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Orchestra places first: selected to play encore performance

Orchestra places first: selected to play encore performance

by Aditi Ashok April 23, 2010

On April 19, the Upper School Orchestra received top honors during their debut recital at the Los Angeles Festival of Gold, earning them an encore performance later that evening. After traveling to...

Robotics team competes in annual FIRST event

Robotics team competes in annual FIRST event

by Tiffany Chien & Shreya Nathan April 4, 2010

Every year for a weekend in March, hundreds of high school students gather at the Event Center at San Jose State University to compete in the Silicon Valley Regional robotics competition, one of many...

What is a Harker family...

What is a Harker family…

by Shreya Nathan, Nayeon Kim, Alisha Mayor March 15, 2010

No family is traditional, and in the openness of the 21st century, the American family dynamic is rapidly changing. In this school alone, various students have grown up with same-sex parents, dealt with...

Vandalism hits bathrooms on campus

Vandalism hits bathrooms on campus

by Shannon O’Reilly & Nilesh Murali March 5, 2010

There has been routine clogging of the toilets of the girls’ bathroom in Main Hall by excessive toilet paper, toiletries, and even food. Students, maintenance, and administration are all flummoxed by...

Sophomores present at annual Teens in Tech conference

Sophomores present at annual Teens in Tech conference

by Akshay Aggarwal February 18, 2010

On Saturday, February 6, Google’s offices in San Francisco held the annual Teens in Tech Conference and hosted 13 speakers, two of whom were sophomores Daniela Lapidous and Shreya Indukuri. The main...

Second Intel competition finalist in school history

Second Intel competition finalist in school history

by Daniela Lapidous January 31, 2010

On January 26, Namrata Anand (12) was announced to the school as an Intel Science Talent Search Finalist. Mark Pettinger returned with yet another check to reward her research efforts in the field of astrophysics. The...

A lifetime labor of Love

A lifetime labor of Love

by Rishi Bhatia January 15, 2010

Ever since she was eight years old, Alexandra Mattraw (English teacher) has been writing poems. Her work will soon reach a major milestone, as Achiote Press is in the process of publishing her chapbook,...

Earthquake jolts campus

Earthquake jolts campus

by Tara Hansen & Isha Kawatra January 7, 2010

Thursday, January 7, at 10:09:35 a.m., an earthquake of magnitude 4.1 on the Richter scale occurred near Milpitas. With a depth of 9 km, the quake was shallow. However, it was still felt at Harker, approximately...

Brother and sister set personal bests at swimming nationals

Brother and sister set personal bests at swimming nationals

by Pavitra Rengarajan December 11, 2009

Last Thursday through Saturday, from December 3 to 5, Jessica Khojasteh (11) and Kevin Khojasteh (10) traveled to Federal Way, Washington to participate in the 2009 AT&T Short Course National Championships...

Q & A with Tom Campbell

Q & A with Tom Campbell

by Mahum Jamal & Daniela Lapidous November 24, 2009

While students focus on the final exams of next month, politicians vying to be candidates in California’s gubernatorial election have their eyes on 2010. Tom Campbell, Republican, is one of those hopefuls,...

Evolution of senior class spirit

Evolution of senior class spirit

by Priyanka Mody November 17, 2009

The class of 2010 did not come straight out of middle school dominating the rallies and spirit events. Every journey has a beginning. Freshmen year, they found themselves in a new environment as they...

GEO Week: Raises money and awareness

GEO Week: Raises money and awareness

by Samantha Hoffman & Shilpa Nataraj October 28, 2009

Jugs filled to the rim with murky water and various merchandise speckled our campus along with drink-deprived teachers as Global Empowerment and Outreach (GEO) Week raised awareness and money for charity:water...

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