Middle School, Upper School

Harker middle and upper school students win 166 art and writing awards

Late last month, 166 Harker students were named regional winners in the 2022 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, with 75 art awards and 91 writing awards. Among them were 28 Gold Key winners, 49 Silver Key winners and 89 Honorable Mentions. All Gold Key winners are eligible to win national awards, which will be announced in March, and national medalists will be invited to a national ceremony in New York City, scheduled for June.

The complete list of Harker winners is as follows:

Art Awards

Vivian Vivian 11 Harker Upper School Honorable Mention Digital Art Bodies
Vivian Bi 11 Harker Upper School Honorable Mention Painting Bedroom
Shareen Chahal 10 Harker Upper School Silver Key Drawing & Illustration A Smile’s Power
Shareen Chahal 10 Harker Upper School Gold Key Digital Art My Reflection Isn’t Me
Karina Chen 11 Harker Upper School Honorable Mention Comic Art Tint of Life
Karina Chen 11 Harker Upper School Silver Key Digital Art Wild Fire
Karina Chen 11 Harker Upper School Honorable Mention Digital Art Vomit
Alice Feng 12 Harker Upper School Gold Key Photography Worlds Collide
Alice Feng 12 Harker Upper School Honorable Mention Photography Tree of Life
Alice Feng 12 Harker Upper School Gold Key Photography Smile! You’re on camera!
Alice Feng 12 Harker Upper School Gold Key Photography Past Present Blurred
Alice Feng 12 Harker Upper School Honorable Mention Photography Chains of the Pandemic
Alice Feng 12 Harker Upper School Honorable Mention Photography A Sliver of Another World
Alice Feng 12 Harker Upper School Silver Key Photography Tropical Tint
Alice Feng 12 Harker Upper School Silver Key Photography Shaken Not Stirred
Alice Feng 12 Harker Upper School Honorable Mention Photography Watched
Sania Gupta 10 Harker Upper School Silver Key Drawing & Illustration Memories
Sonya He 11 Harker Upper School Honorable Mention Painting “Three Strangers Inside the Subway”
Sonya He 11 Harker Upper School Honorable Mention Painting The Dreamer
Angelina Hu 10 Harker Upper School Gold Key Digital Art Fish Cage
Angelina Hu 10 Harker Upper School Gold Key Drawing & Illustration Emergence
Ally Lee 11 Harker Upper School Gold Key Digital Art Joint Custody
Yueyao Li 9 Harker Upper School Silver Key Drawing & Illustration Eleven-Headed Guanyin
Yueyao Li 9 Harker Upper School Honorable Mention Drawing & Illustration Hermaphrodite
Michelle Liu 12 Harker Upper School Honorable Mention Painting Memento Mori
Michelle Liu 12 Harker Upper School Gold Key Painting Waiting
Michelle Liu 12 Harker Upper School Gold Key Painting Family Birthday
Sophia Liu 9 Harker Upper School Gold Key Digital Art Airplanes With Feathers
Claire Luo 10 Harker Upper School Honorable Mention Photography Twilight
Claire Luo 10 Harker Upper School Honorable Mention Photography Downpour
Claire Luo 10 Harker Upper School Silver Key Photography Anyone There?
Claire Luo 10 Harker Upper School Honorable Mention Photography Next in Line
Claire Luo 10 Harker Upper School Honorable Mention Photography Last Moments of Glory
Desiree Luo 10 Harker Upper School Honorable Mention Painting Reflection
Desiree Luo 10 Harker Upper School Silver Key Painting Tenacity
