![Benjamin Xia (10) savors his ice cream with his friends after watching the classs hydrogen rockets. The ice cream lab reinforced concepts of thermodynamics and energy transfer.](https://harkeraquila.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/rocketsandyogurt_KS_052024-4-1200x832.jpg)
Chemistry students conclude school year with a blast
by Ashley Mo and Kairui Sun
• May 22, 2024
![Green Team co-president Kinnera Mulam draws raffle winners. Prizes included vegan baked goods from Bradley Stoll, vegan chapsticks and succulents.](https://harkeraquila.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Andrew-Irvine-Kinnera-Mulam-12-1-1200x1052.jpg)
Global Reset: A peek at Earth Week
by Victor Gong, Emma Li, Alison Yang, and Claire Zhao
• May 3, 2024
![Students and staff witness the partial solar eclipse with special solar viewers. These glasses prevent eye damage by filtering out harmful radiation from the Sun.](https://harkeraquila.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/SolarViewersCrop2-1200x800.jpg)
Upper school community marvels at partial solar eclipse
by Victor Gong and Jessica Wang
• April 12, 2024
![Team 1072s technical president Chiling Han (11) runs code on the robot at the competitions practice field. Despite multiple rounds of bug fixes, the robots autonomous routine failed to run properly.](https://harkeraquila.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/hkrorobotics-e1712785739729-1200x801.png)
Robotics team bounces back at Sacramento Regional
by Mihir Kotbagi and Charlie Wang
• April 11, 2024
![In 2023 alone, over 10,000 research papers were withdrawn, setting a new global record. Journals subject papers to stringent review processes facilitated by expert peer reviewers, but many procedural and factual errors still manage to slip past inattentive editors, threatening to damage the reputation of legitimate scientific research.](https://harkeraquila.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Untitled_Artwork-766x1200.jpg)
Science has an integrity problem
by Mihir Kotbagi, Assistant STEM Editor
• April 8, 2024
![Volunteer Jonny Xue (11) calls on an HMI participant during a Fermi estimation contest before the awards ceremony. All of the questions had to do with Om Nom, the green monster from the Cut the Rope mobile game and HMIs unofficial mascot.](https://harkeraquila.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/fixed-3149ECB6-DB5A-40E6-9F22-B9C400055609_1_201_a-1200x801.jpeg)
Record-high 405 participants attend student-run Harker Math Invitational
by Jessica Hu, Assistant Copy Editor
• March 18, 2024
![Attendees of the research club take part in a mock-science fair in preparation for Synopsys on March 7. Synopsys is the Santa Clara County regional research championship.](https://harkeraquila.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/DSC_8367-1200x795.jpg)
Research Club holds Synopsys Championship preparation meeting
by Vivek Moorjani, HoH Profiler
• March 18, 2024
![Upper school chemistry teacher Andrew Irvine assists Arturo Vilalta (10) with the paper chromatography lab. Students determined which M&M flavors contained yellow #5 using chromatography.](https://harkeraquila.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/IMG_4743-e1709768236817-1200x901.jpg)
Honors Chemistry students sweeten science with M&M chromatography
by Ashley Mo, Assistant STEM Editor
• March 8, 2024
![Illustration by Emily Tan and Claire Zhao. Design by Victor Gong.](https://harkeraquila.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Stem-Scene-February-22-1.png)
STEM Scene: Feb. 22
by Mihir Kotbagi and Claire Zhao
• February 22, 2024
![Marc Leglise (’03) snaps a selfie from the air using a camera-helmet system. His passion for skydiving connects him to his work at Columbia Sportswear, where as a senior manager of e-commerce technology, he helps people secure the gear he uses in the air.](https://harkeraquila.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/IMG_1208-1200x1200.jpeg)
Blooming from the STEM: Diving into e-commerce
by Katerina Matta, Co-Sports Editor
• January 14, 2024
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