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Google through the Ages

Google updates logo, continuing rebranding

by Prameela Kottapalli and Meilan Steimle September 9, 2015

Continuing the trend of rebranding, Google released a new logo on Tuesday, after its status-change to a sub-company of Alphabet in August. Alphabet is the newly-created umbrella company that encompasses...

Senior Adele Li, Vice President of WiSTEM and Co-Preisdent of Research Club, holds up a poster with a "ILookLikeAScientist" hashtag, mimicking the Internet viral campaign of "#ILookLikeAnEngineer". The viral hashtag first appeared to combat stereotypes and the gender gap in STEM fields.

#ILookLikeAnEngineer: Fighting the gender gap

by Vineet Kosaraju and Brian Park September 6, 2015

When Isis Wenger, a 22-year-old software engineer at San Francisco-based tech company OneLogin, appeared in a company recruitment ad on Aug. 1, she probably did not expect to become a part of a viral campaign. After...

Chemistry teacher Andrew Irvine holds a jar of uranium oxide. He infused ceramic with depleted uranium to great a unique yellow glaze.

Chemistry teacher infuses ceramic with depleted uranium

by Vivek Bharadwaj, Winged Post Editor-in-Chief September 2, 2015

Tick. Tick. Tick. Tick. Chemistry teacher Andrew Irvine holds a clicking black box a few inches away from a pastel-yellow, glazed ceramic plate just a little larger than the size of his hand. The face...

Students marvel at the sublime beauty of the Arctic landscape.

On top of the world

by Vineet Kosaraju, STEM editor September 2, 2015

The natural snow-capped mountains rise slowly out of the fog as senior Stephanie Huang’s plane prepares to land, completing the small one hour journey from Norway to a settlement in Svalbard called Longyearbyen....

A statue of a Catalina Island fox. This fox is endangered and found only at Catalina Island.

Endangered species in California

by Kaitlin Hsu, Wingspan Staff Writer September 2, 2015

From behind a thicket of bamboo shrubs, a glimmer of gold catches the tourist's eye. He shuffles quietly, making his way closer and closer. Peering past the bushes, the tourist sees a tortoise with a variegated...

The Wujing coal-fired power plant in Shanghai emits harmful carbon dioxide into the air. Obama's Clean Power Plan aims to reduce the amount of greenhouse gas emissions by 32 percent by 2030.

Obama announces Clean Power Plan

by Ashley Jiang, Winged Post Photo Editor September 1, 2015

President Obama’s finalized Clean Power Plan was released to the public at a White House press conference on Aug. 3. The plan aims to reduce the amount of greenhouse gas emissions by 32 percent from...

The Team: Juniors Evani Radiya-Dixit, Neymika Jain, Venkat Sankar, Kai-Siang Ang, Manan Shah, Peter Wu, Arjun Subramaniam and David Zhu, took second place at the National TEAMS competition in Grapevine, Texas. This is their second year participating in TEAMS.

Juniors place second in national TEAMS competition

by Raveena Kapatkar and Maya Kumar September 1, 2015

Eight Upper School juniors placed second in the nation in the 9th and 10th grade division of in the Tests of Engineering Aptitude, Mathematics and Science (TEAMS) competition in Grapevine, Texas on June...

Talon releases interactive features on Aurasma

Talon releases interactive features on Aurasma

by Adrian Chu, Reporter May 27, 2015

Talon released their 2014-2015 public “Auras” on Aurasma, a free augmented reality app, for the yearbook, “But Wait…there’s more.” Aurasma, developed by London-based software company Autonomy,...

Senior Serena Wang (top left) participated in Stanford ProCo 2014. This year's contest will take place this Sunday at Stanford University.

Upper school programmers head to Stanford ProCo

by Sahana Srinivasan, Assistant STEM Editor May 18, 2015

Upper school students will participate in Stanford ProCo 2015, a programming contest for Bay Area high school students, which will take place at Stanford University this Sunday. The competition is open...

iShoot

by Praveen Batra and Ashley Jiang May 18, 2015

Those photos below - they were all shot with an iPhone 6. Phones such as the iPhone 6 and Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge are putting quality photography in the hands of more people. Smartphone...

Learning management systems updated

Learning management systems updated

by Vineet Kosaraju and Justin Su May 16, 2015

Harker recently released several updates to their online coursework, homework and gradebook management systems, Athena2 and PCR, on April 21 and April 30 respectively. The administration will be moving...

Neil Movva (12), who qualified to participate in CSSF, explains his project at the 10th annual research symposium.

Beyond Synopsys

by Sahana Srinivasan, Reporter May 16, 2015

Nine Upper School students qualified to participate in the California State Science Fair (CSSF) and three of those nine qualified for the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF). Nitya...

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