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El Estoque

The Student News Site of Monta Vista High School

El Estoque

The Student News Site of Monta Vista High School

El Estoque

Volume 54, Issue 7, May 31, 2024

July 11, 2024

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Time Out! Ep. 26: Stanley Du

Time Out! Ep. 26: Stanley Du

Aidan Ruan June 3, 2024

AR: Hi, I’m Aidan and welcome to Episode 26 of Time Out! Each episode, we will be exploring the journeys of various athletes here at Monta Vista High School. In this episode, I am joined by junior...

Tatiana Yoo (12) submitted Started With A Box to the NUMU Los Gatos ArtNow exhibition. Yoo responded to the prompt In Transition with a piece reflecting on childhood wonder.

Award-winning artists

When going to install her artwork for the NUMU ArtNow show in Los Gatos, senior Tatiana Yoo originally wasn’t proud of her piece, “It Started With A Box” – a digital drawing that depicted a girl...

Overbaked by Anqi Chen
Digital Painting

Anqi Chen

May 27, 2024

EE: Why did you choose your title? AC: “It's a Chinese saying of being in the oven for too long, and it refers to a child who doesn't want to grow up.” EE: What is your piece about?  AC:...

Bleeding Hearts by Esther Suh
3D Installation, made with paper, plastic tubes and food coloring

Esther Suh

May 27, 2024

EE: What is your piece about?  ES: “So the concept of my piece is about empathizing with other people and the process of getting hurt and then healing from those wounds. So I was thinking about...

Rachael Ding

May 27, 2024

EE: What is your piece about? RD: “So the piece is called Swing State. And it's actually to refer to the upcoming 2024 elections. It's like a play on words because you're also in a state of suspended...

The PlayStation 5 that Aditya Ghosh used to play on often when he was younger. Photo Courtesy of Aditya Ghosh | Used with Permission

Gamers compare consoles

Raj Thapliyal, Staff Writer May 25, 2024

Skyler Yang Sophomore Skyler Yang’s journey through console gaming started before she was even born when her parents bought one of the first consoles Xbox released — the Xbox 360. Yang remembers being...

Rethinking How to Teach Like Water for Chocolate

Rethinking How to Teach ‘Like Water for Chocolate’

Dahlia Schilling May 23, 2024

In the World Studies classroom at MVHS, students hide giggles at sensual descriptions and scenes in “Like Water for Chocolate” by Laura Esquivel. The novel is taught during a history unit focusing...

Varsity Boys Volleyball reached the CIF NorCal Championships for the first time in five years, where they placed second overall.

Boys Volleyball falls 3-2 to Leigh High School in the DIII CIF NorCal Championship Final

Aidan Ruan May 21, 2024

Varsity Boys Volleyball fell to Leigh High School 2-3 in the final round of the DIII CIF NorCal Championships on Saturday, May 19. The Matadors and Longhorns went neck and neck during the first two sets,...

History lecturer Meg Eppel Gudgeirsson reflects on Americas most marginalized communities and how their overlooked experiences provided invaluable insight on developments in America’s history.

The stories we tell: Monta Vista TEDX host annual spring conference

Aidan Ruan May 20, 2024

Monta Vista TEDX, a club dedicated to the promotion of TED’s mission of communicating “Ideas Worth Spreading” to MVHS’s community, hosted its annual spring conference on May 17 in the Black Box....

Mandarin is a notoriously difficult language, but I found out through my Chinese 1 experience that it is worth the challenge.

‘But Chinese is too hard’

Asha Wojciechowski, Opinion Editor May 18, 2024

“I’m going to learn Chinese.”  I stood up, crossed the room to my computer and clicked “Chinese 1” under the electives tab on my course selection form. My mom looked at me, and I could see...

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