![“[Building nerf blasters] became this outlet of creativity for me that hasn't been matched by anything else. The process [of] making a build complete to your desire is such a painstakingly difficult process, but I've had to learn from [the skills needed from] soldering to proper painting. There's so many different options for everything, if you think about it, it exists. The best part is [that] if it doesn't exist, you can build it yourself," Ishaan Parate said.](https://harkeraquila.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/DSC_8149-900x604.jpg)
![“When I came into high school, I was ready to be a follower. But DECA was a game changer for me. It helped me overcome my fear of public speaking, and it's played such a major role in who I've become today. To be able to successfully lead a chapter of 150 students, an officer team and be one of the upperclassmen I once really admired is something I'm [really] proud of,” Anvitha Tummala ('21) said.](https://harkeraquila.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Screen-Shot-2021-07-25-at-9.50.05-AM-900x594.png)
![“I think getting up in the morning and having a sense of purpose [is exciting]. I think without a certain amount of drive, life is kind of obsolete and mundane, and I think having that every single day is what makes each day unique and kind of makes life exciting,” Neymika Jain (12) said.](https://harkeraquila.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Screen-Shot-2017-06-03-at-4.54.16-PM.png)
![“My slogan is ‘slow feet, don’t eat, and I’m hungry.’ You need to run fast to get where you are–you aren't going to get those championships if you aren't fast,” Angel Cervantes (12) said. “I want to do well in school on my tests and in track and win championships for my team. I live by that, [and] I can do that anywhere: in the classroom or on the field.”](https://harkeraquila.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/DSC5146-900x601.jpg)
![“[Volleyball has] taught me how to fall correctly, and another thing it taught is that you don’t have to be the best at something to be good at it. If you just hit the ball in a smart way, then it still scores points and you’re good at it. You could be a background player and still make a much bigger impact on the team than you would think,” Anya Gert (’20) said.](https://harkeraquila.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/AnnaGert_JinTuan_HoHPhotoEdited-600x900.jpeg)
![“I'm not nearly there yet, but [my confidence has] definitely been getting better since I was pretty shy and timid coming into Harker my freshman year. I know that there's a lot of people that are really confident in what they do, and I really admire them. Everyone's so driven and that has really pushed me to kind of try to find my own place in high school and be more confident,” Alyssa Huang (’20) said.](https://harkeraquila.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/AlyssaHuang_EmilyChen_HoHPhoto-900x749.jpeg)
Editors’ Note (Issue 2)
Esha Gohil & Michelle Liu
Winged Post Editors-in-Chief Michelle Liu (12) and Emily Tan (12) hold up the newspaper initials along with Managing Editor Mark Hu (12).
October 10, 2021
We hope the first month of school has been going well for you all!
Here at Winged Post Headquarters, we’ve kept our eye on both big international stories and local feature pieces. As our school lives ramp up, we want to continue being the first line of Harker history by documenting the story of our campus, and we hope you enjoy seeing your first month at school represented in paper and ink.
You may have noticed some recurring titles with logos in the paper: “Global Reset,” “Pulse of the People” and more. These are our repeaters: broad topics that we feel are necessary to cover in every issue of the paper. We wanted to dedicate a section of our STEM pages to climate change, a pressing and pervasive issue affecting our society, hence the creation of our repeater “Global Reset”—so you can expect to see its blue and green globe logo at the top of a STEM page in each issue. With every iteration of a repeater, we deepen our coverage of the topic as a whole.
But at the end of the day, as always, we create this paper for you guys, the Harker community— not ourselves. We welcome reader input, so please feel free to reach out to us at [email protected] with either a Letter to the Editor or with a request to write a guest column that may be featured in the Winged Post, on Harker Aquila, or both. We would love to hear from you—yes you!—about your thoughts on the paper. Can’t wait to hear what you think!
