Freshmen Spend Day Volunteering at San Jose Municipal Rose Garden
In mid-October grade 9 students spent their “freshmen service day” volunteering at the San Jose Municipal Rose Garden. Freshmen service day is a mandatory, daylong event designed…
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Hoops & Scoops Charity Basketball Game Raises Money to Help Fight Muscular Dystrophy
The Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) was the real winner of a students versus faculty/staff basketball game held during a long lunch on Nov.12 in…
Upper School WiSTEM Club Holds Diabetes Awareness Week
In mid-November, Harker’s WiSTEM (Women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) Club held a Diabetes Awareness Week on the upper school campus. The goal…
Upper School Students Continue Tutoring Partnership with Local Elementary School
A group of Harker upper school students signed on to volunteer with The Tutoring Network (TTN), a Stanford-based nonprofit organization that offers free after-school…
Harker Senior Honored with First Community Service Spotlight Award of the School Year
Senior Mariam Sulakian was recently honored with a Harker Community Service Spotlight Award. During a Monday morning campus meeting in early November, she received…
Students Speak at Well-Attended ‘Challenge Success’ Event at Stanford
Representatives from Harker joined parents, students, educators and the general public at Stanford University for an engaging discussion about how to help students balance academic…
Senior Shares Love of Art with Youth in Hospitals and Homeless Shelters
Avni Barman, grade 12, has founded a successful art therapy program designed to bring the joy of art to local hospitals and homeless shelters.…
Winter 2013: Greater Good
This article originally appeared in the winter 2013 Harker Quarterly. Fundraiser Lets Dancers Shine Grade 6 students Aarzu Gupta and Radhika Jain took first place…
Lemonade Stand Provides Sweet Start for Summer Institute Participants
Providing a fun, sweet start to Harker’s Summer Institute (SI) program, a group of business-savvy students attending an SI finance class recently organized and…
A Golden Age for Harker Track & Cross Country
This article originally appeared in the winter 2013 Harker Quarterly. Last spring, as track and field season heated up, a funny thing happened: Harker records…