Middle School Latin Students Hold JCL Induction at Laser Quest
Harker’s Junior Classical League (JCL) got off to a great start with this year’s inaugural event, held Sept. 28 at Laser Quest in Mountain…
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Middle School Forensics Team Named All-Around National School of Excellence
This article was originally published in the fall 2012 Harker Quarterly. Harker’s middle school speech and debate team capped another strong season on June…
Middle School Barbecue Caps Off Range of Exciting Back-to-School Events
After an especially busy back-to-school time for students in grades 6-8 and their families, the middle school’s first annual barbecue afforded an opportunity for…
Middle School Preview Day Eases Transition to Junior High for Students and Families
The transition to middle school was made easier for both new and returning Harker students entering grade 6, thanks to a middle school preview…
Middle School Parents Learn About Volunteer Opportunities at Special Breakfast
After an informative middle school orientation meeting held on the morning of Aug. 27, parents headed to the multipurpose room where they mingled with…
Stone Soup Children’s Magazine Publishes Eighth Grader’s Award-Winning Story
“Yosemite Grasslands,” a short story by Meilan Steimle, grade 8, winner of a statewide Scholastic Gold Key award, has been published in the July-August…
Kudos: Foil and Squash Competitors Gain National Ranking, Grade 4 Basketball Boys in Championship Game
Fencing Jerrica Liao, grade 7, is now ranked second in the U.S. in women’s foil age 12 and under and is ranked 16th in…
Middle School Hosts Ice Cream Social to Wind Up First Days
The middle school celebrated the end of the first week of school with its annual ice cream social. The fact that it was preceded by a…
Environmentally Aware Middle School Student Spends Summer Fighting Plastic Pollution
What began as an interest in sailing morphed into a crusade to save the earth’s waterways from plastic pollution for Dolan Dworak, grade 7.…
Four Students Named Semifinalists in Broadcom MASTERS Competition
Four Harker students were recently named semifinalists in the 2012 Broadcom Math, Applied Science, Technology and Engineering as Rising Stars (MASTERS) competition. Rishabh Chandra, Jonathan Ma and Rajiv Sancheti,…