Girls Volleyball The girls volleyball team picked up two big wins last week, defeating Carmel 3-2 and Westmont 3-1. In the win over Carmel, Michelle Ning, grade 10, led the way with 10 kills with Ashley Jazbec, grade 11, adding nine kills. This week, the 5-3 Eagles host Los Altos on Wednesday at 6 p.m.. […]
Girls Volleyball The girls volleyball team picked up two big wins last week, defeating Carmel 3-2 and Westmont 3-1. In the win over Carmel, Michelle Ning, grade 10, led the way with 10 kills with Ashley Jazbec, grade 11, adding nine kills. This week, the 5-3 Eagles host Los Altos on Wednesday at 6 p.m.. […]
Andrew Semenza ‘18 and Millie Lin ‘18, at the behest of brother Jason Lin, grade 10, performed for a benefit concert on August 19 along with friend Kevin Zhu, a Bay Area native and world-renown violist. All proceeds went to the Tahirih Justice Center, a national non-profit committed to serving as many immigrant women and […]
Yesterday, the National Merit Scholarship Corporation announced that 43 Harker seniors – 22 percent of the class of 2019 – were named semifinalists in the 2019 National Merit Scholarship Program. This year’s semifinalists are: Ayush Alag, Nishka Ayyar, Logan Bhamidipaty, Robert Bloomquist, Joshua Broweleit, Timothy Chang, Christie Chen, Pamela Duke, Kai Franz, Lilia Gonzales, Rose […]
Girls Water Polo The girls water polo team picked up two big league wins last week followed by a strong tournament showing. The Eagles defeated Monta Vista 11-9 and Milpitas 12-2 during the week with wins over Monta Vista, Santa Teresa and Lynbrook at the Lynbrook Tournamnet over the weekend. This week, the girls host […]
Harker is pleased to announce its 2018-19 endowment awardees; each student will receive a grant to help them in their yearlong effort producing a research paper on a humanities subject.
In recognition of Constitution Day, recognized this past Monday, upper school history teacher Julie Wheeler’s AP U.S. history students participated in a special video chat discussion on the First Amendment.
Today, environmental activist Jackie Nunez visited the upper school for a special assembly on the use of plastic and how disposable plastic products – straws, in particular – are discarded in the ocean, where they cause harm to aquatic life and enter the food chain after being consumed by animals. Students watched a pair of […]
Ashley Gauba, grade 10, contributed to this report The first Business & Entrepreneurship “Crash Course” event was held this week to tell incoming high school students how to get involved in the B&E program. The officer team explained the purpose of each program including TedX, BeCon, Podcast, Oeconomia, DECA and Career Connect. Speakers outlined what […]
Football The football team dominated visiting Lowell on Friday to the tune of 50-0. It was also Senior Night, and the Seniors had quite a night! Anthony Meissner, grade 12, connected with Jared Anderson, grade 12, on a 58 yard scoring play, and with Mitchell Granados, grade 12, on a 64 yard touchdown. Meissner also […]
Cross Country Anna Weirich, grade 10, competed at the prestigious Stanford Invitational over the weekend and showed why she is one of the top runners in the state. Weirich finished second among 186 D2 state runners, posting the best sophomore time of the day; she had one of the top 10 best times for any […]
Last month, 29 students headed to Ashland, Ore., for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. This annual trip, established in 2009, gives students with a love of literature and theater the chance to enhance their understanding not just of Shakespeare but also the elements of storytelling. On the trip the students saw productions of Shakespeare’s “Henry V” […]
The Class of 2022 visited the Coyote Valley Open Space Preserve on Oct. 10 for this year’s Frosh Service Trip. Students spent the day clearing the preserve’s trails and maintaining its fire lines, which are used to inhibit the spread of fires. The students arrived in the morning and were divided into groups to work […]
Football The football team improved to 6-2 on the year as it soundly defeated the Oakland Military Institute 62-18 on Friday night. Once again, lots of impressive numbers including Devin Keller, grade 11, rushing for 151 yards and a score, Mitchell Granados, grade 12, rushing for a score and catching a TD pass, Anthony Meissner, […]
Earlier this week, the New York Academy of Sciences accepted senior Ayush Vyas into the NYAS Junior Academy. As part of NYAS’ Global STEM Alliance (GSA), the Junior Academy program connects students aged 13-18 with a range of educational and networking opportunities in STEM disciplines such as public health, sustainability, emerging technology and many more. […]
Girls Golf It was a very busy and successful, week for the girls golf team. The girls started the week with a 194-297 win over Notre Dame Belmont with Sophie Zhang-Murphy, grade 9, and Natalie Vo, grade 10, each shooting a 37 to take medalist honors. Then, the Eagles defeated Menlo 183-217, with Vo taking […]
Tiffany Zhu ’17, now at Stanford, had her Mitra Family Endowment for the Humanities paper, written while at Harker, published in the spring 2018 issue of the Stanford Undergraduate Research Journal.
Cross Country The Eagles ran very well in their final cross country race before the league championships in two weeks. Ryan Adolf, grade 12, again led the Eagles at Baylands Park as he and Aditya Singhvi, grade 10 , both finished in the top 20 for the first time this year. Freshmen Ritika Rajamani and […]
Girls Water Polo The girls water polo team finished off one of the best seasons in school history with three wins in the SCVAL tournament to become tournament champs and co-league champs for just the second time in program history! The girls defeated Milpitas 13-3, Wilcox 11-2 and Saratoga 5-4 in the championship game. The […]
This article written by Neha Tallapragada, grade 12 Career Connect took seven students to the Constellation Connected Enterprise Conference at the Ritz Carlton in Half Moon Bay this week. The conference focused in on the ways that our new world of technology impacts several sectors, from health care to business to sports management. Harker students […]