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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.…

upper school

9 years ago

Coach Thompson Returns to Harker as New Head of Varsity Girls Basketball

Harker’s athletic department has hired Tomas Thompson as the new head coach of the school’s varsity girls basketball team. In addition to his collegiate playing…

Outreach, upper school

9 years ago

Upper School Student Creates Support System for Youth Whose Loved Ones Have Cancer

There was a time when Eesha Chona, a rising senior and founder of an online community for children and teens whose loved ones are…

9 years ago

Harker Teens Participate in National Book Award Review

Three Harker teens – rising seniors Natalie Simonian and Allison Wang, and rising junior Andrew Rule – offered a national award committee their opinions on titles nominated for…

Performing Arts

9 years ago

Four Students Named to Prestigious National Choir

Four Harker singers were named to the 2015 National Association for Music Education (NAfME) All-National Honor Mixed Choir. They are Krishna Bheda, rising sophomore; Ashwin Rao, rising…

Mathematics, Science

9 years ago

Students Take Second Place at National TEAMS Competition

In late June, a team of Harker rising juniors took second place overall in the 9/10 level at the national TEAMS (Tests of Engineering Aptitude, Mathematics…

Sports

9 years ago

Rising Sophomore Qualifies for Golf National Championships

On June 30 Harker golfer Katherine Zhu, a rising sophomore, qualified for the U.S. Golf Association’s Girls’ Junior Championship with a 72! The USGA…