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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

2048 takes the stage as newest hit game

2048 takes the stage as newest hit game

by Stanley Zhao and Juhi Gupta March 26, 2014

Groups of students gathered around with laptops and vigorously started mashing their keyboards. Was an English paper due next period? Was the programming assignment that difficult? No, it was the math...

Q&A with Mary Roach

Q&A with Mary Roach

by Vineet Kosaraju March 25, 2014

Aquila: Our journalism program has just started doing long form journalism pieces and going more in depth into the pieces. We were really hoping that as a professional in the field of journalism, that...

Humans of Harker: Issue 5

Humans of Harker: Issue 5

by Juhi Gupta, Multimedia Edtor March 25, 2014

In the style of Brandon Stanton’s Humans of New York, Aquila highlights the notable pastimes of random students from the Upper School campus. Check out Brandon Aguilar (11), Emma Doherty (10), Avinash...

Classic viral Youtube videos

Classic viral Youtube videos

by Mercedes Chien & Vasudha Rengarajan March 25, 2014

Labs and demonstrations ignite enthusiasm in students

Labs and demonstrations ignite enthusiasm in students

by Elisabeth Siegel March 24, 2014

“And 3...2…1!” Boom. These are not the sounds you would normally hear in any sort of academic setting, but an exception arises in the form of science classes at the Upper School—more specifically,...

Writer Mary Roach spoke to the first period journalism class on March 17, sharing her experiences as author and journalist.

Writer Mary Roach videochats with journalism students

by Vasudha Rengarajan, Online Features Editor March 24, 2014

The woman’s image popped suddenly into view, her short silvery hair sweeping across her cheeks as she leaned into the camera. Watching her projection on the board, the first period journalism class jotted...

Net neutrality’s potential demise

Net neutrality’s potential demise

by Shay Lari-Hosain March 24, 2014

The contentious topic of network neutrality has surfaced into the public discourse once again. In January, a federal appeals court determined that the Federal Communications Commission (F.C.C.) has exceeded...

Inside the New York Times printing press

Inside the New York Times printing press

by Alyssa Amick, Managing Editor March 20, 2014

COLLEGE POINT, New York -- Every day the New York Times printing press at College Point, NY, prints over 300,000 copies of its daily paper. To most, how the company does this is a mystery. A guided...

Russia and Ukraine Conflict

by Riya Chandra, Alexis Gauba, and Meilan Steimle March 15, 2014

Crimea's parliament voted for a referendum to join Russia on Thursday. Crimea, where Russian troops have been stationed for over a week, is currently an autonomous region of Ukraine, but 59 percent of...

Hoscars Preview

by Maya Jeyendran and Melina Nakos March 12, 2014

This year’s Hoscars, a talent show combined with GEO’s multicultural event, will take place in the gym on Thursday, March 27. Because audition forms were due March 7, students have already started...

So what is net neutrality?

March 12, 2014

Columbia Law Professor and author of Who Controls the Internet and The Master Switch Tim Wu coined the term “net neutrality” in 2003. In an exclusive phone interview with The Winged Post, Wu defined...

Around the World in a Day

Around the World in a Day

by Priscilla Pan March 12, 2014

The sun beats down on students living in the Southern Hemisphere, many of whom flock indoors for an “icy-pole” to escape the humidity or outside to bask in the summer sun. Meanwhile, those living up...

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