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Research Symposium goes online for 15th anniversary

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From April 9-10, Harker hosted the 15th annual Research Symposium, inviting the Harker community to experience the breadth of its research opportunities by viewing student presentations and hearing keynote speakers deliver fascinating talks on the theme of this year’s event: artificial intelligence, robotics and automation. The 2020 symposium was canceled due to safety concerns caused […]

Harker takes top spots in TEAMS competition

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Harker students took top spots in the 2021 TEAMS (Tests of Engineering Aptitude, Mathematics and Science) competition, in which teams of students collaborate to solve real-world engineering problems. This year, TEAMS dispensed with a national finals event and issued scores based on state-level results.  Harker’s 11/12A team – juniors Harsh Deep, Alex Hu, Sasvath Ramachandran […]

Alumni research panel offers insight and advice to current students

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Earlier this month, the Harker Research Club hosted a panel with Vikas Bhetanabhotla ‘14, Cynthia Chen ‘20, Anastasiya Grebin ‘18 and Ruhi Sayana ‘19, who spoke about their post-high school careers and offered advice on how to find research opportunities. 

Bajaj ’20 co-authors two pieces published in medical journals

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Two manuscripts co-authored by Simar Bajaj ‘20 were published in medical journals “Nature Medicine” and “The Lancet.”

Six seniors named top 300 Regeneron scholars, most in California

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Six Harker seniors have been named to the top 300 scholars in the 2022 Regeneron Science Talent Search, the most of any California school.

Students take second place at Regional Science Bowl

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Last month, seniors Harsh Deep, Rishab Parthasarathy and William Zhao and juniors Jeremy Ko and Nicholas Wei took second place out of 30 teams at Virtual Regional Science Bowl.

Junior wins CSEF Project of the Year

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On April 22, junior Nicholas Wei was awarded the 2022 California Science and Engineering Fair Project of the Year.

Eight students named Broadcom MASTERS Top 300 scholars

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Eight Harker students were named two of the top 300 scholars in the 2022 Broadcom MASTERS competition.

Bajaj ’20 wins Foreign Press Association Science Story of the Year

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Bajaj's award for his story in the Guardian made him the youngest awardee in FPA history.

[UPDATED] Senior Sally Zhu named Regeneron finalist

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Seniors Rohan Bhowmik, Alexander Lan, Krish Maniar, Ashley Ruan, Deeya Viradia and Sally Zhu were named Top 300 Scholars in the 2023 Regeneron Science Talent Search.

Intel STS Winners Announced, Three Californians in Top 10

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The winners of the 2011 Intel Science Talent Search were announced Tuesday, and although Harker’s two finalists, Rohan Mahajan and Nikhil Parthasarathy, both grade 12, were not among top 10 winners, we are tremendously proud of their accomplishment in making it to the finals in Washington, D.C. Harker was the only school in the U.S. […]

A New California Record: Seven Intel Semifinalists

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Jan. 24, 2011 [Update] Semifinalists in Northern California have been written about by a number of news organizations, including in an extensive story by the San Jose Mercury News, a story at indiawest.com, a Chinese-language article at uschinapress.com and coverage of Cupertino students from number of schools in the Cupertino Courier. Intel has posted their recap, too! Jan. 12, 2011 Harker set […]

Harker Produces Record Number of Intel Semifinalists

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Six Harker seniors — Dominque Dabija, Daniel Kim, Elena Madan, Anand Natarajan, Vikram Nathan, and Denzil Sikka — have been named semifinalists in Intel’s Science Talent Search. This represents the highest number of semifinalists a single California school has produced since the contest began. The students each received $1,000 for this milestone, and are now […]

[Updated] Namrata Anand Named Intel Finalist

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Jan. 27, 2010: On the heels of the recent announcement of Harker’s four Intel Science Talent Search (STS) semifinalists, word came Jan. 27 that Namrata Anand, Gr. 12, was named a finalist in the contest. Anand, whose project analyzed the chemical composition of stars in the Andromeda galaxy, received $7,500 and will travel to Washington, […]

Harker teams earn recognition at 2018 Tech Challenge

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Over the weekend, four Harker teams from lower and middle school were award winners in the 2018 Tech Challenge Showcase, held at the Tech Museum in San Jose.

Harker is Only School in Nation With Two Intel Finalists

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Jan. 28, 2011 [Update] For video coverage of the Intel awards and interviews of students and others, see the Mountain View and Cupertino patch.com stories and videos, along with this Milpitas patch.com column, and check out the KTVU Channel 2 broadcast from the 6 p.m. news. Print articles include those by the San Jose Mercury News and the Cupertino […]

Senior’s Genome Project Covered in Wall Street Journal

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Anne West, grade 12, is featured in a front-page article in the Oct. 1 edition of The Wall Street Journal that chronicles her mission to analyze her family’s genome. John, Anne’s father, had the family’s genome sequenced last year after being diagnosed with a pulmonary embolism in 2003. However, the resulting mass of raw data […]

Senior Andrew Jin Wins First Place in Intel Science Talent Search

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Update April 1, 2015 Great interview with Andrew on his research when starting his project: http://www.broadinstitute.org/blog/broad-summer-scholar-wins-prestigious-intel-science-prize Update – Mar. 27, 2015 Today, Andrew was the subject of a news story in ChinaDaily, and earlier this week was featured in a TV news segment on the Chinese language network Sinovision. Update – Mar. 11, 2015 The Wall […]

Student Chemistry Paper Published in Top Journal

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In June, a paper co-authored by James Seifert, grade 12, was accepted to the chemistry journal Angewandte Chemie. Recognized as the top chemistry journal, Angewandte Chemie accepts fewer than five percent of the papers that are submitted for publication. The study, titled “Amphiphilic Self-Assembly of an n-Type Nanotube,” which was completed while Seifert worked in […]

Alumna’s Dream of Becoming a Published Writer by Age 18 Comes True

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Just shy of her 19th birthday, Jessica Lin ‘12 received word that her dream of becoming a published writer by the age of 18 had come true. Her short science fiction story titled “Mortar Flowers” was officially accepted for publication by Nature Journal, one of the world’s most cited interdisciplinary scientific periodicals. It marked the first […]
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