such as victories Staff Reporter from the spring sports games, homecom- Staff Reporter ing court and National Signing Day for For a second consecutive year, compli- After the Associated Student Body senior athletes, ASB assembly commis- cations from the coronavirus pandemic [ASB] officials and students reviewed all sioner senior Estefanni Espinoza said. have caused a delay in the Helios yearbook options — including an in-person end- Espinoza also said segments of the vid- publication, which will not be distributed of-the-year assembly in the quad — they eo assembly also heavily feature a perfor- to those who paid for one until after the decided the best way to meet the state’s mance by Dance Production and teachers semester ends. Center for Disease Control and Preven- dancing together in unison, creating the Yearbook adviser Lindsay Safe said dis- tion [CDC] guidelines would be a video, theme of “High School Musical.” tributions will take place in late June or which was released Thursday. “I think the video was a really good early July in or near the quad, although no “It was the best way to make sure that way to end the year coming into finals specific date is available as of May 20. everyone could see the [end-of-the-year] week and graduation,” senior Jason Thom- “Everything will be worth it when you assembly,” ASB co-adviser David Fens- son said. “Seeing that all of our sports and see the book [still has] 312 pages that doc- termaker said. teachers are continuing the legacy of Sun- ument the lives of our community during Previously, the ASB had considered ny Hills really puts you back into being on this year,” Safe said. “If anything, this is the Image printed with permission from Anika Madan hosting the end-of-year assembly in the campus for the first day of freshman year year you’ll want to remember when you LATE ARRIVAL: Students who quad using the jumbotron because of the to now.” look back on high school, and we did the bought a yearbook will not be able to change in CDC guidelines for social dis- OTHER EVENTS CANCELED best we could.” get it until the summer. Meanwhile, tancing from 3-6 feet; however, prioritiz- Mr. Sunny Hills and prom will not The staff submitted final spreads May Helios released its front cover and ing the safety of students and accessibility make an appearance in the end-of-the- 20 to the printing company, Herff Jones, to theme on Instagram April 30. of the assembly took precedence. year assembly video. start printing the book. The yearbooks will “I’m very pleased with how our entire The ASB scrapped the competition be- be printed by the end of June, Helios co- yearbook and didn’t understand how we’d school has adjusted to the multiple chang- cause of the lack of applicants, secretary editor-in-chief senior Anika Madan said. get content,” she said. “We only ordered es and challenges throughout the year,” and prom committee member, junior Jas- Previously in 2020, Helios experienced 650 given how many we’d sold when our Paris said. “We would all prefer to have mine Lee said. a delay in the yearbook distribution as numbers were due, [and] at this point, we a live, in-the-gym assembly, but [a video] The ASB prom committee dropped well because Herff Jones closed for about have under 100 left.” is one of the adjustments that we’ve made prom as COVID-19 precautions and re- six weeks to meet the state’s COVID-19 Yearbooks can still be bought on the this year.” strictions mandated by the FJUHSD inter- guidelines. Sunny Hills webstore. The video spans nearly 15 minutes and fered with a potential dance. Sales for the annual are also down com- is available to watch on the Sunny Hills “It unfortunately did not work out pared with previous years, Safe said. For the full story, go to https:// website and the ASB’s official Instagram though we were back in school, and it was “I think students and teachers are in- shhsaccolade.com/category/ page. too late in the school year to plan any sort correctly assuming we couldn’t make a news/ Highlights of the video include the of prom video or court,” Lee said. 4 May 21, 2021 NEWS the accolade Project to install solar carports will finish by summer DANIEL KONG Once completed, the 1,600 LG Asst. Business Manager solar panels are expected to pro- duce 80% of the electricity that While vehicles have been al- the campus uses, Borrego offi- lowed to park outside the Per- cials said. forming Arts Center and take ad- Each panel can produce 675 vantage of the shade provided by kilowatts of power, while the car- some of the newly installed solar port structures measure 40 feet panel carports, the project will wide and 10 feet tall, Borrego of- not be completed until the sum- ficials said. ALL PHOTOS BY BRIANNA ZAFRA| theaccolade mer, school officials said. Sunny Hills is the second ALL SYSTEMS GO?: A worker from Borrego Solar Systems Inc. takes a look Thursday morn- Sections of the lot remain school in the Fullerton Joint ing at one of the power panels of the solar panel carports that have been installed at the Perform- fenced off, and an electric vehicle Union High School District to in- ing Arts Center parking lot. The project is scheduled to be completed by the end of June. charging station has yet to be in- stall solar panels carports, the first stalled. being Troy High School. By midday on Thursday, some When the charging station workers from Borrego Solar Sys- is installed, Whitten said that it tems Inc. inspected connections would only be available for use inside the carports. by Sunny Hills staff who own Principal Allen Whitten said electric vehicles. the $2.5 million solar panel car- Junior Andrew Kim, who re- port installation, which began turned to in-person instruction in four months ago, is the last of the mid-April, has been among the construction/remodeling projects teen drivers taking advantage of on campus. the shade from the carports. When completed without any “I notice that after getting into delays at the end of June, Whitten my car at the end of the day, it said he plans to have the lot resur- isn’t boiling hot inside, where it faced with new parking markers would be if parked in the sun,” underneath each carport. said Kim, who parks in that lot “I imagine a beautifully lined because it’s closest to his first pe- and brand new drop off zone, riod Advanced Placement English [efficient] traffic flow and [new] Language class in Room 14. “Ul- SWEET SHADE: Some cars are beginning to take advantage of the recently installed solar parking spots, but this may not all timately, I think that they were a panel ports. When completed, the lot will include an electric vehicle charging station for staff use, happen this summer,” he said. great investment by the district.” while the panels will produce 80% of the school’s electricity. Seniors to get free breakfast burritos, Papers fly, seniors pick up grad tickets on May 25 event share goodbyes DOMINIQUE CHANG & No other students would be ing the event. ALICE SHIN on campus at the time because Others coordinating Senior Staff Reporter & Asst. News Editor non-seniors are required to stay Farewell include the ASB, the home during final exam days. Parent Teacher Student Associa- To ensure that COVID-19 In the past, students who want- tion [PTSA] and the Senior Class, health and safety protocols are ed to attend the Senior Breakfast Paris said. followed, school officials have would have to pay a fee between Paris said the video will be combined some traditional, end- $10-15. available on the school website of-the-year senior activities into Organized by the ASB, the se- on the same day as Senior Fare- a free one scheduled for May 25.