WiSTEM Goes All Out to Support Female Education
Written for Harker News [Online] by Ramya Rangan, grade 11, WiSTEM Publicity Officer This January many Harker upper school students found a new way to…
Mathematics
Harker Math Invitational Registration Open to Middle Schoolers
The Harker School is hosting its tenth annual math invitational on March 5, 2011, open to all middle school students in grades 6–8. Students…
Grades 4 and 5 Start Strong in CML Math Contest
In early November, lower school mathematicians participated in the first meet of the Continental Math League’s (CML) 2010-11 math contest. The meet required students…
Harker Places Well in High School Math Contest
In October, National Assessment & Testing (NAT) announced that a team of Harker mathematicians finished in sixth place out of 25 teams during the…
Thanksgiving is a Learning Opportunity in Grade 3 Math
Third-graders went to work before the Thanksgiving break on their annual Thanksgiving math project of planning a meal for 15. Students “shopped” for menu items…
Middle School eCYBERMISSION Team Tests Mercury Levels, Takes Action
This story was originally published in the Fall 2010 issue of Harker Quarterly For the fourth year in a row, Harker students claimed regional…
Summer Institute Students Discover New Passions
This story was originally published in the Fall 2010 issue of Harker Quarterly Harker junior Margaret Krackeler signed up to get a course out…
Students Take Top Spots in Hong Kong Math Competition
Five Harker students took high honors at the the 13th Po Leung Kuk Primary Mathematics World Contest (PMWC), held in July in Hong Kong.…
Gr. 4-5 Students Post Highest Scores Ever in In-House Math Contest
Gr. 4 and Gr. 5 students posted their highest scores ever during Harker’s annual in-house Math League contest in May. This year, 41 fifth-graders…
IBM Engineers Display Lego Robot Technology to Fifth Graders
Dazzling the Gr. 5 students with his cool Martian moves, Rudy the Rover made a guest appearance on the Bucknall campus March 26 in…