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Upper School

9 years ago

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…

In the News, Outreach

9 years ago

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…

msdebate

9 years ago

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…

Research

9 years ago

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…

Sports

9 years ago

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…

In the News

9 years ago

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…

Lower School, summer, upper school

9 years ago

Foreign Students Bring International Flair to Harker through Summer ELI Program

Once again Harker’s English Language Institute (ELI) attracted an increasing number of students from all over the world seeking top-level English instruction. Held during…

endowments, Faculty, Performing Arts

9 years ago

Music Teacher Travels to Oxford for Summer Conducting Institute

This past summer, upper school music teacher Susan Nace attended the residential Choral Conducting Institute at St. Stephen’s College of Oxford University through the…

middle school, summer, upper school

9 years ago

Unique New Offerings and Fun Afternoon Activities Highlight Harker’s Summer Institute

This year’s Summer Institute (SI) was marked by numerous exciting, first-time happenings. Highlights of the increasingly popular program included an inaugural summer science research…

Performing Arts, Sports

9 years ago

Dance Team Wraps Up Santa Cruz Summer Camp with “Superior” Award

Members of the JV and varsity dance team had a very successful run at United Spirit Association’s summer training camp at UC Santa Cruz last week.…