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…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
