The 2024-2025 school year has been one I won’t forget for many reasons. It’s the last year where I'm not the oldest. It's the last year before things get serious and I'll have to really decide what's next. I wouldn't say I participate much in school events, but there are some events that I always look forward to. Like...

At some point in their life, students may experience struggling to fit into their friend group due to a difference in interests or in experiences, and resulting in the need to change oneself or start the process of finding a group all over again. When feeling left out of a friend group, it can be for a variety of reasons...

When students are in high school, it’s a time to become more social and surround themselves with people who they can trust, therefore adding more people they enjoy hanging out with, and calling it a circle of friends. Throughout the years of school, from elementary to high school or even college, students end up finding...

Being judged or judging others is a typical thing for us humans to deal with; we're so used to hearing things like, “Why does he walk so funny like that?” and “Oh yeah, she’s so weird for that.” The word “judge” basically means that someone is making an opinion, conclusion, or even a theory about someone else,...

Many students struggle with motivation at school everyday. It is a big issue not only here at Hoover but also many other high schools around the world. Motivation can affect the way you think, your grades, self- esteem and sense of value. Many students' grades drop due to lack of motivation. I can say from personal experience...

As teenagers begin high school, financial struggles begin to look more common within students, and these financial struggles tend to impact their overall education and wellbeing. As prices of many things begin to go up, many teenagers find themselves getting part time jobs in order to help their parents out while also studying...

Grace Lee Boggs was a longtime civil rights activist and a feminist who gave huge amounts of support towards movements in need. Grace Lee Boggs was born on June 27, 1915 in Providence, Rhode Island. At a young age she moved to Queens, New York where she lived in a middle class neighborhood that mainly consisted of white citizens....

Keanu Reeves is a famous actor who has been in many classics such as The Matrix and the John Wick movie series. Keanu means “cool breeze” or “cool breeze over a mountain” in Hawaiian. Reeves’s father, Samuel Reeves, is of Native Hawaiian and Chinese descent. His mother is of English, Irish, and Native American descent....

Olivia Rodrigo was born on February 20, 2003 in Murrieta, California and is best known as an American singer, songwriter, and actress. Rodrigo comes from and proudly identifies as a Filipino American. Rodrio knew who she wanted to be at a young age. She began singing at only five years old first and by the time she was a...

Henry Mai is a student athlete and is very involved in clubs and programs that support his college career and overall future. Henry is a junior who, despite being active in sports and clubs/programs, still keeps his grades a top priority as his current GPA is a 3.82. Henry’s friends describe him as funny, kind, sympathetic,...

Darla Robles is a student with a great attitude and has a 3.0 GPA and working to go higher! She is very friendly and caring, and passionate about achieving her academic and potential goals. She is in the AHHC academy, also known as the health academy. She is a very passionate young woman who knows what she is capable of....

Ms. Ellen Hohenstein For this teacher’s appreciation week, one teacher I want to acknowledge is Ms. Ellen Hohenstein. Her hard work and dedication that is put into this school and her students is astounding. Starting off in her class my junior year, I was unsure of what path I would follow. I know about my love for psychology...

This year's 2025 yearbook is now on sale in the finance office. Editor-in-Chief, Alejandra Ramirez, lead her staff in creating a book that was reflective of the current year, after Hoover had one of its challenging years in 2024.  She wanted to create a book that was fun and that reminded the student body of the great things...

At the beginning of the new year, the academy known as ALMA will now be called VAPA, which stands for visual and performing arts. According to VAPA Director, Mr. Michael Heu, the change was needed because programs in the academy are growing.  Also, there is funding available for arts programs in public schools and the VAPA...

Ms. Carillo Ms. Carillo, as she prefers to be called, always wanted to be an actor or a lawyer but she became a teacher by accident. She never wanted to be a teacher because she was scared that karma was going to get her and it did. Everything she gave to her teachers, she got double of it. What motivated her  to keep...

Ms. Munoz Ms. Andrea Munoz is currently the Academy of Health and Healthy Communities counselor and head counselor of Hoover High School. She originally started school with the intention of becoming a lawyer. However, after getting involved in community service at a middle school, she discovered a passion for volunteering...

Ms. Westfall Ms. Jane Westfall is the director of the Academy of Health and Healthy Communities (AHHC), and has been teaching at Hoover for eight years. Ms. Westfall was born and raised in Ocean Beach, here in San Diego. When she was younger, she wanted to be a scientist out in the environment and she did that for a...