El Estoque

COVID-19 surges for weeks following winter break

Krish Dev, Website Editor • January 24, 2022

Understanding the increase in COVID-19 cases at FUHSD

Color Guard transitions to in-person practices

Nameek Chowdhury and Jisha Rajala • September 29, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic was a huge obstacle for the MVHS Color Guard team, with social distancing protocols forcing the team’s regular practices to transition online. Now that in-person practices are allowed,...

Optimism amongst small clubs

February 10, 2021

How smaller clubs have managed to stay afloat during a distance learning school year

MVHS Music Department’s All-State Band and Orchestra members

Aditya Shukla and Devin Gupta • February 8, 2021

How All-State band programs are managed through the screen

Acknowledging Cultural Celebrations

Abdullah Memon, Aditya Shukla, and Justin E Kim • December 5, 2020

The MVHS administration’s stance on cultural awareness and reducing workload for traditionally celebrated holidays

The symbol of a face mask in America versus Asia

Rachel Jiang • April 14, 2020

Examining the reasons why Americans aren’t encouraged to wear masks as opposed to Asian countries

Recalling major news events from Summer 2019

Shuvi Jha, Ishaani Dayal, Michelle Chen, Jayanti Jha, and Sarah Young • August 25, 2019

Exploring students’ reactions to summer news events

Buying Local

Ayah Ali-Ahmad, Anish Vasudevan, Ankit Gupta, Charlotte Chui, Collin Qian, Dhruvika Randad, Flora Peng, Gauri Kaushik, Hannah Lee, Shivani Gupta, and Tina Low • May 22, 2019

Engaging in intergenerational conversation: CSF volunteers at retirement home

Claire Chang and Brian Xu • March 15, 2019

unior Ellie Chen draws a small rectangle on a piece of paper, labeling it “green.” She continues to draw bigger rectangles, labeling each with a different color, and hands it to the senior citizen...

Easy ways to read the news

Shivani Gupta, Staff Writer • March 11, 2019

A few methods to quickly become informed

State divided: Political factors that have lead to a governmental divide

Sarah Young and Andrea Perng • February 8, 2019

he second government shutdown of Donald Trump’s presidency began on Dec. 22 and persisted to Jan. 27, becoming the longest government shutdown in U.S. history at 36 days. A government shutdown stems...

So… what exactly is going on?

Sara Entezar • February 8, 2019

Certainly, news comprehension has failed to take root. Prior to the ‘fake news’ era bombarding of recent years, news coherency concerns extended to the principles of news comprehension. The diction...