El Estoque

Solving for success

Alan Tai • September 24, 2023

rowing up, sophomore Nolan Yiu remembers stumbling upon YouTube videos of people solving Rubik’s cubes. So, when one of Yiu’s friends brought a cube to school in the second week of third grade, he...

MVHS senior wins 3rd in national essay competition

Jefferson Le • December 9, 2021

Senior Riya Ranjan won third place, with special jury distinction, in the 2021 David McCullough Essay Contest on Sept, 26, winning $1,000 in scholarship money. Over 70 high school juniors and seniors...

MV Robotics Club competes in Cal Games

Melody Cui and Krish Dev • October 31, 2021

MVRT competes in its first competition since COVID-19

Competition season is back

Melody Cui, Krish Dev, Gavin Hung, Minjae Kang, Jefferson Le, and Anika Sharma • October 31, 2021

Showcasing MVHS organizations in action

Poetry

Abdullah Memon • March 23, 2021

Junior Lavi Sundar’s journey with Poetry Competitions

Competition culture

Prisha Tiwari, Staff Writer • January 23, 2021

Examining how students and teachers view competition at MVHS

Performative nonprofits: the good and the bad

Jefferson Le, News Editor • October 28, 2020

Many student-run unofficial nonprofits are a result of the Silicon Valley’s competitive atmosphere

Modeling the future: MVHS students advance to finalist symposium for national mathematical modeling competition

Brian Xu • April 10, 2020

Each year, the Actuarial Foundation hosts the Modeling the Future (MTF) Challenge, a competition for high school students centered around analyzing data through mathematical models. Junior Parth Asawa,...

MVHS seniors reflect on their wins at LA North Regional

Andie Liu • March 11, 2020

MVRT reaches finals and qualifies for the For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) Championship in April

What’s in your bag?

Hannah Lee • March 11, 2020

Dancer Ariyal Jain shares some of her essentials

Growing pains

Sreya Kumar • October 6, 2019

The downfalls of growing up in the Singaporean education system

The incremental successes: Monta Vista Robotics Team season recap

Rana Aghababazadeh and Brandon Ng • May 24, 2019

During the summer before each school year, the Monta Vista Robotics Team (MVRT) hosts a program called Head Start, in which incoming underclassmen learn the necessary skills to join the team; these skills...