Aastha Mangla 11 Harker Upper School Honorable Mention Drawing & Illustration Into Wonderland
Brenna Ren 8 Harker Middle School Silver Key Drawing & Illustration Flowering Hope
Brenna Ren 8 Harker Middle School Silver Key Drawing & Illustration The Dress
Sophia Shan 11 Harker Upper School Gold Key Digital Art Vertigo
Alena Suleiman 10 Harker Upper School Gold Key Sculpture Behind the Fairy Tales
Alena Suleiman 10 Harker Upper School Honorable Mention Sculpture Gossamer Skeleton
Alena Suleiman 10 Harker Upper School Honorable Mention Sculpture Mimicry
Alysa Suleiman 12 Harker Upper School Honorable Mention Film & Animation A Taste of Home
Emily Tan 12 Harker Upper School Honorable Mention “Editorial Cartoon sponsored by The Herb Block Foundation” March on the Capitol
Nicole Tian 12 Harker Upper School Honorable Mention Sculpture Through the Looking Glass
Nicole Tian 12 Harker Upper School Honorable Mention Expanded Projects Pupa
Nicole Tian 12 Harker Upper School Honorable Mention Drawing & Illustration Still Life
Nicole Tian 12 Harker Upper School Gold Key Expanded Projects Marital Bliss
Nicole Tian 12 Harker Upper School Silver Key Sculpture Saving Face
Kurtis Tong 11 Harker Upper School Silver Key Painting Bred
Aimee Wang 12 Harker Upper School Honorable Mention Drawing & Illustration Shining
Aimee Wang 12 Harker Upper School Honorable Mention Painting High Summer
Aimee Wang 12 Harker Upper School Honorable Mention Painting Liminal Spaces
Kaitlyn Wang 10 Harker Upper School Honorable Mention Drawing & Illustration Creations of Mankind
Nicholas Wei 11 Harker Upper School Gold Key Photography Living Infinity
Esther Wu 12 Harker Upper School Honorable Mention Art Portfolio The Beauty of Nature
Austina Xu 11 Harker Upper School Silver Key Printmaking Harbor
Austina Xu 11 Harker Upper School Honorable Mention Painting White Calla Lily Flowers
Kathy Xu 11 Harker Upper School Silver Key Photography “Avocado (half 161 Cal) Toast (1 slice)
Kathy Xu 11 Harker Upper School Silver Key Photography Race You To The Top
Olivia Xu 10 Harker Upper School Gold Key Photography Wildflower
Cecilia Yang 10 Harker Upper School Honorable Mention Drawing & Illustration Lingering Warmth
Alina Yuan 12 Harker Upper School Silver Key Painting Beach Days
Alina Yuan 12 Harker Upper School Honorable Mention Drawing & Illustration Jellyfish
Alina Yuan 12 Harker Upper School Honorable Mention Drawing & Illustration Beauty of Smile
Alina Yuan 12 Harker Upper School Silver Key Comic Art Glowing Path of the Generations
Alina Yuan 12 Harker Upper School Silver Key Comic Art Recolorized
Alina Yuan 12 Harker Upper School Gold Key Photography Hope cannot be quarantined!
Katelyn Zhao 10 Harker Upper School Silver Key Drawing & Illustration Untitled
Emily Zhou 12 Harker Upper School Honorable Mention Photography Gasping Garden
Emily Zhou 12 Harker Upper School Honorable Mention Photography Praying for Rain
Emily Zhou 12 Harker Upper School Honorable Mention Photography Friend and Foe
Gloria Zhu 12 Harker Upper School Honorable Mention Drawing & Illustration Confronted
Gloria Zhu 12 Harker Upper School Silver Key Expanded Projects Restless
Gloria Zhu 12 Harker Upper School Honorable Mention Painting Corner of the Room

