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A Harker attendee rides Green Team's smoothie bike on Oct. 7 in the Auxiliary Gym. The club collaborated with the Harker Robotics team starting earlier this year to build zero-energy bike consisting of only upcycled materials.

Global Reset: Spinning sustainable smoothies

by Victor Gong and Mihir Kotbagi November 27, 2023

Making a smoothie typically involves plugging in a powerful blender into an outlet, dumping in an assortment of fruits and pressing down on the lid. The blade instantly accelerates to thousands of revolutions...

Green Team Secretary Sophie Grace Degoricija (11) waters a patch of grass in Martial Cottle Community Garden on Nov. 4. The club spent the day watering plants, weeding and clearing out mulch from the land.

STEM Spotlight: Green Team attends volunteer gardening trip

by Kinnera Mulam, Co-Winged Post Editor-in-Chief November 15, 2023

Green Team attended a community service trip to tend to the Martial Cottle Community Garden in San Jose on Nov. 4. Accompanied by Green Team Adviser Diana Moss and upper school English teacher Nikolai...

The problem of sleep deprivation has become an epidemic among adolescents. Caught in the destructive cycle of staying up late to finish school work, high school students suffer from many negative consequences such as an inability to focus or regulate their emotions.

Waking up from the sleep deprivation cycle

by Eva Cheng, Reporter November 13, 2023

In the back corner of the classroom, a student slumps forward in their chair, their eyelids fluttering shut for a moment before they catch themself and snap to attention. The seconds on the clock tick...

Dark side of the moon: India’s space program soars to new heights

Dark side of the moon: India’s space program soars to new heights

by Victor Gong and Mihir Kotbagi November 1, 2023

India has unveiled ambitious plans to send an astronaut to the moon by 2040 and establish its own space station, "Bharatiya Antariksha Station," by 2035, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced on...

Various element samples sit in the new periodic table installment in Nichols Hall. “We've been trying to make the building a place that invites students to come and learn more than what we're teaching them in the classroom,” upper school science department head Anita Chetty said.

New periodic table in Nichols Hall contains real element samples

by Vivek Moorjani, Reporter October 13, 2023

A new periodic table exhibit was installed on the upper level of Nichols Hall after the 2022-2023 school year’s final exams. The table offers students an opportunity to see physical samples of several...

Otter 841 clings onto a vibrant surfboard in the waters off Santa Cruz's Cowell Beach in June. Many surfers have reported encounters with this otter outlaw, and authorities are still searching for her.

Otter 841: The audacious, surfboard-snatching menace

by Victor Gong, Co-STEM Editor September 26, 2023

As surfers ride the waves in the cool blue waters of Santa Cruz, one omnipresent threat looms over them all — an overly-social, delinquent sea otter. The aquatic outlaw, which local officials call Otter...

Despite changes and improvements, Wi-Fi at Harker is sometimes unreliable and unstable, disconnecting at inconvenient times. These disconnections create disruptions both in and out of the classroom.

What’s happening with Harker Wi-Fi?

by Eva Cheng and Victor Gong September 19, 2023

Wi-Fi: a magical gateway to the Internet, a necessity in everyday tasks, the enabler of everything online. In today’s day and age, web browsing, gaming and video calling all require wifi or internet...

Audience members listen attentively to upper school science department head Anita Chetty during the non-RRI portion of the upper school's annual Synopsys information meeting. Chetty went over Harker's project selection guidelines as well as key dates.

Upper school hosts Synopsys meeting on science fair guidelines

by Andrew Liang and Tiffany Zhu September 10, 2023

Around 80 upper school students attended the Synopsys information meeting in the Nichols Auditorium on Aug. 25 to learn about the application process and guidelines for the science fair.  Upper...

A Tesla parks near the charging stations in Harker's front parking lot. “If even 10% of the cars on the road are EVs, and they aren't polluting, that would make a big difference,” Siddhi Jain (12) said.

Biden’s electric vehicle plan: Driving toward a greener future

by Victor Gong and Claire Zhao August 29, 2023

President Joe Biden announced plans on April 10 to transition the U.S. to electric vehicles in cooperation with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).  The “EV Acceleration Challenge” strives...

Transistors: Stem cells of technology

Transistors: Stem cells of technology

by Victor Gong, Co-STEM Editor August 25, 2023

Ever wonder how humans went from the massive computers of the 1940s to the handheld smartphones of the modern era? The answer lies within the transistor. In every electronic device, from cell phones to...

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