El Estoque

Finding my voice

Alyssa Yang • June 11, 2023

Understanding how to let myself be heard

Student Equity Task force wraps up the year

Pranati Kotamraju • June 9, 2023

Created in late spring 2022, the Student Equity Taskforce is a student-staff partnership which aims to identify and mitigate inequities within our MVHS community. Originally developed to give students...

Voicing my insecurities

Meggie Chen • June 2, 2023

Learning to stop disliking my own voice

Speaking up: How teachers work with students with speech anxiety

Sophia Chen and Alyssa Hui • March 11, 2020

Teachers explain their ways of dealing with student anxiety when speaking in class

My Voice

Aditi Dixit • March 4, 2020

Three. Squirrel. Mirror. Stretch. Wrench. Cathedral. What do these words have in common? When I was in elementary school, all of these words were difficult for me to pronounce. Even the word pronounce...

Members of the MVHS community use their voices in audiobooks and commentating

Claire Wen • December 17, 2019

Ways in which the MVHS community uses its voice aside from speaking

Next in the Spotlight

Gauri Kaushik • May 22, 2019

s sophomore Naomi Yin filed into the black box theater along with her fellow drama students during tutorial on May 10, her jaw dropped in surprise when she was met not only by their long-term substitute...

Homestead High School alumni create social networking iPhone app

Joyce Varma • October 27, 2013

Social media app Melt allows people to connect with auditory communication rather than visual text or pictures. Class of 2005 Homestead High School alumni Jason Lew and Shane Wey were sitting in a coffee...

Google is feeling lucky

Karishma Mehrotra • January 14, 2010

Teenagers have a growing addiction: Google It began as just a clever "I'm feeling lucky button" but it turned into an international icon of... everything. Literally,...