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Frosh Kendra Zhao folds a paper origami during Key Club and Origami Club's meeting on Tuesday. Students made a collective of 50 cards and origami animals.

Origami Club and Key Club collaborate to make handmade crafts

by Risa Chokhawala, Assistant Opinions Editor November 16, 2024

Origami Club and Key Club worked together to make cards and origami animals that will be donated to children in hospitals through Cardz for Kidz, a nonprofit organization, on Tuesday. Over 20 students...

Senior Cindy Yu participates in the “Real Talk with Students and for Students” fishbowl discussion. “I saw that it was a no judgment zone, and there was a very high standard of respect," Cindy said.

Students take part in community conversations

by Samuel Tong, Assistant News Editor November 16, 2024

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Director Patricia Burrows hosted a “Real Talk with Students and for Students” discussion, inviting students to contemplate various challenges currently facing local...

Student Diversity Coalition representative Elie Ahluwalia (11) analyzes a bar graph during the media literacy workshop. The graphs contained some of the clues necessary to solve an escape room-style puzzle.

Inaugural Day of Understanding promotes empathy inside media world

by Lily Peng, Samuel Tong, and Kairui Sun November 16, 2024

Day of Understanding invited 60 students for a full day of workshops, speaker events and a catered international buffet at the upper school on Nov. 8. The Student Diversity Coalition, along with a dozen...

Former CNN foreign correspondent Atia Abawi speaks to a Newspaper journalism class on Nov. 7. "Sometimes people call you naive as a journalist because you want to make a difference," Abawi said.

Award-winning journalist Atia Abawi speaks to journalism class

by Victoria Li and Heather Wang November 16, 2024

Foreign correspondent and author Atia Abawi spoke about her journalism career to one period of the Newspaper classes on Nov. 7 in the journalism room. Abawi started reporting after graduating from college...

Vishwa Vijay (10), Aarush Vailaya (12) and Claire Tian (10) laugh at a joke before the exam begins. 150 students convened at the Auxiliary Gym before 8 a.m. that morning to take the exam.

Record 150 students take annual AMC exams

by Samuel Tong and Chelsea Xie November 9, 2024

150 students took the American Mathematics Competition (AMC) 10 and 12A exams in the Auxiliary Gym from 8 a.m. to 9:15 a.m. on Wednesday. The 75-minute AMC exam, hosted by the Mathematical Association...

Annie Yu (9) leans over a pumpkin, examining it carefully. The frosh's pumpkin carving ended up in third place.

Annual pumpkin carving contest encourages class bonding and spirit

by Cynthia Xie and Lindsay Li November 1, 2024

Students participated in the pumpkin carving contest and cheered on their classmates in front of Manzanita Hall during long lunch on Oct. 29. The juniors and seniors tied for first, the sophomores came...

Assistant to Upper School Division Head Michelle Martinez holds up a book at Book Blog's table outside Nichols Hall. Martinez manages logistics for Cake Friday each month.

Book Blog sweetens reading with Cake Friday collaboration

by Jeremy Peng, Copy Editor October 31, 2024

Book Blog hosted its third annual book swap on Thursday and Friday. The club displayed books outside Manzanita Hall at lunch and outside Nichols Hall after school.  Students and staff browsed a selection...

Panelist Rowena Tomaneng shares her unique perspective on reproductive rights in the context of higher education. She emphasized the importance of  educating people about these rights in higher education institutions.

Town hall tackles reproductive rights and encourages community action

by Lily Shi and Chelsea Xie October 25, 2024

Assemblymember Evan Low hosted a panel on reproductive rights, inviting local residents and three experts to San Jose City College on Oct. 19. The panel emphasized the need to protect and expand reproductive...

Sophomores Megha Unny and Sophia Zhu laugh while chatting in the quad. Students relaxed outside to take a break from dancing and play cornhole or foosbal.

Students dance and rejoice at annual homecoming dance

by Cynthia Xie, Chelsea Xie, and Samuel Tong October 24, 2024

The annual Homecoming dance invited students for a night of music and festivity in the Auxiliary Gym on Saturday from 7 to 10 p.m. Harker Spirit Leadership Team volunteers arrived early that morning...

Sophomores Grace Fu and Adrian Roufas laugh as they shuffle through pumpkins. Both of them bought pumpkins for themselves, with Grace choosing a small orange one and Adrian selecting a mushroom-shaped one.

HSLT and SAB select pumpkins in spirit-filled excursion at Spina Farms

by Lily Peng, Reporter October 23, 2024

Harker Spirit Leadership Team and Student Activities Board members picked pumpkins at Spina Farms last Friday in preparation for the pumpkin carving competition on Oct. 29. Representatives from...

Sophomores Saahithi Koneru and Joyce He write letters to individuals currently in jail. Amnesty International planned to mail the letters to the victims as a sign of support and to advocate for their release.

Club Corner: Amnesty Club counteracts censorship by writing letters of support

by Lily Peng, Reporter October 17, 2024

Amnesty Club wrote letters to governments and government-silenced individuals around the world to promote social justice in their first club meeting on Oct. 10. They chose to support a list of 13 artists...

Sophomore Samaara Patil takes a picture of the San Francisco Giants 2012 World Series Ring. The Giants have won three World Series titles: in 2010, 2012 and 2014.

Students visit Oracle Park in CareerConnect field trip

by Cynthia Xie, Reporter October 15, 2024

Eight students learned about the world of sports business at Oracle Park, the home stadium of the San Francisco Giants, on Oct. 7. Bill Schlough, the Chief Information Officer of the Giants and former...

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