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Upper School

10 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

10 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

10 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

10 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

10 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

10 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

10 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

10 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

10 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…

10 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…