Students Ramp Up Kiva Loans for Foreign Entrepreneurs
Cyrus Merrill’s grade 6 advisory recently stepped up their Kiva loans efforts, adding to their roster of lendees a jewelry maker in Peru, a…
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Common Ground Speaker Series Kickoff Oct. 4 Includes Harker Appearance
The Common Ground speaker program kicks off this year with Paul Stoltz, Ph.D., speaking on resilience and optimism; he will be appearing at Harker on…
Student Receives Recognition and Grant for Charitable Work
Raghav Sehtia, grade 11, was recently recognized for his efforts to fight hunger by being named a 2011 Stephen J. Brady STOP Hunger Regional…
Alumnus Working on Saving Lives at Birth Project
Siddarth Satish ’06 is part of a team at Stanford working on the USAIDS/Gates Foundation project Saving Lives at Birth. The group is one…
Institute Brings New Technology, Techniques to Bay Area Educators
On June 15, Harker held its sixth annual Harker Teacher Institute to give educators around the Bay Area the chance to learn about how…
Lapidous and Indukuri Share Podium with Energy Secretary
[Update: June 16, 2011] The appearance of Shreya Indukuri and Daniela Lapidous at the White House Smart Grid conference was noted in an article in…
Eighth Graders Raise Money for Children’s Hospital
In early May a representative of the Shriners Hospitals for Children – Sacramento came to Harker’s middle school to accept a $1,200 check from the…
Defying Rain, Cancer Walkers Raise Thousands
The portents of rain weren’t enough to keep students, parents, faculty and staff from once again swarming the Blackford campus on April 13 for…
Gay Straight Alliance Releases Inaugural Newsletter
The Harker Gay Straight Alliance (GSA) released the inaugural edition of its newsletter in early April. “The Rainbow Connection” contains a variety of interviews, personal…
Green Girls Address Thousands, Including U.S. CTO and ARPA-Energy Head in D.C.
April 29, 2011 Update: Aneesh Chopra, U.S. chief technology officer, has written an extensive blog about his visit with Daniela Lapidous and Shreya Indukuri, both grade…