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Students, faculty and Harker family members arrived en masse at the Blackford campus on April 26 for the fourth annual Harker Cancer Walk. This year’s event was another success, bringing in $5,500 in one day alone, with donations still being received at Harker News Online press time. The well-attended...

“If you build it…” The oft-quoted line from the movie “Field of Dreams” has been echoing in the halls of The Harker School the last few years. Nichols Hall, which opened to great celebration in the fall of 2008, has proven to be a spectacular home for science classes, competitive research...

Upper school music teacher Susan Nace is a Grammy winner! Nace, who directs Cantilena and advises Guys’ Gig, is part of the Grammy-winning San Francisco Symphony Chorus. The group was given the Best Choral Performance award for their live recording of “Symphony of a Thousand,” part of Gustav Mahler’s...

In April, members of the Parent Development Council (PDC) were invited to have lunch at the Harker campuses. Parents of lower school children visited the Bucknall campus on April 15 and 16, joining their kids in the lunch line and enjoying their meals together. The following week, Blackford parents sat...

Reprinted from the Harker Quarterly March 2010 issue On Jan. 14, the tables turned at the upper school campus. The students, typically collecting awards at Intel and Siemens  Science competitions and presenting their own research at the annual and upcoming Harker Research Symposium (see December Harker...

Reprinted from the Harker Quarterly March 2010 issue WinterSong: Bel Canto and Friends Bel Canto and fellow performers wowed the crowd with a Conservatory concert held on Jan. 22 at Nichols Hall. At WinterSong, this ensemble of Gr. 9-10 singers sang songs from a wide range of genres, including Harry...

Reprinted from the Harker Quarterly March 2010 issue The seventh annual Harker Fashion Show in February was another glamorous spectacle that put on fantastic display the many parts of the greater whole that is Harker. Titled “Outside the Box: Chic and Unique,” this year’s sold-out event was a celebration...

Nichols Hall on the Saratoga campus hummed with energy on April 10 during Harker’s fifth annual research symposium, “Technology for Life.” Begun in 2005 by upper school biology teacher and science department chair Anita Chetty, the student-led event is modeled after professional symposia that...

Recently several students got to go to the home of Head of School Christopher Nikoloff for “American Idol” night. Siobhan Cox, Gr. 9, won this event at this year’s picnic silent auction. She turned the occasion into a celebration of her birthday as well. Cox and her friends enjoyed...

Harker ‘s middle and upper schools were once again big winners at the Synopsys Science and Technology Championship, pulling in more than 40 awards. Two upper school students, Alex Han, Gr. 12 and Revanth Kosaraju, Gr. 10, walked away with grand prizes for “Best of Championship” in the Biological...