Harker freshman worked to widen and clear the four-mile Arrowhead Loop Trail and remove invasive, non-native plants from an adjacent meadow.
Upper School
Student-run nonprofit aims to help poor population in rural China
In the summer of 2014, Bay Area high school students saw an opportunity to alleviate poverty while visiting the rural village of Dagouyan in China’s Ningxia region.
Upper school students take summer trip to Japan as Silicon Valley Youth Ambassadors
Over the summer, senior Liana Wang and sophomore Mohan Awasthi visited Okayama, Japan (a sister city of San Jose) as Silicon Valley Youth Ambassadors.…
Upper school’s Red Cross Club holds annual blood drive at Nichols Hall
The Harker Red Cross club held its annual blood drive at the Nichols Hall atrium earlier this month, collecting 21 donations. The drive was held…
Soccer teams take to the field for Camp Okizu at annual Kicks Against Cancer game
In late January, upper school soccer teams took to Davis Field for this year’s Kicks Against Cancer event to benefit Camp Okizu, which organizes…
Student-run WonderBots! program aims to bring more girls into tech
Junior Anooshree Sengupta recently led her first WonderBots! program, which she spearheaded to foster interest in technology among local girls in grades 5-8. Designed…
Harker contingent joins Adopt-A-Highway in trash cleanup
Harker teacher and Green Team member Diana Moss and her son Kevin Moss ’14, along with sisters Anika Banga, grade 11, and Anvi Banga,…
Harker Green Team organizes fall clothing drive
In November, Harker’s Green Team – an upper school organization that promotes sustainability and awareness of environmental issues – held a clothing drive to…
Harker students spend a Saturday morning helping clean up Guadalupe River Trail
Seventeen students and four teachers from Harker’s upper school joined about 40 other concerned citizens to remove litter from San Jose’s Guadalupe River Trail…
Two Programs, One Cause: Middle and Upper School Outreach Efforts Raise Money for Camp Okizu
This article originally appeared in the summer 2016 Harker Quarterly. This past spring, two of Harker’s popular outreach efforts, the middle school’s annual Cancer…