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During lunch on Tuesday, Zina Jawadi (11) donates to the road safety awareness campaign. The L.I.F.E. board will host the fundraiser throughout the week in order to expand outreach and awareness about the importance of attentive driving.

L.I.F.E. board fundraises for road safety awareness

by Jonathan Dai & Meena Chetty February 21, 2013

This week, the Living with Intent Focus and Enthusiasm (L.I.F.E.) board is hosting a road safety awareness campaign on campus in order to inform students about the importance of driving carefully. After...

Harker Business Club (HBC) advisor Mary Mortlock talks to students about the upcoming States conference in March. While many clubs utilized the extra club period time to arrange meetings, some students believed it was not productive due to conflicting meetings with other clubs.

Second special club day session allotted for club meetings

by Allison Sun February 20, 2013

As a joint effort between Student Council and the administration, the second club day of the school year was held today. To accommodate the 30-minute club period, each class was shortened by five minutes. Many...

Senior Emily Wang won a Gold Key from California Scholastic Writing and Arts Competition for her creative writing piece titled "Missed Connections And The Secret Of Mattering.” Emily and Stephanie Chen (11) were the two winners of a Gold Key at the Upper School, among other participants who received a Silver Key or Honorable Mention.

Writing competition: Students recognized for compositional flair

by Alyssa Amick February 20, 2013

Over break, eight students received the news that they had won a Gold Key, Silver Key, or Honorable Mention for a piece that they submitted to the California Scholastic Writing and Arts Competition. English...

British students and six Upper School students pose for a picture at the conference stage. The conference lasted two days and hosted students from Harker, London, and Cambridge.

Students travel to England for science conference

by Vasudha Rengarajan February 19, 2013

On February 10, six members of The Triple Helix club boarded their flight for England, where they stayed for a week to attend a science conference. Science teachers Anita Chetty and Dr. Eric Nelson...

Sebastian Bäverstam, accompanied on the piano by Pei-Shan Lee, expresses the emotional range of the piece. “Music is to communicate emotions and hopefully inspire something in the audience,” Lee said. “I think that’s why we perform.”

Cellist Sebastian Bäverstam completes 2012-2013 Concert Series

by Neha Sunil February 9, 2013

While most students had already started February break, a few orchestra members stayed late on Friday night to watch the performance of cellist Sebastian Bäverstam, the third and final performer of the...

Holocaust book author speaks to history classes

Holocaust book author speaks to history classes

by Nikhil Dilip and Shannon Su February 9, 2013

The History Department invited Alexandra Zapruder, author of Holocaust book Salvaged Pages, to speak to history classes about Holocaust diaries on Friday, February 8 in Nichols Hall auditorium. Zapruder’s...

Seniors Raghav Sehtia and David Lindars check their list again to make sure the students receive all of their chocolates and roses. ASB members helped ensure the proper delivery of Valentine grams to advisories.

Student council distributes Valentine’s Day grams

by Natasha Mayor February 8, 2013

For the second year in a row, student council members hand-delivered Valentine’s Day grams to students during advisory today. With the romantic holiday just around the corner, many students wanted...

Sophomore Neil Chitkara picks up his trash as he leaves lunch. He is one of many students who have taken the student council's presentation about cleaning the lunch area to heart.

Marked decrease of leftover food in response to student council video

by Darian Edvalson February 7, 2013

Following an announcement by student council during school meeting, students, faculty, and kitchen staff alike are noticing a decrease in dirty dishes left strewn over Manzanita Hall at the end of lunch. On...

Eagle Express Customer Kunal Mehta (9) reaches for a sweatshirt to try on. The Eagle Express had $350 in sales within two days of its opening.

Grand opening of new student store Eagle Express

by Vivek Bharadwaj February 5, 2013

What was once a dilapidated kitchen storage space and a snack bar at different points in time has been transformed into a room filled with “Harker swag,” as the Eagle Express student store enters its...

Sophomore Zoë Woehrmann and her buddy Fabienne Ghirarden pose with another Swiss exchange student Lena Kolly and Vivian Isenberg (10) outside of Manzanita Hall. The Swiss students arrived in the United States last Saturday and will be leaving next Tuesday.

Swiss students attend Upper School for exchange program

by Natalie Simonian February 5, 2013

Nine students from the Collége de Gambach in Fribourg, Switzerland arrived at the Upper School this Monday to attend classes and experience a typical week in the life of an American teenager. Activities...

Junior Vikas Bhetanabhotla heatedly debates with the other team about their solution. The USAYPT was a two-day event that brought together many young physicists from across the world.

Physics fight: Upper School team wins second place

by Rahul Jayaraman February 3, 2013

On February 1 and 2, the Upper School placed second out of seven participating teams in the 2013 United States Invitational Young Physicists Tournament (USIYPT) held at the Saratoga campus. Many international...

Honor Council member Maneesha Panja (11) helps conduct the freshman elections as she directs students to vote. The elections were held in the journalism room during both lunches on Friday, February 1.

Freshman Honor Council elections held at lunch

by Shay Lari-Hosain February 2, 2013

Elections for the incoming freshman representatives of the Honor Council were held today in the journalism room during both lunches. Three days prior to the elections, the candidates delivered two-minute...

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