Top New Tech: New products unveiled for upcoming year
by Anmol Velagapudi, Reporter
September 20, 2019
The world of tech is an everlasting process where new innovations come about to replace the old ones. With 2019 being nearly over, scientists and companies are ready to unveil their new projects within the upcoming years. Computers have since evolved from the giant containers they used to be held in a...
New year, new sleep: understanding sleep cycles in the transition back into school mode
by Arya Maheshwari and Erica Cai
August 30, 2019
Drowsy eyes and long yawns make numerous appearances at the upper school everyday, often with increased frequency around the time of final exams or capstone projects. But in these opening days of the school year, which lack most of the standard suspects for sleepless nights, the pronounced yawns and drowsi...
Mother Nature’s snow cone
by Erica Cai and Catherine Feng
August 30, 2019
Despite the brutal heat of summer, snow exists during this season at elevations above 9,500 feet in Yosemite National Park, but its appearance may not be what people expect: instead of the powdery white goodness often seen on mountaintops, this snow has a startling pink hue. This strange phen...
Science internship introduces high schoolers to research
by Anna Vazhaeparambil and Muthu Panchanatham
August 30, 2019
Whether they are traveling all over the world or are at home studying for the August SATs, Harker students do a variety of different activities over the duration of summer vacation. For sixteen high schoolers in particular, their break was spent at the Summer Internship Program (SIP), an eight-week lo...
Neural Networks at Harker: a Quadrennial Spectacle
by Jessie Wang, Senior Copy Editor
August 30, 2019
Post-AP Computer Science electives at Harker are offered on a four-year rotating basis, and cover such topics as Computer Architecture and Expert Systems. This year, Harker is offering ATCS: Neural Networks. It’s a semester course with a pre- or co- requisite of Calculus and a prerequisite of APCS: DS ...
Harker students organize Opportunity X science fair to showcase middle schoolers’ projects
by Arely Sun, Reporter
June 4, 2019
Students of Opportunity X, a student-founded program that teaches students at underprivileged schools about science research, gathered in the Dr. Roberto Cruz Alum Rock Branch Library community center to share their projects at the program’s first science fair on May 25. The participants had been working...
Measles Outbreak: What You Need to Know
by Lucy Ge, Reporter
May 26, 2019
The first version of the measles vaccine was developed over half a century ago by John Enders who, in 1963, successfully created the vaccine out of a specific strain of measles. Measles was reported eliminated, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in 2000. Yet with upward...
The Green New Deal
by Arya Maheshwari, Varsha Rammohan, Lucy Ge, and Michael Eng
April 27, 2019
The icecaps are melting. Wildfires and polar vortices are breaking out. The ocean is acidifying. Category 5 hurricanes are ripping through the U.S. seemingly every year. In the face of looming disaster, the Green New Deal (GND) attempts to address the increasingly detrimental effects of climate change. ...
14 years of celebrating innovation and inquiry: diving into a Harker research tradition
by Saloni Shah, Asst. Humans of Harker Editor
April 27, 2019
The upper school was buzzing with action from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, April 13, as the Women in STEM club (WiSTEM) hosted the 14th annual Harker Research Symposium with the theme “Our Survival: Saving the Planet and Healing Ourselves.” This popular community-wide event has grown exponentially from...
STEM Scene: Online Edition
by Erica Cai, Reporter
April 21, 2019
Measles outbreak The number of measles cases and outbreaks this year has already passed the total amount of last year’s cases. From January 1 to April 11, 555 cases of measles have been reported in 20 states, including California, and it is the second-greatest number of cases in the U.S. since measles was eliminated in ...
14th annual research symposium encourages climate action
by Arya Maheshwari, STEM Editor
April 14, 2019
The upper school's Women in STEM (WiSTEM) club hosted the 14th annual Harker Research Symposium on Saturday at the upper school, with events and activities that revolved around this year's climate theme titled "Our Survival: Saving the Planet and Healing Ourselves." The schedule for the symposium,...
Climate Narrative Project founder shares career story in upper school visit
by Nicole Tian and Arya Maheshwari
March 24, 2019
Jeff Biggers, the founder of the Climate Narrative Project, a project dedicated to the convergence of science and the humanities to effectively communicate the message of climate change, visited the upper school on Feb. 8 and participated in the faculty retreat over the following weekend. As part of ...