The student news site of The Harker School.

Harker Aquila

The student news site of The Harker School.

Harker Aquila

The student news site of The Harker School.

Harker Aquila

WiSTEM Co-president Sahngwie Yim (11) conducts a magic sand experiment with a lower schooler during the STEM Buddies event. The third and fourth graders attended a total of five stations during the event.

WiSTEM brings labs and laughter to lower school through STEM Buddies

by Ashley Mo and Margaret Cartee December 4, 2023

13 upper school Women in STEM members visited the lower school campus to host interactive STEM Buddies experiments for two classes of first and second grade students on Oct. 27. WiSTEM members led activities...

Krish Arora (10) delivers a presentation on AI hyperparameters during an AI Club meeting on Nov 10. AI Club hoped to make the discussed concepts accessible to their audience.

STEM Spotlight: Artificial Intelligence Clubs

by Claire Zhao and Edward Huang November 30, 2023

Recent developments in Artificial Intelligence (AI) have taken the world by storm — and that includes the upper school’s selection of AI-related clubs. Alongside the pre-existing AI Club, the Artificial...

STEM Scene is Harker Aquilas STEM repeater focusing on current developments within the STEM world. This installation features five briefs.

STEM Scene: Nov. 28

by Ashley Mo and Mihir Kotbagi November 28, 2023

Deepfakes are a type of deep AI that can synthetically generate convincing videos by manipulating facial features and voices. The danger associated with this AI comes from its susceptibility to being abused.

You see it, but can you believe it?

by Disha Gupta, Reporter November 28, 2023

Seeing something can no longer mean believing it. A decade ago, the concept of Artificial Intelligence (AI) manipulating human actions sounded far-fetched. Today, deepfake technology makes this idea a...

A Harker attendee rides Green Teams smoothie bike on Oct. 7 in the Auxiliary Gym. The club collaborated with the Harker Robotics team starting earlier this year to build zero-energy bike consisting of only upcycled materials.

Global Reset: Spinning sustainable smoothies

by Victor Gong and Mihir Kotbagi November 27, 2023

Making a smoothie typically involves plugging in a powerful blender into an outlet, dumping in an assortment of fruits and pressing down on the lid. The blade instantly accelerates to thousands of revolutions...

Green Team Secretary Sophie Grace Degoricija (11) waters a patch of grass in Martial Cottle Community Garden on Nov. 4. The club spent the day watering plants, weeding and clearing out mulch from the land.

STEM Spotlight: Green Team attends volunteer gardening trip

by Kinnera Mulam, Co-Winged Post Editor-in-Chief November 15, 2023

Green Team attended a community service trip to tend to the Martial Cottle Community Garden in San Jose on Nov. 4. Accompanied by Green Team Adviser Diana Moss and upper school English teacher Nikolai...

The problem of sleep deprivation has become an epidemic among adolescents. Caught in the destructive cycle of staying up late to finish school work, high school students suffer from many negative consequences such as an inability to focus or regulate their emotions.

Waking up from the sleep deprivation cycle

by Eva Cheng, Reporter November 13, 2023

In the back corner of the classroom, a student slumps forward in their chair, their eyelids fluttering shut for a moment before they catch themself and snap to attention. The seconds on the clock tick...

Dark side of the moon: India’s space program soars to new heights

Dark side of the moon: India’s space program soars to new heights

by Victor Gong and Mihir Kotbagi November 1, 2023

India has unveiled ambitious plans to send an astronaut to the moon by 2040 and establish its own space station, "Bharatiya Antariksha Station," by 2035, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced on...

Various element samples sit in the new periodic table installment in Nichols Hall. “Weve been trying to make the building a place that invites students to come and learn more than what were teaching them in the classroom,” upper school science department head Anita Chetty said.

New periodic table in Nichols Hall contains real element samples

by Vivek Moorjani, Reporter October 13, 2023

A new periodic table exhibit was installed on the upper level of Nichols Hall after the 2022-2023 school year’s final exams. The table offers students an opportunity to see physical samples of several...

Otter 841 clings onto a vibrant surfboard in the waters off Santa Cruzs Cowell Beach in June. Many surfers have reported encounters with this otter outlaw, and authorities are still searching for her.

Otter 841: The audacious, surfboard-snatching menace

by Victor Gong, Co-STEM Editor September 26, 2023

As surfers ride the waves in the cool blue waters of Santa Cruz, one omnipresent threat looms over them all — an overly-social, delinquent sea otter. The aquatic outlaw, which local officials call Otter...

Despite changes and improvements, Wi-Fi at Harker is sometimes unreliable and unstable, disconnecting at inconvenient times. These disconnections create disruptions both in and out of the classroom.

What’s happening with Harker Wi-Fi?

by Eva Cheng and Victor Gong September 19, 2023

Wi-Fi: a magical gateway to the Internet, a necessity in everyday tasks, the enabler of everything online. In today’s day and age, web browsing, gaming and video calling all require wifi or internet...

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