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ASB Outreach Committee member Avi Gupta (9) speaks about the sock drive. He thanked the community for donating donating over 2,000 pairs of socks, with the class of 2027 donating 1,369 pairs.

School Meeting 11/22: Winter Wishes, De-stress Week and sock drive

by Claire Xu and Wenjie Zou November 25, 2024

Head of Upper School Paul Barsky opened school meeting by reminding students to respect the presenters by putting away devices and avoiding side conversations. Associated Student Body Community Service...

Community Events Secretaries Kairui Sun (11) and Robinson Xiang (11) remind students and faculty to enter photos to the Halloween costume contest. The categories of the contest were best duo, best group, scariest, funniest and most creative.

School Meeting 10/31: DECA, Shakespeare and LIFE Board badminton tournament

by Heather Wang November 5, 2024

Head of Upper School Paul Barksy opened school meeting by reminding students to put away their devices on Thursday in the Zhang Gymnasium. DECA officers Lauren Lin (12), Eden Kelly (11), Nichole Dean...

Annie Yu (9) leans over a pumpkin, examining it carefully. The frosh's pumpkin carving ended up in third place.

Annual pumpkin carving contest encourages class bonding and spirit

by Cynthia Xie and Lindsay Li November 1, 2024

Students participated in the pumpkin carving contest and cheered on their classmates in front of Manzanita Hall during long lunch on Oct. 29. The juniors and seniors tied for first, the sophomores came...

ASB Treasurer Ananya Pradhan (11) explains the school's fundraising policies. She noted that the school does not provide direct reimbursements to students hosting fundraisers.

School Meeting 10/24: HELM, Afghan Refugee Fundraiser and lockdown protocol

by Emma Li and Claire Tian October 26, 2024

Head of Upper School Paul Barsky opened the school meeting on Thursday in the Zhang Gymnasium. Barsky announced that designated teachers would start giving warnings and confiscating phones from students...

Sophomores Grace Fu and Adrian Roufas laugh as they shuffle through pumpkins. Both of them bought pumpkins for themselves, with Grace choosing a small orange one and Adrian selecting a mushroom-shaped one.

HSLT and SAB select pumpkins in spirit-filled excursion at Spina Farms

by Lily Peng, Reporter October 23, 2024

Harker Spirit Leadership Team and Student Activities Board members picked pumpkins at Spina Farms last Friday in preparation for the pumpkin carving competition on Oct. 29. Representatives from...

Aquila Weekly Wrap-Up: Oct. 12-18

by Lily Shi, News Editor October 21, 2024

This is Aquila Weekly Wrap Up, where we bring you the latest updates from around our school community. Monday Jazz Band and Orchestra played the piece “Malambo” from the ballet “Estancia”...

Mathematics department chair Anthony Silk holds up his whiteboard when asked how many hours he prepares for classes. Silk and math teacher Anu Aiyer competed against history teachers James Tate and Jonathan Rim in the Newlyfriend game.

Homecoming Week Day 3: Twin Day and Newlyfriend Game highlight friendships and spirit

by Claire Zhao and Ashley Mo October 2, 2024

Friendship carried the third day of Homecoming week as students and faculty matched outfits and competed in the “Newlyfriend Game.” Harker Spirit Leadership Team hosted Harker’s very first Newlyfriend...

Sophmores Ryan Miao, Yash Belani and Brandon Labio attempt to stop sliding forwards during their match against the seniors. In a pre-match huddle, they practiced their pulling tempo.

Homecoming Week Day 2: Spirit parade and tug-of-war preliminaries build anticipation for rest of week

by Jessica Wang, Leah Krupnik, and Wenjie Zou October 1, 2024

Homecoming Week continues to build momentum for Harker Day as students, dressed in their class colors, marched in the annual spirit parade and competed in tug-of-war preliminaries on Tuesday at 9:35 a.m.  Each...

Breaking down basics of spirit

Breaking down basics of spirit

by Lily Peng, Chelsea Xie, and Elizabeth Zhang October 1, 2024

Spirit Week is underway! Don’t know much about Spirit? Curious about how to win points? Listen to Mirabelle Feng (12), Robert Fields (12), Leo Sobczyn (12), Leana Zhou (11), Ava Bhowmik (11), Ava...

Kairui Sun (11) takes a photo of math teacher Caren Furtado and a group of her students. HSLT co-community event secretaries walked around campus during lunch with a mock film frame, inviting students to pose for pictures.

Homecoming Week Day 1: Students wear animation studio outfits, make memories with photo frame

by Suhani Gupta, Samuel Tong, and Lily Peng September 30, 2024

Homecoming Week launched with animation studio-themed dress-ups and a photo booth in front of Manzanita Hall on Monday. Students and faculty dressed up as PBS for frosh, Nickelodeon for sophomores,...

Aquila Weekly Wrap-Up: Sept. 21-27

by Lily Shi, News Editor September 30, 2024

This is Aquila Weekly Wrap-Up, where we bring you the latest updates from around our school community. Saturday Harker Model U.N. hosted PanMUN, a Model U.N. conference for schools across the Bay...

Seniors Aaron Bao, Robert Fields, Rumi Gupta and Kashish Priyam sing at the karaoke booth. Spirit Night also allowed the classes to finish painting their eagles.

Spirit Night unites classes in final eagle painting push

by Lily Peng, Leah Krupnik, and Janam Chahal September 30, 2024

Spirit Night hosted students adding final painting details and themed props to their eagles before the 5:30 p.m. deadline. Karaoke was also held in front of Manzanita Hall. Points from the eagle judging...

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