After a Harker career spanning 40 years, Cindy Ellis, middle school division head, announced that she will retire at the end of the 2017-18 school year.
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Success for lower and middle school chess competitors at national championship
Harker chess players had a very successful weekend at the U.S. National Game/30 and Game/60 Championships in Santa Clara.
Fall sports keep rolling; soccer alum gets her first collegiate game goal
Read all about it! From a great Homecoming game to an alumna’s first goals as a collegiate player, the sports report has it all!
Upper school science teacher embarks on NOAA’s Teacher at Sea program
Upper school science teacher Kate Schafer began a two-week survey in the Gulf of Mexico studying shark and red snapper populations — faculty development at its best!
Middle school students learn social safety skills at KidPower sessions
Over a period of three weeks, middle school students attended special talks by the international nonprofit organization KidPower.
Winged Post named a finalist for NSPA Pacemaker award
Harker’s upper school student newspaper is one of 49 student newspapers identified as finalists in the National Scholastic Press Association’s 2017 Pacemaker competition, out of 275 applicants.
Grade 7 student named to top 300 in Broadcom MASTERS competition
Last week, Nidhya Shivakumar, grade 7, was named one of the top 300 students nationwide in this year’s Broadcom MASTERS science competition.
Forty-six seniors named semifinalists in 2018 National Merit Scholarship Program
The National Merit Scholarship Corpopration (NMSC) named 46 Harker seniors, about 25% of the class of 2017, semifinalists in the 2018 program.
MS and LS chess players take second place as a team at Labor Day weekend tournament
Chess players from grades 3, 4, 5 and 7 all competed in the 2017 Labor Day Kids Championship in Santa Clara.
Lower school students introduce VR technology; make virtual trek to Japan
It was a special day for some grade 3 language arts students who became the first at Harker to use virtual reality (VR) technology as a teaching tool in the classroom.