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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

I want my legacy to be that I helped people heal. There’s still so much more for me to learn, new people and experiences and communities I need to be exposed to. I think to positions I’ve been in where that type of work has benefitted me — I have a responsibility to try and bring that to others somehow," senior Katerina Matta said.

Humans of Harker: Uncovering life’s languages

by Alison Yang, Aquila Editor-in-Chief June 24, 2025

Surrounded by huge printouts of half-finished pages, hunched over a laptop with a progress spreadsheet fully in the red, focused on warring against typos and misaligned text wrap with a Sharpie, mildly...

Winged Post Editor-in-Chief Katerina Matta and Managing Editor Young Min were selected as first place winners from a pool of around 2,000 students. “This page [shows] how much we paid attention to detail and how much we pushed ourselves to ensure the best quality that we could,” Young said.

Winged Post editors earn first place at National High School Communications Contest

by Ashley Mo, Winged Post Editor-in-Chief May 19, 2025

2024-25 Winged Post Editor-in-Chief Katerina Matta (12) and Managing Editor Young Min (12) placed first in the Single Page Layout category to represent California at the 2025 National Federation of Press...

Journalism Editors-in-Chief line up after the end of their presentation. They discussed leadership strategies and challenges during their session.

Leading together, learning together

by Mendy Mao and Vivek Moorjani September 28, 2024

PALO ALTO, Calif. – Harker Journalism Editors-in-Chief Victor Gong (12), Katerina Matta (12), Chayce Milheim (12), Emma Milner (12) and Alison Yang (12) hosted a leadership roundtable during the...

Kathy Xu (11) holds out her phone, which displays the final page of her 2021 Spotify Wrapped statistics. Spotify Wrapped released this year on Dec. 1 and showed user statistics from the past year in a multi-page story format.

2021 Spotify Wrapped summarizes users’ listening experiences over past year

by Emma Gao, Reporter December 10, 2021

Spotify released its 2021 Spotify Wrapped feature, which allows users to explore their unique listening patterns and statistics over the past year, on Dec. 1. According to Spotify’s website, the personalized...

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