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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

Humans of Harker: Multi-disciplined, multi-dimensional

by Alison Yang, Sidak Sanghari, Emma Milner, and Ella Guo June 24, 2025

View the full transcript here: Vyom Vidyarthi (‘25): My life is mostly academics, chess and sports. That pretty much covers it.  Ever since when you could first start playing interscholastic sports...

Humans of Harker: Continuous and differentiable

Humans of Harker: Continuous and differentiable

by Katerina Matta, Winged Post Editor-in-Chief June 24, 2025

“Don’t write my profile about math.” Despite skipping two grades in math as early as elementary school and spending years training for the competition math circuit, these were the first words...

Humans of Harker: Power in profiles

Humans of Harker: Power in profiles

by Aryana Bharali, Humans of Harker Managing Editor June 24, 2025

In a setting as fast-paced as Harker, it’s easy to overlook the beauty in personal stories — the small, human details that make a student more than just their résumé. But for senior Sidak Sanghari,...

Humans of Harker: Widening the aperture

Humans of Harker: Widening the aperture

by Katerina Matta, Winged Post Editor-in-Chief June 24, 2025

Stage lights filter through wisps of a performer’s hair mid-crescendo. A yellow-shirted sophomore suspends upside down in a spirit rally. A soccer player stretches forward, her foot barely grazing...

Humans of Harker: Sharing stories, striking serves

Humans of Harker: Sharing stories, striking serves

by Jonathan Xue, Humans of Harker Editor-in-Chief June 24, 2025

It’s human nature to gravitate towards that which comes easily. For senior Emma Milner, however, her life has been defined by a conscious choice to pursue the opposite. From nights spent editing...

I want my legacy to be that I helped people heal. There’s still so much more for me to learn, new people and experiences and communities I need to be exposed to. I think to positions I’ve been in where that type of work has benefitted me — I have a responsibility to try and bring that to others somehow," senior Katerina Matta said.

Humans of Harker: Uncovering life’s languages

by Alison Yang, Aquila Editor-in-Chief June 24, 2025

Surrounded by huge printouts of half-finished pages, hunched over a laptop with a progress spreadsheet fully in the red, focused on warring against typos and misaligned text wrap with a Sharpie, mildly...

“If you try to make everything perfect, you'll either run out of time or it'll end up not being natural. I learned to do things based on my intuition and stop limiting myself by overthinking about everything. Perfectionism only slows you down, so I learned to not be afraid. Sometimes crazy ideas are the ones that turn out to be the best one," senior Victor Gong said.

Humans of Harker: Journeying past perfection

by Sam Li, Features Editor June 24, 2025

Silence settles across the Winged Post newsroom as editors hover around glowing monitors, stuck on the front-page layout. Editor-in-Chief senior Victor Gong leans in, scanning his screen. Then, a spark:...

“We're in a world where we're very focused on ourselves and our own successes. It’s important to be able to stop and consider yourself in different ways. That's performing: considering yourself in different situations and being able to take that pause and breathe. You're helping yourself and you're serving others," senior Bhavya Srinivasan said.

Humans of Harker: Building the script for community

by Hima Thota, Aquila Managing Editor June 13, 2025

If you visited Menchie’s Frozen Yogurt this past summer for a sweet treat, chances are, you might’ve run into senior Bhavya Srinivasan. From organizing karaoke nights to meticulously curating short...

Humans of Harker: Crafting with care

Humans of Harker: Crafting with care

by Ella Guo, Humans of Harker Editor-in-Chief June 13, 2025

A peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Multiple shrimp. A pigeon. Although these might seem like random subjects, for senior Sophia Roufas, they are essential to her art. Through her artistic process,...

Humans of Harker: Scoring with strategy

Humans of Harker: Scoring with strategy

by Kendra Zhao, Reporter June 12, 2025

In a clear blue pool, two teams compete intensely for the yellow water polo ball, their powerful kicks keeping them afloat. Senior Caio Cammer rises above the water, preparing to throw the ball with...

Humans of Harker: Nets and networks

Humans of Harker: Nets and networks

by Lucas Huang, Reporter June 12, 2025

Resilient, curious and deeply passionate about AI, senior Kai Hong is a student who brings both heart and humor to everything he does. After moving from China to the U.S. in 2020, Kai embraced the...

Humans of Harker: Painting with purpose

Humans of Harker: Painting with purpose

by Sidak Sanghari, Humans of Harker Editor-in-Chief June 12, 2025

  A once blank canvas is now painted with color, the vibrancy of the watercolors covering the patches of white. But some still remain — places unpainted, still open with opportunity. Leaving...

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