Harker’s varsity boys volleyball team is on a serious tear this season. Here’s a great interview of the team on 49er CalHi Sports: https://youtu.be/FACLl1ULZIw?t=2906
KCBS Radio noted Harker sophomore Maria Teplova’s art is on display at the New Museum in Los Gatos
Each year, Harker students participate in a forum on the dangers of nuclear proliferation, often traveling to Japan to join adults addressing the questions in an international forum.
Harker Preschool teachers Nina Smith and Robyn Stone collaborated on a fascinating article about how children react to learning about pill bugs. https://issuu.com/caaeyc/docs/spring_19
Students from @harkerschool met our undergraduate @HumanAtStanford fellows to discuss their respective honors theses—on topics ranging from philosophy to bilingualism, T.S. Eliot to homelessness, jazz in 1960s America to student movements in 1960s Mexico. 📷 Harrison Truong pic.twitter.com/NWBPFWRF03
— Stanford Humanities Center (@HumanAtStanford) February 8, 2019
The big news at Harker in January was that seven students were named Regeneron Science Talent Search Top 300 winners and three were chosen as finalists. Numerous articles highlighted this international story.
Mercury News columnist Sal Pizarro was kind enough to give Harker’s Taylor Eigsti appearance a shout out in his Oct. 16 column, in which he also mentioned the new Rothschild Performing Arts Center (RPAC).
HMH Landscape Architecture company noted the landscaping around the Saratoga campus’ new athletic center and RPAC in its blog.
Niche.com released a list of top STEM high schools, and the San Francisco Chronicle ran an article noting Harker’s high school is at the top of the heap in California and No. 2 in the United States.
This Tech & Learning article notes Sriram Bhimaraju, grade 7, earned fourth place at the 2018 Discover Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge for the development of an Archery Assistant app that improves an archer’s accuracy by correcting form in real-time using a Bluetooth sensor.
Audiovideosr noted Harker’s RPAC audio system in a blog post.
Great news for recent alumnus Rajiv Movva ’18! He is one of 20 students nationwide awarded a Davidson Fellows Scholarship for his project, “SNPpet: Deep Learning the Human Epigenome Reveals Regulatory Sequence Patterns and Genomic Mechanisms of Disease.” He is one of only 20 students across the country to receive this honor.
Former Harker football position coach Brennan Marion has been named offensive coordinator for Howard University prior to the 2017 season. His first coaching position was at West Valley College (Calif.) as a strength coach, and in 2012 he worked as a position coach at The Harker School.
This article notes that Katherine Zhu, rising senior, has qualified for the U.S. Girls Junior Golf Championships in mid-July. http://www.montereyherald.com/sports/20180619/us-girls-junior-golf-championship-opens-lid-on-packed-year-for-golf-in-monterey
This interesting branded article by Toyota Prius lists top STEM schools, and Harker made the list.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/international-business/top-stem-institutions-near-you-to-get-your-kids-enrolled/articleshow/64678505.cms
Patch has noted Harker student Sriram Bhimaraju, rising seventh grader, of Cupertino, was a finalist in the Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge. https://patch.com/california/santamonica/middle-school-student-named-finalist-young-scientist-challenge
Here are two articles on the sound system installed in the Rothschild Performing Arts Center and Patil Theater:
http://www.etnow.com/news/2018/6/ashly-nx-series-amp-takes-on-the-70-volt-system-at-the-harker-schools-new-auditorium
Consumer website Varesha.com ran an interesting article about leasing clothing in India, which included a big section on PromElle, the prom dress leasing app by Harker juniors Nishka Ayyar and Riya Gupta.
A number of articles celebrating the 2018 Presidential Scholars were published in numerous media. Harker’s Jacqueline He, grade 12, was named a Presidential Scholar for the Arts this year.
Palo Alto Online wrote a nice article that included Enid Davis, former director of libraries at Harker. Davis has written lyrics for the play, “A New Style of Jeans,” using songs in the popular domain. The show was performed in early June at Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts.
NBC interviewed Harker student Prameela Kottapalli, grade 11, about her winning essay entered in the “Growing Up Asian In America” contest. She was interviewed on NBC’s Asian Pacific America with Robert Handa.