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Green and White Day added to Spirit Week

by Tara Parimi, Copy Editor April 29, 2015

Green and White Day, a new tradition in which students can dress in school colors in addition to wearing their class T-shirts, has been announced for Friday of Spirit Week. In an email sent out by the...

This graphic shows the amount of students signed up for various courses for summer.

Students polish their skills in preparation for the upcoming school year

by Adrian Chu and Jackie Gao April 29, 2015

Signups are now open for Harker’s summer courses. Nine courses are offered for credits, such as chemistry, biology, and programming, and additional 39 courses are available for students to choose based...

Students try new dress code

by Raveena Kapatkar and Elisabeth Siegel April 29, 2015

The Upper School Dress Code Committee (DCC) recently announced an updated version of the dress code, which includes the allowance of T-shirts without logos, skirts and dresses that meet “fingertip”...

Manthra Panchapakesan (12) receives an award at ICDC 2014. This year, 28 Upper School students traveled to ICDC 2015 in Orlando, Florida.

Upper School students to travel to Orlando for international business conference

by Praveen Batra and Tara Parimi April 29, 2015

Twenty-eight members of the Upper School's DECA chapter will travel to Orlando, Florida to compete in the annual International Career Development Conference (ICDC) from April 25-28. “ICDC is the culminating...

Teachers Nicholas Manjoine and Dr. Katherine Schafer join students in folding cranes for nurse Clare Elchert. Students and faculty alike worked together for a week to fold cranes outside Manzanita.

Cranes for Nurse Elchert

by Kshithija Mulam, Winged Post Photo Editor April 29, 2015

Students and faculty joined together to fold cranes for nurse Clare Elchert, who is on medical leave receiving treatment for non-Hodgkins lymphoma through the summer. “For one, I think it’s a beautiful...

Aaron Huang (12), Ashwath Thirumalai (12), Steven Wang (12) and Leo Yu (12) advanced to the NEC semifinal round, where they will compete with teams from all other US states and a team from Southern California.

Upper School seniors compete in the National Economics Challenge national semifinals

by Aditya Varshney and Derek Yen April 29, 2015

A team of four seniors represented Northern California in the national semifinal competition of the National Economics Challenge (NEC) on April 14, taking a test to qualify for the final round of the competition. The...

Eesha Chona (11), David Jin (11), Abhinav Ketineni (11) and Jasmine Liu (11) prepare for the Public Forum TOC by holding a practice debate outside Manzanita.

Debaters prepare for Tournament of Champions at the University of Kentucky

by Aditya Varshney and Ashley Jiang April 29, 2015

Nineteen members of Upper School Speech and Debate have been chosen to participate in the Tournament of Champions (TOC) on April 25 at the University of Kentucky. A national invitational, the TOC is...

Upper School performers take “Into the Woods” to Edinburgh Festival Fringe

by Sahana Srinivasan, Reporter April 29, 2015

Upper School students performed in this year’s spring musical, “Into the Woods,” last week at Blackford. “We were all nervous [before the show], but it all turned out to be pretty good,” Anika...

The books for recreate reading are on display by the entrance of the library. Juniors chose their titles first, followed by the sophomores and freshmen.

Students sign up for summer Recreate Reading books

by Lauren Russell, Reporter April 29, 2015

Students chose from an array of 65 different books of varying genres for Recreate Reading last week. With titles ranging from the zombie-themed “World War Z,” to a biography of Einstein by Walter...

Middle and upper school orchestras perform at annual Spring Concert

by Praveen Batra, Reporter April 29, 2015

The upper and middle school orchestras performed in the annual Spring Concert at the Mexican Heritage Theater on April 10. In the first half of the concert, the sixth grade orchestra performed, followed...

Students try food at the 2014 GEO fair. This year's GEO fair's date is set to take place at the end of April.

GEO Multicultural Fair set to take place at end of April

by Lauren Russell and Vijay Bharadwaj April 28, 2015

The annual Global Multicultural fair, hosted by the Global Empowerment Outreach (GEO) club, is set to take place towards the end of April. The fair is organized by the club for students to come by and...

Spring Rally ends Spirit Week

by Kshithija Mulam, Winged Post Photo Editor April 27, 2015

Spirit Club hosted the annual Spring Rally on Friday for freshmen, sophomores, juniors and seniors to end Spirit Week today on Davis Field at 11 a.m. The rally was the final event of this year’s Spirit...

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