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LALC Vice President of External Affairs Raeanne Li (11) explains the International Phonetic Alphabet to attendees. "We decided to have more fun topics this year instead of just talking about the same things every year so our older members can also [enjoy],” Raeanne said.

Club Corner: Students learn to pronounce non-English words at Language and Linguistics Club Workshop

by Vivek Moorjani, Humans of Harker Managing Editor October 19, 2025

The Language and Linguistics Club (LALC) discussed “How to pronounce words we don’t speak in English” in French teacher Galina Tchourilova’s room on Tuesday. Club members focused on the origin...

Sophomores Mehr Paul and Grace Yao choose supplies for their cards. Officers prepared a wide selection of colorful, patterned envelopes, cards and stickers for attendees.

UNICEF hosts first meeting of year with card-making event for hospitalized children

by Charlene Li and Grace Wu October 10, 2025

Harker UNICEF hosted its first club meeting of the year, where students used colorful, patterned envelopes, cards and stickers to design cards for hospitalized children on Tuesday.  The cards will...

Med Club officer Kimi Yashar (11) acts as afflicted patient as participants collaborate to diagnose her. Members analyzed symptoms and conducted mock medical tests to reach an accurate diagnosis.

Club Corner: Medical Club hosts diagnosis simulation

by Lily Shi, News Editor March 23, 2025

Medical Club hosted its annual Diagnosis Event, inviting students to step into the role of doctors by diagnosing diseases simulated by club officers on March 18.  The two main case studies featured...

Celina Xu (11) and Victor Gong (12) prepare the baking sheet for the brownies. “I enjoy cooking because you get to see something from start to finish, and it’s a very calming process—the act of chopping or mixing things," Celina said.

Club Corner: Cooking Club de-stresses by baking brownies

by Chelsea Xie and Lily Peng March 9, 2025

Cooking Club taught students how to make brownies in the Auxiliary Gym kitchen after school on Thursday.  Club presidents Ian Gerstner (12) and Victor Gong (12) passed out recipes to attendees and...

Danial Khan discusses the importance of accruing interest on savings accounts. Khan points out that knowing how to choose optimal interest plans is key to being financially literate.

Club Corner: Investment Club invites Stanford financial literacy coach

by Samuel Tong, Assistant News Editor January 29, 2025

Investment Club hosted financial wellness program manager Danial Khan of Stanford University’s Mind Over Money program to discuss financial literacy topics and money management strategies on Monday. As...

Adrian Ma, host of NPR's "The Indicator from Planet Money" podcast presented in a Oeconomia speaker event via Zoom. "We often respond to the news by thinking about what business-related questions we can answer that are adjacent to it so the next time the story pops up in somebody's feed, they feel a bit more informed about what it means," Ma said.

Club Corner: Oeconomia invites speaker from NPR podcast

by Cynthia Xie, Assistant A&E/Lifestyle Editor January 26, 2025

"The Indicator from Planet Money" podcast host Adrian Ma presented and answered questions about his journey into economics journalism at Oeconomia’s speaker event on Tuesday. Ma talked about his experience...

Ayush Midha ('15) answers a student question about his choice to pursue a medical degree. His interest in healthcare systems from debate brought him to the Jain Lab of University of California, San Francisco.

Club Corner: Nexus Club features alumni debater in speaker event

by Lily Peng, Assistant News Editor January 26, 2025

PhD student Ayush Midha (‘15) recounted how his debate journey in high school shaped his future in the medical field at a Nexus Club speaker in the Nichols Auditorium on Tuesday. After an introduction...

JCL Co-President Ainslie Chen (12) explains the mythological inaccuracies in the movie "Clash of the Titans." Ainslie highlighted how movies often distort classical myths to appeal to modern audiences.

Club Corner: Junior Classical League discusses mythological inaccuracies in cinema

by Lily Peng and William Jiang December 8, 2024

Junior Classical League (JCL) hosted its first lecture of the year on the fallacies of classical mythology depictions in the movies “Hercules,” “Clash of Titans” and “300” on Tuesday. In...

LALC officer Raeanne Li (10) listens to Dr. Allen Romano's talk about language models.  Raeanne organized the speaker event and moderated the audience questions and discussion.

Club Corner: Language and Linguistics Club hosts speaker event on language models

by Claire Tian and Lily Peng November 27, 2024

Natural language processing (NLP) expert Allen Romano explained the uses of large language models (LLMs) when analyzing and understanding classical texts in his talk at the Language and Linguistics Club...

Sophomores Saahithi Koneru and Joyce He write letters to individuals currently in jail. Amnesty International planned to mail the letters to the victims as a sign of support and to advocate for their release.

Club Corner: Amnesty Club counteracts censorship by writing letters of support

by Lily Peng, Reporter October 17, 2024

Amnesty Club wrote letters to governments and government-silenced individuals around the world to promote social justice in their first club meeting on Oct. 10. They chose to support a list of 13 artists...

Aarush Vailaya presented his research on chromatic symmetric functions during lunch on Oct. 3. He introduced the concept of “coloring” in algebraic graph theory.

Club Corner: Math Club delves into math research

by Caden Ruan and Wenjie Zou October 10, 2024

Math Club hosted its first student lecture of the year, where senior Aarush Vailaya discussed his research on chromatic symmetric functions in math teacher Anu Aiyer’s room on Oct. 3.  Aarush first...

Founder of Wushu Central Martial Arts Academy David Chang shares his  entrepreneurial story with students in the Innovation Center on Monday. The event kicked off CareerConnect C-Sweets series, where students learn from various successful entrepreneurs while snacking on sweets.

Club Corner: CareerConnect hosts martial arts entrepreneur

by Lily Shi, Co-News Editor September 22, 2024

CareerConnect hosted David Chang, CEO of Wushu Central Martial Arts Academy, to share his entrepreneurial journey with students on Monday in the Innovation Center. Chang began teaching martial arts...

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