Writing Awards:

NAME GRADE TITLE CATEGORY AWARD(S)
Malar Bala 12 Unarranged Short Story Honorable Mention
Ava Bhowmik 8 Longevity Noodles Personal Essay & Memoir Silver Key
Iris Cai 9 fantasia through the keys Poetry Silver Key
Iris Cai 9 Ode to Sweet Tomatoes Poetry Silver Key
Iris Cai 9 I Want To Be an Author Personal Essay & Memoir Honorable Mention
Iris Cai 9 the depths below Poetry Gold Key
Shareen Chahal 10 Rosaline Poetry Honorable Mention
Shareen Chahal 10 Cage of Expectations Poetry Silver Key
Brian Chen 11 The Man Personal Essay & Memoir Honorable Mention
Catherine Feng 12 On Mercy Poetry Honorable Mention
Varun Fuloria 10 Addressing the Real Immigration Threat Critical Essay Silver Key
Varun Fuloria 10 Diversity in Journalism: A News Beginning Critical Essay Honorable Mention
Varun Fuloria 10 Not Much to Like: Social Media’s Power and Problems Critical Essay Honorable Mention
Emma Gao 10 Lessons from a Bug Bite Personal Essay & Memoir Honorable Mention
Emma Gao 10 Youth Homeless in Santa Clara County Struggle Unseen Journalism Silver Key
Emma Gao 10 Women in The Odyssey: Wielding Their Power in an Oppressive Society Critical Essay Silver Key
Helen Gu 8 Dictionary Words Poetry Gold Key
Dyllan Han 11 Fading Light Science Fiction & Fantasy Silver Key
Trisha Iyer 10 Blood & Bone Poetry Honorable Mention
Trisha Iyer 10 girl•friend Poetry Honorable Mention
Trisha Iyer 10 Language Lessons Poetry Honorable Mention
Trisha Iyer 10 RBG Poetry Silver Key
Trisha Iyer 10 Great-grandchildren Poetry Silver Key
Trisha Iyer 10 The Names Poetry Honorable Mention
Trisha Iyer 10 Matriarchs, Proceeding Like Queens Poetry Silver Key
David Jang 10 Afghanistan: A New Entry to America’s Growing List of Embarrassments Journalism Silver Key
Laurie Jin 11 Earth’s Climate Before the Industrial Revolution Journalism Honorable Mention
Michelle Jin 11 Embracing Neurodiversity: An Abecedarian Poetry Honorable Mention
Michelle Jin 11 The Authoritarian’s Message Flash Fiction Honorable Mention
Michelle Jin 11 Aging: Grasping Onto New Identities Personal Essay & Memoir Honorable Mention
Lindsay Li 8 the solace of the dark (where you once walked) Flash Fiction Honorable Mention
Lindsay Li 8 glass & crystal Science Fiction & Fantasy Gold Key
Lindsay Li 8 Hansel and Gretel as Told by a Bird (and a Cat, I Guess) Humor Silver Key
Raeanne Li 7 Greenish Science Fiction & Fantasy Honorable Mention
Sydney Ling 10 the art of a movie still Poetry Silver Key
Sydney Ling 10 She’s a Maneater: Jennifer’s Body and How the Boy-Run Media Makes Women Seem Crazy Critical Essay Gold Key
Sydney Ling 10 To All the Grades I’ve Gotten Before: As an Asian American Student in the Bay Area, I Never Feel Like I’m Good Enough Critical Essay Gold Key
Sydney Ling 10 Generation Zine: The Zine Scene and Everything In-Between Journalism Gold Key
Desiree Luo 10 Opinion: Before paying college athletes, treat them as students Journalism Silver Key
Anika Maji 10 The Waiting Game Science Fiction & Fantasy Honorable Mention
Anika Maji 10 Beholden Flash Fiction Gold Key
Katerina Matta 9 Measured in Moments Personal Essay & Memoir Silver Key
Sarah Fathima Mohammed 11 Swimming Lessons Poetry Gold Key
Kabir Ramzan 10 Environmental Influences on the Aztec and Egyptian Civilizations in Society and Religion Critical Essay Honorable Mention
Lily Shi 8 Two Truths and a Lie Flash Fiction Gold Key
Ishani Sood 10 Bhaiya Personal Essay & Memoir Honorable Mention
Alysa Suleiman 12 Confronting Conformity, Redefining Identity Critical Essay Silver Key
Alysa Suleiman 12 When the Sun Drowned Short Story Gold Key
