Upper School Spirit Kickoff Filled With Activities, Fun and Food
Upper school students had a blast at the 2015 spirit kickoff on Aug. 28. Students enjoyed a variety of games, including dodgeball, a relay…
Upper School
Students Reunite with Overseas Friends During Swiss Excursion
Several upper school students traveled to Switzerland over the summer to meet with their friends from College de Gambach in Fribourg and tour several…
Kudos: Chess Whiz Wins Second Place, Students Perform at International Music Festival
Over Labor Day weekend, grade 9 chess enthusiast Shaunak Maruvada took second place in the expert section (U2200) at the CalChess State Championship. Facing…
Junior Author’s Nonfiction Work Takes First Place in National Competition
This past summer, Columbia College Chicago named Meilan Steimle, grade 11, the first-place winner in the nonfiction category in its Young Authors national writing…
Kudos: Two Earn Table Tennis Championship and Two Foilists Compete In National Championships
Table TennisShreyas Chandrashekaran, grade 10, and Kaushik Shivakumar, grade 9, took first place in Division I of the 2015 Bay Area Interschools Table Tennis…
Senior Dance Enthusiast Raises Money for Schools– Featured in Mercury News
Senior Sharanya Balaji was featured in the San Jose Mercury News for her efforts to bring arts education to Grant Elementary School in San…
Upper and Middle School Debate Teams Accrue National Honors
By Jenny Alme and Greg Achten It’s been a fabulous past few months for Harker’s speech and debate teams! Although the bulk of the speech…
Update: Freshmen Trio Named Broadcom MASTERS Semifinalists for Dehydration and Biometric Research
Update: Harker has a third student in the Broadcom MASTERS science competition! Cameron Jones, who started 9th grade at Harker this year, is a semi-finalist…
Sophmore Zhu Wins First AJGA Event 5-Under-Par
Katherine Zhu, grade 10, took top honors at the Gary Gilchrist Golf Academy/Shanshan Feng Junior Championship in August! This is her first American Junior…
Senior Awarded Prestigious Davidson Fellow Scholarship
Congrats to Vineet Kosaraju, grade 12, who was named a 2015 Davidson Fellow and will receive a $10,000 college scholarship! Kosaraju was one of…