El Estoque

Learning from the past, shaping the future

Jami Lim and Mihir Vishwarupe • September 25, 2023

Sixty years after the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, history teacher Bonnie Belshe gathered with 400 people in Birmingham, Alabama to attend the 2023 Forging Justice Commemoration conference for a...

From past to present

Alan Tai • May 13, 2023

Highlighting the people working to preserve Cupertino’s history

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...

Teachers take their own tests

Crystal Cheng and Jisha Rajala • December 6, 2021

History, French, Physics and Calculus teachers share advice for test-taking

Man on the street: Should we celebrate Thanksgiving?

Mikaylah Du and Angela Zhang • November 25, 2021

Discussing whether the holiday should be observed given its history

Debunking the Thanksgiving Fantasy

Lillian Wang • November 25, 2021

In fifth grade, we cut feathers from colored cardstock and glued them to paper headbands. We played as tribesmen and explorers – innocent, awed by the tales of friendship and gratitude we were told of...

Uncovering Project Nightingale: Google accesses Fitbit records

Rachel Jiang and Emily Xia • January 8, 2020

Google receiving medical files stirs controversy

Outside of their element: MVHS faculty commuting to school

Leanna Sun and Shivani Gupta • November 24, 2019

Exploring methods of transportation that MVHS faculty use to get to school and what they listen to while doing so

Field Hockey: MVHS wins back to back games for the first time since 2017

Lance Tong and Sreya Kumar • September 12, 2019

Matadors blows out Wilcox 12-0

Back from Mount Vernon

Jasmine Lee • January 29, 2019

On Dec. 11, 2018, social studies department lead Bonnie Belshe successfully published a five-part lesson plan on the George Washington’s Mount Vernon website after a year of research and months of editing....

Tainted Histories

Shuvi Jha • November 21, 2018

Finding the new in the old

Anish Vasudevan and Ankit Gupta • September 27, 2018

At MVHS, history is a subject that often gets overlooked as students tend to focus more on STEM related subjects. However, the History, Economics, and Politics club (HEP) attempts to put this stigma to...