Alysa Suleiman 12 Pulse of the people: Not a new issue Journalism Honorable Mention
Kairui Sun 8 Censorship Short Story Honorable Mention
Kairui Sun 8 Snapshots Poetry Silver Key
Andrea Thia 12 Something I Wrote During Quarantine, But Never Knew I Loved Poetry Honorable Mention
Nicole Tian 12 Double-consciousness And the Outside Gaze in The Bluest Eye: Toni Morrison’s Gendering of W.E.B. Dubois’ Black Selfhood Critical Essay Honorable Mention
Sara Wan 11 Pork and Cabbage Wonton Soup Personal Essay & Memoir Honorable Mention
Cynthia Wang 10 That One Girl Short Story Honorable Mention
Cynthia Wang 10 Oceans Apart Short Story Honorable Mention
Cynthia Wang 10 when they grow up Poetry Gold Key
Cynthia Wang 10 Truly Trinity Flash Fiction Honorable Mention
Kaitlyn Wang 10 Little Philosophers in the Garden Personal Essay & Memoir Honorable Mention
Arianna Weaver 12 Making Amends Short Story Silver Key
Nicholas Wei 11 The Dust in the Wake Personal Essay & Memoir Gold Key
Nicholas Wei 11 Come, Child Poetry Honorable Mention
Austina Xu 11 A Realism of Romance in Shakespeare’s Sonnet 138 Critical Essay Honorable Mention
Austina Xu 11 An Examination of the Portrayal of Religion in “Dover Beach,” “The Second Coming,” and “Church Going” Critical Essay Honorable Mention
Austina Xu 11 Ode to the Kitchen God Poetry Honorable Mention
Kathy Xu 11 Black Lives Matter and Retail: The Commodification of Oppression Critical Essay Silver Key
Olivia Xu 10 Spinning with Positivity Journalism Silver Key
Selina Xu 10 Childhood Travels Personal Essay & Memoir Honorable Mention
Fiona Yan 10 The Light in the Darkness Flash Fiction Honorable Mention
Alison Yang 9 Save Money, Live Better Flash Fiction Silver Key
Alison Yang 9 Ditching the Maps Personal Essay & Memoir Silver Key
Cecilia Yang 10 Empress Wu Zetian and Joan of Arc: Women Who Rose to Power in a Patriarchal Society Critical Essay Honorable Mention
Cecilia Yang 10 The Observatory Short Story Honorable Mention
Chloee Yang 8 Fallen Angel Poetry Silver Key
Irene Yuan 12 Three Vignettes Short Story Honorable Mention
Ariel Zhang 8 white gold Poetry Silver Key
Ariel Zhang 8 goldfinch Poetry Honorable Mention
William Zhang 10 Strength, Cunning, and Courage: Qualities Most Valued in a Male Hero in the Odyssey Critical Essay Honorable Mention
William Zhang 10 “Utopian” Absolutism In The Tempest Critical Essay Silver Key
William Zhang 10 Comparing and Contrasting the Value of Ibn Battuta’s and Zheng He’s Cross-Cultural Exchanges Critical Essay Honorable Mention
Tina Tianjiao Zhong 12 Indifferent Redeemers: How Hawthorne, Fitzgerald, and Lahiri’s Protagonists Love Indifferent Social Insiders. Critical Essay Silver Key
Emily Zhou 12 Grandma Personal Essay & Memoir Honorable Mention
Emily Zhou 12 Climate Change: Ocean Blues Personal Essay & Memoir Honorable Mention
Sabrina Zhu 11 Frankenstein as a Parable: Analyzing the Consequences of Ambition and Advice Critical Essay Honorable Mention
Sabrina Zhu 11 Finding purpose through filmmaking: Ajay Madala captures stories and exhibits his individuality in movies Journalism Honorable Mention
Sally Zhu 11 Sestina After 20 Months Poetry Honorable Mention
Sally Zhu 11 Slime and stickers for sale: Students take charge through small businesses Journalism Honorable Mention
Sally Zhu 11 Humans of Harker: A force to be reckoned with Journalism Silver Key
Sally Zhu 11 To Shangqiu and Back Short Story Honorable Mention
Tiffany Zhu 8 Nights Without My Brother Poetry Honorable Mention
Tiffany Zhu 8 A Greek Movement Poetry Silver Key
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