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 |