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Harker Aquila

The student news site of The Harker School.

Harker Aquila

The student news site of The Harker School.

Harker Aquila

The FPS team smiles on stage with their second place trophy. The four students that competed placed second out of 78 teams at the international conference.

Sophomore Future Problem Solvers place second at international conference

by Nicole Chen and Rose Guan August 26, 2016

Four sophomores placed second in the middle division at the Future Problem Solvers (FPS) international conference at Michigan State University in Lansing, Michigan, from June 1 to June 5. Sophomores...

Movie posters for Finding Dory, Independence Day: Resurgence, The Shallows, The BFG and Suicide Squad. Hollywood is releasing over 40 movies this summer, 17 of which are sequels, remakes and spinoffs.

Movies to look forward to watching this summer

by Prameela Kottapalli, Reporter June 8, 2016

Summer is finally here and so are barbecues, backpacking, binge watching, beach trips and, of course, blockbusters. Not only is making a getaway to the local air-conditioned movie theater an escape from...

Alice Wu (16) and Kevina Xiao (16) prepare for the 2015 club fair. Both new and returning clubs will be allowed to present at the 2016-2017 club fair.

New clubs for 2016-2017 school year

by Katherine Zhang, Reporter May 28, 2016

As the 2015-2016 school year draws to a close, students have begun applying to start new clubs for next year. Those who are proposing ideas for new student organizations must fill out the club starter...

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders addresses an audience of young adults at a presidential campaign event in Des Moines, Iowa.

Number of voters registered for June 7 California primary increases this year

by Tiffany Wong, Reporter May 26, 2016

The number of Californians registering to vote in this year’s presidential primary have increased to 17.4 million voters from last year’s turnout of 13.2 million voters. According to reports from...

Ashwin Reddy (9) remarks on his most favorite memory of the senior class of 2016.  “Meeting the seniors in the robotics club because they’re cool and funny,” he said.

Saying goodbye to the seniors

by Kaitlin Hsu, Aquila Features Editor May 20, 2016

With this year’s graduation ceremony at the Mountain Winery quickly coming up on Thursday, we bid farewell yet again to another class of seniors. The class of 2016 enjoyed some well-deserved downtime...

An example of the Facebook Chess chessboard. Facebook Messenger users can use a command to start a game of chess with a friend.

Facebook Chess is the next move in social media

by Katherine Zhang, Reporter May 17, 2016

At a quiet table in Manzanita, two students sit opposite each other, completely focused on an eight-by-eight checkerboard. After a pause, one student directs her king to capture the rook of her opponent,...

Movie poster for the original Space Jam, released on November 15 1996. The film premiered at #1 in the US box office and grossed over 230 million USD worldwide.

LeBron James to star in “Space Jam 2”

by Prameela Kottapalli, Reporter May 10, 2016

Evil intergalactic theme parks and diabolical alien henchmen. Looney Tunes characters. NBA all-stars. If these words combined make sense to you, then you’ve watched “Space Jam,” the (notably cheesy)...

Led by spirit coordinator Edward Sheu (12), the senior class participates in their last scream-off of high school during the rally. Despite rainy weather, upper school students closed Spirit Week by competing in the annual Spirit Rally on Davis Field on April 22.

Drenched classes compete in pouring rain during rally

by Kaitlin Hsu and Ashley Jiang May 9, 2016

Spirit rallies means sweaty crowds cheering under the unbearable heat of the sun, right? Not so much. Students and faculty crowded under umbrellas and plastic bags to shield themselves from the pouring...

North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory passed the anti-transgender bathroom law on March 23. The law limits transgender individuals to only the bathroom of their birth gender.

Anti-transgender bathroom law causes controversy

by Nicole Chen, Reporter May 9, 2016

North Carolina recently passed an anti-transgender bathroom law on March 23, limiting transgender individuals to use public bathrooms corresponding to only their birth gender. With the recent inauguration...

Nikhil Dharmaraj (9) placed first in Original Oratory at the District National Qualifying Tournament for the National Speech and Debate Associations National Tournament from March 18 to March 20. He will represent California at the National Tournament from June 11 to June 18.

Did you know: Nikhil Dharmaraj’s journey through speech

by Tiffany Wong, Reporter May 5, 2016

Nikhil Dharmaraj (9) joined Harker’s speech and debate team in sixth grade after his parents persuaded him to take public speaking classes at school. After three years of speech and debate at the middle...

“Everything is Rosie” at the spring musical, “Bye Bye Birdie”

“Everything is Rosie” at the spring musical, “Bye Bye Birdie”

by Kaity Gee, Kaitlin Hsu, and Maya Kumar May 5, 2016

The Upper School Conservatory took audiences on a jukebox jammin’ ride for this year’s annual spring musical, “Bye, Bye Birdie”, from April 12 to April 14 at the Blackford theater. When rock...

Alisa Su (10) poses in a selfie with the new Harker Geotags that were released last month.

Snapchat Geofilters introduced to campus

by Jenna Sadhu, Reporter May 5, 2016

Upper school student Alisa Su created two Geofilters on Snapchat that can only be accessed on the Saratoga campus. According to Snapchat, Geofilters appear in thousands of places around the world. Geofilters...

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