Girl plays ‘boy’ sport: Eden Ovadia paves the way for women in football

By Sara Shohoud

October 30, 2019

H omestead has made history. Senior Eden Ovadia is the first female to play on the boys varsity football team for two seasons, playing as a wide receiver and free safety. Ovadia was able to try out for the team with the help of her teacher, she said. “One of my teachers was the [football] co...

Tags: fall sports, football, girls, girls in football, girls in sports, girls sports, hhs football, homestead football, male-dominated sports, sports

Mustangs take down CHS in 12-7 win

By Andrea Sun

October 30, 2019

Tags: cheer, cheerleaders, fall sports, football, friday night lights, hhs football, homestead football, mustangs football, sports

Varsity girls golf kicks off new season

By Kacey Rebstock

September 17, 2019

With the start of the school year, the fall sports season has commenced. Though the season is notorious for more popular sports like football, smaller teams are also taking stage. One such team is girls varsity golf. With a maximum number of 12 available spots on the team, 13 girls participated...

Orchestra Holiday Concert Photo Gallery

By Steven Lefaive

January 6, 2019

Homestead and Cupertino orchestras combined for Homestead's annual holiday concert. A selection of band also joined orchestra for their concert. The combined orchestra totaled to over 150 students, and played pieces like "Danzon" and "Plink Plank Plunk." ...

Girls Varsity Soccer HHS vs. Braham Photo Gallery

By Melody Chen, Katelyn Pan, and Renee Wang

December 18, 2018

Staff Christmas Party Photo Gallery

By Eden Pollitt, Senior Design Editor

December 17, 2018

Homecoming Game: HHS vs. Cupertino

By Thomas Denome and Claire Torii

October 24, 2018

Homecoming Parade Photo Gallery

By Thomas Denome and Claire Torii

October 20, 2018

Homecoming Rally Photo Gallery

By Lyndon Lee, Thomas Denome, and Claire Torii

October 20, 2018

Homestead vs. Branham Photo Gallery

By Brandon Welty, Senior Photography Editor

September 2, 2018

Last Friday, the Mustangs played against Branham High School in a non-league game. JV lost with a score of 14-30, while Varsity lost with a score of 27-49. Key players for Varsity were Aaron Odour (12), Harold Rucker III (11) and Jared Wade (11). You can watch a sports recap video of the Varsity ga...

Student Walk-Out Photo Gallery

March 14, 2018

Students march from HHS to FHS and Sunnyvale City Hall to protest against gun violence.

The glowing highlights from the Blacklight Rally/Photo Gallery

By Eileen Chih and Brandon Welty

December 1, 2017

The new girls hip hop group, known as Alpha Mare, and senior Hamza Jabbar performed at the Blacklight Rally Dec. 1. Krew and HHS Bhangra also performed their dance routines as a part of the annual culmination of the winter spirit week. Senior IndoPak co-presidents Pranali Kasturi and Nikhil Kulkarni said...

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Cubing Club held its first competition on Nov. 8 after school, allowing students to experience a competitive atmosphere and to test their cubing skills against others. “I’m not much of an experienced cuber,” junior Samrudh Shenoy said, “but I liked [the competition] because it was my first opportunity to really be in a competitive cubing environment and have the cube scrambled by a separate person, have my own timer, a cover for the cube [and] all the competition standard techniques.” Check out link in bio for more!

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During the competition, held on Nov. 8 after school, participants attempted to solve a mixed-up Rubik’s Cube in the shortest amount of time. For a typical competition, each contestant has fifteen seconds to inspect the cube before they must start solving the cube, according to World Cube Association.

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Cubing competition allows students to test skills

Cubing Club held its first competition, allowing students to experience a competitive atmosphere and to test their cubing skills against others. During the competition, held on Nov. 8 after school, participants attempted to solve a mixed-up Rubik’s Cube in the shortest amount of time. For a typica...

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OPINION: Facebook has adopted a no-filter policy while Twitter has created a heavily-filtered platform in which the information candidates transmit is censored. The reality in a free society is that no filter is better than too much filter.

By Naomi Baron

Twitter’s political ads ban limits freedom of expression

According to New York Times, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey tweeted on Oct. 30 that Twitter will no longer allow political advertisements of any kind on their social media site. While Twitter’s intentions with the newest censorship do include some rational thinking, like limiting fake news, this ban limi...

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Girls water polo season wrap-up: despite having a low record, the team feels that their chemistry has drastically improved and enjoy playing together. Check out their favorite days of practice. Link in bio!

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This year's show featured an eye-opening costume change from the usual black and green uniforms to colorful shirts representing the name of their show: "Wildflowers." Mr. Rendon, the band director, said that each shirt was unique and all were different colors, which represented the diversity of HHS.

By Sahil Venkatesan

Wildflower show bursts with color

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“Once we talked [our issues] out, [we] became more of a team, rather than just a group of people playing water polo together,” junior Lauren Lederer said.

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Girls varsity water polo: abysmal record not reflective of team’s strength

G irls varsity water polo ended their season on Oct. 31. Despite a subpar record of 2-9, players still saw improvement from the previous year. “In the beginning we were a little bit rough [in the number of games we lost but] throughout the season, we got better at that,” junior Lauren Lederer sa...

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