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Harker Aquila

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Harker Aquila

The student news site of The Harker School.

Harker Aquila

Kairui Sun

Kairui Sun, Photo Editor

Kairui Sun (11) is the Photo editor for Harker Aquila and the Winged Post, and this is his third year on staff. This year, he looks forward to honing his photography skills and providing the best visuals he can bring to the publications. Outside of journalism, he enjoys playing the piano as well as volleyball.

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”In Aerospace Engineering, it is hard to communicate in a team-based environment because people have different ideas of what to do. If you synergize, there’s more creativity and minds working together towards a common goal. What you might miss might be brought up by others," senior Aidan Wang said.

Humans of Harker: Thoughts in orbit

by Elaine Zou, Reporter
May 21, 2025
“What matters about reading is not your ability to read, but taking in the words and understanding the plot: it’s how you dialogue with what you have read and how you work alongside the text to gain more understanding. That’s what the point of reading is. No book will ever make me feel exactly the same as any other book. And that uniqueness is what matters to me the most," senior Felix Chen said.

Humans of Harker: Chapters of curiosity

by Kristiyan Kurtev, Reporter
May 18, 2025
“In every activity I do, there's always an element of making sure that my work can impact people. In what I've done, there are times when people question what I do or if what I'm doing is correct. For me, what is most important is that what I'm doing can have a tangible impact on someone else. As long as I believe that an impact can occur, then I want to do that regardless of what other people think," senior Valerie Li said.

Humans of Harker: Calling for change

by Lindsay Li, Multimedia Editor
May 13, 2025
“Once people start lifting, they'll never be happy with how they look or how big their muscles are. It definitely makes them more self-conscious about how they look because a lot of people train for muscle size. Since I'm not trying to pursue lifting in college and it’s just for fun, I train for both. It's not exclusively one or the other," senior Jason Yi said.

Humans of Harker: Power through

by Kairui Sun, Aquila Managing Editor
May 12, 2025
I’ve loved playing with a team, undergoing all the ups and downs of a long season together. Those shared secret smiles after running mountains or the heartbreak of losing in CCS are moments taken together.

Last buzzer on a lifetime of memories

by Isabella Lo, Aquila Managing Editor
March 26, 2025
“For me, discipline can only happen when I try the things that I really like. Since I like basketball and I like guitar, I'm willing to contribute to the discipline. It's not really discipline at that point — it's passion," senior Advay Monga said.

Humans of Harker: Dribble and drive

by Kairui Sun, Photo Editor
February 4, 2025
After four record-breaking seasons at Springfield, Anderson transferred to GCU to finish two extra seasons of collegiate volleyball granted by the COVID-19 pandemic. As Anderson currently prepares to spend his final season of collegiate volleyball at GCU, he considers playing professionally after college.

Acing beyond conventional paths

by Kairui Sun, Photo Editor
November 22, 2024
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