Category: News

Hats for Haiti program started by the Creasman family
March 5th, 2010 at 12:12 pm

Mariko Creasman, mother of Alex (12) and Adam (’08), recently started a program entitled Hats for Haiti. She donates her time to making and selling hats in order to gather money for relief.
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Vandalism hits bathrooms on campus
March 5th, 2010 at 6:45 am

There has been routine clogging of the toilets of the girls’ bathroom in Main Hall by excessive toilet paper, toiletries, and even food. Students, maintenance, and administration are all flummoxed...
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Sophomores present at annual Teens in Tech conference
February 18th, 2010 at 1:55 pm

On Saturday, February 6, Google’s offices in San Francisco held the annual Teens in Tech Conference and hosted 13 speakers, two of whom were sophomores Daniela Lapidous and Shreya Indukuri. ...
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Successful annual blood drive held
February 9th, 2010 at 10:31 am

The Red Cross Club hosted the annual blood drive on Wednesday, February 3, with Blood Centers of the Pacific. Faculty, staff, parents, and students participated in donating blood in order to help out...
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Soccer fundraiser delivers a blow to cancer
February 4th, 2010 at 2:53 pm

Kicking a habit is hard; kicking a disease is harder. Led by the pink-uniformed soccer teams and connected by the same cause, the school community rallied for Kicks Against Cancer on January 13 to do...
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STANFORD STUDY: Upper School serves as model for discovery
February 1st, 2010 at 7:16 am

Though weeks have elapsed since the Stanford University contact network experiment on January 14, researchers are still downloading data from the motes before they can begin the initial stages of data...
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Second Intel competition finalist in school history
January 31st, 2010 at 4:12 pm

On January 26, Namrata Anand (12) was announced to the school as an Intel Science Talent Search Finalist. Mark Pettinger returned with yet another check to reward her research efforts in the field of...
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Searching for answers: team sweeps trivia competition
January 15th, 2010 at 1:01 pm

What was the name of the lightning-speed competition that Olivia Zhu (11), Andrew Zhou (12), and Brandon Araki (12) won on January 9? Although that was not one of their winning questions, Quiz Kids...
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Live learn and lead: Small group of upper school students win two gold awards
January 14th, 2010 at 1:57 pm

From January 8 to 10, 16 students from Harker Business Club (HBC) traveled to San Ramon’s Marriott Hotel and competed in a business conference for the Distributive Education Clubs of America (DECA)....
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Earthquake jolts campus
January 7th, 2010 at 4:30 pm

Thursday, January 7, at 10:09:35 a.m., an earthquake of magnitude 4.1 on the Richter scale occurred near Milpitas. With a depth of 9 km, the quake was shallow. However, it was still felt at Harker,...
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