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Varsity boys water polo crushes Mountain View 18-4 on senior night

Varsity boys water polo crushes Mountain View 18-4 on senior night

by Eva Cheng, Alison Yang, and Suhani Gupta October 29, 2024

Boys varsity water polo celebrated senior night with an 18-4 victory over Mountain View High School on Oct. 22. As the last home league game of their high school careers, seniors Rajes Apte, Oskar Baumgarte,...

Gearing up for competition season with Robotics

Gearing up for competition season with Robotics

by Ashley Mo, STEM Editor October 26, 2024

Harker Robotics puts in countless hours finalizing their robot for competitions, from refining the physical parts and internal code to coordinating logistics for the 52-student team. Take a peek into...

Remakes and sequels send mixed messages to movie enthusiasts

Remakes and sequels send mixed messages to movie enthusiasts

by Eva Cheng, Suhani Gupta, and Jeremy Peng October 20, 2024

Remakes and sequels dominate the movie industry, with many new movies continuing well-known franchises. These movies range in quality, from the critically acclaimed Inside Out 2 to the ill-received Mean...

Research Revelations Episode 5: Shellfish safety and prediction systems with Victoria Ma

Research Revelations Episode 5: Shellfish safety and prediction systems with Victoria Ma

by Charlize Wang and Ashley Mo October 8, 2024

This is the fifth installment of Research Revelations: Conversations with our student researchers, a podcast where Aquila staff members talk to student researchers about their projects and research goals....

Live coverage: Harker challenges Anzar High School for Homecoming football game

Live coverage: Harker challenges Anzar High School for Homecoming football game

Final score --- Eagles 35, Hawks 0 8:30 p.m. “The whole team executed, we made strong plays and the defense was electric,” Pedro said. “It was an intense game. They were a physical team, and we...

Breaking down basics of spirit

Breaking down basics of spirit

by Lily Peng, Chelsea Xie, and Elizabeth Zhang October 1, 2024

Spirit Week is underway! Don’t know much about Spirit? Curious about how to win points? Listen to Mirabelle Feng (12), Robert Fields (12), Leo Sobczyn (12), Leana Zhou (11), Ava Bhowmik (11), Ava...

How to bag a homecoming date

How to bag a homecoming date

by Eva Cheng, Minal Jalil, and Kairui Sun September 30, 2024

The weather is getting hot! Is your love life? Don’t fret! Our resident experts Eva Cheng, Minal Jalil and Kairui Sun are here to guide you along your date-bagging journey. Tune in for a lighthearted...

Campaign Conversations Episode 1: Harris and Trump take the stage in presidential debate

Campaign Conversations Episode 1: Harris and Trump take the stage in presidential debate

by Lily Shi and Jessica Hu September 25, 2024

This is the first installment of Campaign Conversations, where Aquila news editors Lily Shi and Jessica Hu discuss key events leading up to the 2024 presidential election with upper school community members....

Aquila’s guide to 8v8 football

by Eva Cheng and Tiffany Zhu August 30, 2024

Eva: Hi, I’m Eva. Tiffany: And I’m Tiffany. Eva: And we’re sports editors for Harker Aquila. Today we’re going to be explaining the basics of 8v8 football. To set the stage, how is it different...

Talk Around Campus: Election thoughts

Talk Around Campus: Election thoughts

by Lily Shi and Jessica Hu August 24, 2024

This year’s presidential election has been one of the most closely watched by the American people. From President Joe Biden and former President Donald J. Trump arguing about golf during a presidential...

Humans of Harker: Cooking with creativity

by Sidak Sanghari and Michelle Wei June 12, 2024

View the full transcript here: I started baking when I was pretty little actually. I think when I was five or six, I always wanted to help my mom bake stuff because she would make cookies or things...

Humans of Harker: Climbing with confidence

by Selina Xu, Aquila Co-Managing Editor June 12, 2024

View the full transcript here: Rock climbing is very much like a puzzle, you have to put all the holes together and figure out like, how you fit in the holes in the wall? And how do you get yourself...

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