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Harker Aquila

The student news site of The Harker School.

Harker Aquila

The student news site of The Harker School.

Harker Aquila

STEM Scene is Harker Aquilas STEM repeater focusing on current developments within the STEM world. This installation features five briefs.
STEM Scene: Sept. 12
by Victor Gong, Andrew Liang, and Claire Zhao September 12, 2023
Audience members listen attentively to upper school science department head Anita Chetty during the non-RRI portion of the upper schools annual Synopsys information meeting. Chetty went over Harkers 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
A Tesla parks near the charging stations in Harkers front parking lot. “If even 10% of the cars on the road are EVs, and they arent 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
Transistors: Stem cells of technology
Transistors: Stem cells of technology
by Victor Gong, Co-STEM Editor • August 25, 2023
An illustration of a virus approaching the Earth. Global warming has led to increased disease spread, with warmer temperatures, greater animal migration and the uncovering of viruses from the permafrost.
Global Reset: How climate change infects our world
by Shareen Chahal and Kinnera Mulam November 16, 2022
Instances of extreme weather are rising, along with their impacts, placing increased populations at risk from climate hazards. The number of weather-related disasters has increased by a factor of five over the past 50 years, with human activity at the vanguard of causes.
Cloudy or clear: Our climate future rests in our hands
by Kinnera Mulam and Lindsey Tuckey October 20, 2022
Summer Adler (9) scoops ice into a mason jar. Green Team has taken multiple environmental activism steps to open up climate activism opportunities for youth.
Global Reset: Fighting for a cooler future
by Kinnera Mulam, Co-STEM Editor • August 24, 2022
Caption: Coachella generates over 1612 tons of waste, only 20% of which is recycled, and produces noise pollution reaching over 110 decibels. The sound level compares to that of a car horn and the volume can interrupt predatory activities in the area.
Global Reset: Coachella harms environment through plastic use, fast fashion and noise pollution
by Angelina Burrows, Ananya Das, and Kinnera Mulam May 30, 2022
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STEM Scene is Harker Aquilas STEM repeater focusing on current developments within the STEM world. This installation features five briefs.
STEM Scene: May 2
by Edward Huang May 2, 2023

STEM Scene is Harker Aquilas STEM repeater focusing on current developments within the STEM world. This installation features five briefs.
STEM Scene: March 27
by Claire Zhao, Copy Editor • March 27, 2023

OpenAI releases new language model GPT-4 Following its predecessor GPT-3.5, OpenAI released GPT-4, the latest language system for ChatGPT,...

Harker alum Rishab Parthasarathy (‘22), along with seven other students, represented the United States at the 19th annual International Linguistics Olympiad (IOL) from July 25 to 29, 2022, on the Isle of Man. “Every day is a new experience: meeting new people and being exposed to a really new culture,” Parthasarathy said. “I never knew that the Isle of Man had such a specific and vibrant culture, including multiple dialects of the same language within 20 miles of each other. It was really cool to be exposed to a culture that I hadn’t learned about before [and] see people who think about language.”
Blooming from the STEM: Linguistics leader
by Olivia Xu and Steven Jiang March 24, 2023

How do you conjugate the verb “to give” in Ubykh, a Circassian language that died 30 years ago with the passing of its last native speaker?...

WiSTEM Co-President Eileen Ma (12) and STEM Buddies Directors Michelle Wei (11) and Margaret Cartee (11) prepare an oobleck demonstration to teach lower school students about non-Newtonian fluids. The recent STEM Buddies event featured five stations where participants could learn new concepts through hands-on activities and discussions.
WiSTEM brings educational activities to lower school for STEM Buddies event
by Ella Yee, Co-News Editor • March 16, 2023

Members of Women in STEM (WiSTEM) hosted STEM Buddies, an event involving hands-on activities and discussions, at the lower school on Feb. 24.  WiSTEM...

Sheena Vaswani (04) discovered her interest in dentistry as early as high school. “I realized that dentistry was a marriage between my interests, and I didnt necessarily have to give up the artistic side of things,” Vaswani said.
Blooming from the STEM: Artistry in dentistry
by Andrew Liang and Sidak Sanghari March 13, 2023

Like most Harker students, Sheena Vaswani (‘04) is a native of the Bay Area, born and raised in Los Altos. However, after finishing high...

Fiona Yan (11) practices presenting her research project at the mock science fair, which was organized by the Research Club on March 6. Fairs were held virtually from 2020 to 2022 due to the pandemic but have since switched back to in-person.
2023 Synopsys Championship returns to in-person science fair
by Edward Huang, Co-STEM Editor • March 13, 2023

Upper school students attended the 2023 Synopsys Science and Technology Championship hosted by the Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering...

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