As a top 10 finalist in this year's 3M Young Scientist Challenge, eighth grader Reshma Kosaraju is eligible to win the Improving Lives Award. Voting is now open!
As a top 10 finalist in this year's 3M Young Scientist Challenge, eighth grader Reshma Kosaraju is eligible to win the Improving Lives Award. Voting is now open!
On Saturday, a team of Harker students won the US Department of Energy’s Regional Science Bowl, held at Stanford University’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. It was Harker’s third victory in four years. The team – made up of sophomores David Dai, Harsh Deep, Rishab Parthasarathy, William Zhao and senior Emily Liu – went undefeated the […]
Last month, seniors Finn Frankis and Sahil Gosain, juniors Arya Maheshwari and Saloni Shah, sophomore Sasvath Ramachandran and freshman Tiffany Chang competed at the 2020 US Invitational Young Physicists Tournament, held at Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, N.H. Each team took part in a “physics fight,” in which students present their solutions and are questioned […]
A team of computer scientists including Anand Natarajan ’09 recently published a proof that has solved “a raft of open problems in computer science, physics and mathematics,” writes Quanta Magazine’s Kevin Hartnett.
Harker eighth graders Anish Jain, Jordan Labio, Kyle Leung and Vardaan Ghai received an Honorable Mention in the Toshiba/National Science Teaching Association ExploraVision contest, one of the world’s largest student science competitions. Honorable Mentions are given to the top 10% of submissions, of which there are about 5,000 every year. The students developed their project, […]
Harker students had another great year in the Technology Student Association’s annual TEAMS (Tests of Engineering, Aptitude, Mathematics and Science) competition, with four teams taking top spots in California. The team of freshmen Rohan Bhowmik, Brian Chen, Riya Gupta, Nicholas Wei, Stephen Xia, Sabrina Zhu, Sally Zhu and sophomore Alex Hu took first place in […]
Harker students had a great showing at the 2020 Synopsys Science & Technology Championship, winning multiple first awards and grand prizes. Eighth graders Gautam Bhooma and Ramit Goyal were each grand prize winners, and also won first awards along with fellow eighth graders Zachary Blue, Alex Guo, Jordan Labio, Nathan Liu, Ella Lan and Heidi […]
In May, lower school science teacher Enni Chen’s kindergarten and grade 2 students submitted photos and videos of experiments they conducted at home. For a lesson in capillary action — the mechanism by which liquid flows through narrow spaces — students such as kindergartner Nora Yen placed paper towels into cups of colored water, resulting […]
Last week, middle school science teacher Tamar Hawk invited environmental activist Tiffany Duong ‘02 to speak with her students about careers in environmental advocacy. Duong, who attended Harker from first grade through grade 12 and was a member of the upper school’s first graduating class, delivered an overview of how she became interested in environmental […]
This summer, middle schoolers with a passion for scientific research enrolled in the Summer Science Research Society (SSRS), a special class in which the students do individual research on topics of their interest and report on their findings. On the final day of the class, students will present the results of their research to their […]
Yesterday, the Society for Science & the Public announced that 15 Harker students -- a school record -- are among the top 300 contestants in the 2020 Broadcom MASTERS program.
Last week, freshman Sriram Bhimaraju received the third place Wells Fargo Community Innovation Award in Arizona State University’s Sustainability Solutions Science Fair at the middle school level.
Last week, Dr. Abigail Joseph, middle school LID director, was appointed to the Computer Science Teachers Association’s Board of Directors.
Junior Riyaa Randhawa was recently published in the Milbank Quarterly, a peer-reviewed journal that covers health care policy.
Senior Hari Bhimaraju recently published a paper in the Biometrics & Biostatistics International Journal, a peer-reviewed journal specializing in biological sciences and public health.
On Jan. 7, the Society for Science and the public announced that seniors Shray Alag, Saloni Shah, Aditya Tadimeti and Sidra Xu were named four of the top 300 scholars in the 2021 Regeneron Science Talent Search.
Simar Bajaj ‘20 was recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine, one of the most prestigious peer-reviewed medical journals.
Last week, Simar Bajaj ‘20 gave a presentation to Harker students to expand on the points made in an essay he co-wrote that was published in the New England Journal of Medicine in January. In the piece, he and Dr. Fatima Stanford argue that distrust of COVID-19 vaccinations among Black Americans is the result of […]
Raji Swaminathan, middle school science teacher, recently published the third book in her series about the elements. As with the previous two entries, this book follows Atom and her dog, Electron, as they travel visit the elements via a magic periodic table. The book is currently available to purchase through Amazon and will be available […]