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Senior Andrew Jin was named a first place winner at the Intel STS competition. Andrew is the first student from the school to win this award.

Senior Andrew Jin Named Intel STS Winner

by Vedant Thyagaraj and Vineet Kosaraju March 12, 2015

Senior Andrew Jin (12) was named one of the three first-place winners of the Intel Science Talent Search (STS) competition on Tuesday and will be honored at an assembly on Monday. This is the first time...

Boys’ varsity basketball dominates Del Mar to advance to third round CCS

by Justin Su, Reporter February 27, 2015

The varsity boys' basketball team defeated Del Mar High School 71-38 on Thursday evening at Blackford during a CCS second round game. This is the boys’ first CCS game of the season due to their first...

Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton addresses an audience of over 5,000 at the Lead On Watermark Silicon Valley Conference for Women. Twenty students attended the event Tuesday.

Twenty students attend Lead On Conference for Women

by Kacey Fang, Winged Post Managing Editor February 26, 2015

Twenty students attended the inaugural Lead On Watermark Silicon Valley Conference for Women, held Tuesday morning and afternoon in the Santa Clara Convention Center. The conference targeted female...

The panel of four takes audience questions towards the end of the meeting. This was the final CareerConnect meeting of this school year.

Students attend the CareerConnect Business Panel

by Aditya Varshney, Aquila Social Media Editor February 26, 2015

Students attended the CareerConnect Business Panel at the Nichols Innovation Center to speak with a panel of four experienced entrepreneurs during Wednesday long lunch. The featured panel comprised...

AP Studio Art exhibit features work from greatest number students ever

by Elisabeth Siegel, Winged Post News Editor February 26, 2015

The AP Studio Art (APSA) exhibit featured a collection of artworks from the largest group of APSA students ever, taking place in Nichols Hall yesterday during long lunch. The artworks of 23 students...

Annual Harker fundraiser set to change venues

Annual Harker fundraiser set to change venues

by Trisha Dwivedi and Raveena Kapatkar February 20, 2015

The Night on the Town fundraiser will take place on May 9, the Saturday after the first week of AP exams. The Fashion Show, which changed to Night on the Town last year, was originally held every year...

 Students gather outside of Manzanita to create bookmarks for the FemInterKey fundraiser. FEM, Interact, and Key clubs joined together to support Students Rebuild’s Literacy Challenge, which donates $2 for every bookmark made.

FEM, Interact, and Key Clubs host bookmark fundraiser

by Cindy Liu, TALON Academic Editor February 6, 2015

FEM, Interact, and Key clubs joined together during Wednesday long lunch to host a bookmark-making fundraiser outside of Manzanita for the organization Students Rebuild. Students had the opportunity...

The Gender Gap: Why women in STEM get lost along the pipeline

The Gender Gap: Why women in STEM get lost along the pipeline

by Kacey Fang and Elisabeth Siegel February 3, 2015

She sits down in the last open seat of the Neural Networks computer science classroom in Nichols Hall—middle table, last row. The two adjacent tables and the three in front each have two to three of...

Marina Newman (10) asked Shuttleworth a question about the paper he handed out during the meeting. She enquired whether or not he had a copy of Hamlet.

Students learn more about the National Shakespeare Competition during long lunch

by Julia Huang, Reporter January 29, 2015

Students gathered at Charles Shuttleworth’s room during Wednesday long lunch to receive details about the National Shakespeare Competition. Though the competition occurred yearly, starting with the...

184 Hours: Preparing for the FIRST Robotics Competition

184 Hours: Preparing for the FIRST Robotics Competition

by Vivek Bharadwaj and Kavya Ramakrishnan January 29, 2015

The clang of metal parts striking together echoes through Nichols 312, a room filled with programmers staring at their computers. In the robotics machine shop behind the room, a horizontal band saw in...

Alexa Gross (10) and Shreya Basu (12) work on the bench. They collaborate in continuing on what had been painted before.

Art club initiates project of painting VTA benches

by Emma Yu, Reporter January 28, 2015

The Art Club started a project of painting the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) benches outside of Shah Hall during long lunch today. Three sophomores, Alexa Gross, Marti Sutton and...

Upper School journalism seniors interview Cooper after the presentation. They attended one of Anderson Cooper's three presentations this week at the Flint Center in Cupertino.

Anderson Cooper shares his journey in the field of journalism

by Sabrina Sidhu and Shannon Su January 24, 2015

CNN journalist and news anchor Anderson Cooper shared his experiences covering stories around the world through presentations on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday from 8 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at De Anza College’s...

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