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10/23/2025

This is part two of how to make apple pie potstickers with Aquila. With your filling prepared, follow along for the final steps of putting together this cozy treat!

10/23/2025

As the hot summer cools down into breezy fall, a perfect way ease into the “-ber” months is making cozy fall recipes. Bring some spice into your fall season by following along Aquila’s tutorial for warm and sweet apple pie potstickers.

Videography by Chelsea Xie
Editing by Chelsea Xie

10/18/2025

Spirit Week may be over but that doesn’t mean the dress up has to end! Take a look at what students are wearing today in our latest Friday Fit-check!

Fall Spirit Week concluded with the annual advisory parade and rally in the Zhang gymnasium, where the juniors claimed f...
10/17/2025

Fall Spirit Week concluded with the annual advisory parade and rally in the Zhang gymnasium, where the juniors claimed first place today. 

Harker Spirit Leadership Team announced the Fall Spirit Week standings: Juniors won first place with 1075 points, sophomores earned second with 1025 points, seniors placed third with 800 points and frosh placed last with 353 points. 

“A lot of different people worked very hard to achieve one goal,” junior Ameera Ramzan said. “For Lip Sync, it was almost every single morning office hours, practicing wherever we could make our dance moves, acting and blocking perfectly. Our eagle painters were there till the late hours of spirit night finishing up our eagle. We saw our relay captains and representatives giving it their all.”

Full article: https://harkeraquila.com/91778/news/fall-spirit-week-day-4-classes-clash-in-spirit-week-showdown/

Reporters: Eva Cheng, Suhani Gupta, Lily Peng, Claire Tian and Saria Lum
Photographer: Eva Cheng

Students channeled the wild outdoors as they dressed up in wilderness-themed outfits for the third day of Fall Spirit We...
10/16/2025

Students channeled the wild outdoors as they dressed up in wilderness-themed outfits for the third day of Fall Spirit Week today.

Many students wore camo clothing and some sported bear and tiger costumes, while accessories ranged from binoculars and ranger hats to cameras and walkie talkies. Others deviated from the typical green or brown attire and opted to embody the wilderness in more unconventional ways. 

Junior David Tang donned a bright blue scarf, mittens and a beanie. 

“It was really chilly this morning, so I decided to go as an Arctic explorer because I had lots of winter gear,” David said. “This theme in general, Wilderness Wednesday, there’s a lot of room for interpretation. For example, I also saw a lot of grizzly bears and that was really fun.”

Full article: https://harkeraquila.com/91768/news/fall-spirit-week-day-3-wilderness-wednesday-outfits-chart-new-trails/

Reporters: Cynthia Xie, Shreyas Karnam, William Jiang, and Sam Li
Photographer: Cynthia Xie

Students donned color-coordinated outfits to show off their class pride for the second day of Fall Spirit Week on Tuesda...
10/15/2025

Students donned color-coordinated outfits to show off their class pride for the second day of Fall Spirit Week on Tuesday. 

Frosh, sophomores, juniors and seniors transformed the campus into a sea of white, black, yellow and green. To earn spirit points, students had to include at least one correctly colored element in their outfit and accessories that ranged from hats, beaded necklaces and sunglasses to face paint, capes, and tutus. 

Some colors are more common in wardrobes than others, making dress-up a greater challenge for certain classes. Junior Jessica Skylar Chen explained the difficulties the juniors  face when dressing up for class color day.

“Class of 2027 has the most difficult color because not a lot of people have highlighter yellow things in their wardrobe,” Jessica said. “It’s really difficult for our class to turn up, but this year we’re really going up and above, and it’s something that I’m really proud of. I love seeing people get more and more spirited as the years go by and develop that kind of class spirit.”

Full article: https://harkeraquila.com/91750/news/fall-spirit-week-day-2-campus-lights-up-with-class-colors/

Reporters: Aahana Sharma, Chelsea Xie and Lily Shi
Photographers: Chelsea Xie and Lily Shi

Fall Spirit Week kicked off with class theme dress-ups and an “Are You Smarter than a Teacher?” game outside Manzanita H...
10/14/2025

Fall Spirit Week kicked off with class theme dress-ups and an “Are You Smarter than a Teacher?” game outside Manzanita Hall today.

Each grade wore outfits matching their own world from the overarching theme of “Into the Harkerverse”, with seniors as magic, juniors as zombie apocalypse, sophomores as outer space and frosh as underwater. 

SAB member and HSLT community events secretary Megha Unny (11) helped plan the dress-up themes and games for the week and believes that the dress-ups encourage class bonding.

“Dressing up is my favorite part of spirit because it’s one of the few things that everybody can do,” Megha said. “Everybody contributes to the points, and it makes me happy because we’re all working together.”

Full article: https://harkeraquila.com/91733/news/fall-spirit-week-day-1-class-themes-trivia-game-launch-into-the-harker-verse/

Reporters: Emma Li, Caden Ruan and Lily Peng
Photographers: Lily Shi and Lily Peng

10/11/2025

We’re back with another Friday Fit-check! As the seasons change and schoolwork picks up, take a look at how these students are blending comfort and style.

Videography by Lily Shi and Eva Cheng
Editing by Eva Cheng

10/07/2025

From organizing her gear to getting in the right mindset, varsity girls golf player Joyce He (11) takes us through her pre-match routine.

Videography by Eva Cheng and Saria Lum
Editing by Eva Cheng and Saria Lum

10/04/2025

We’re back with a special edition of Friday Fit-checks: Today, the seniors held a performative class dress up day. Check out how these students channeled their inner Clairo-listening, matcha-sipping energy through wired earbuds, Labubus and feminist literature.

Videography by Eva Cheng and Lily Shi
Editing by Eva Cheng

For the first time in school history, the varsity girls volleyball team will compete in the homecoming game against Bran...
10/03/2025

For the first time in school history, the varsity girls volleyball team will compete in the homecoming game against Branham High School on Davis Field on Saturday at 6:30 p.m. The match will take the place of the traditional football game, which was cancelled due to safety concerns over a small roster.

This shift offers the varsity girls volleyball team an opportunity to compete in front of a larger audience than ever before. 
“I was conflicted, knowing this is a tough situation for the football team, but at the same time thrilled for my team,” Head Coach Theresa Smith said. “I’m happy that the girls are being given a chance to put their game on display under the lights. They have earned this moment, and they deserve it.”

Yesterday, the athletics department began transforming Davis Field for the match, preparing the court by laying out flooring panels with surface tread for traction on the turf. They will also install two sets of temporary bleachers behind the end lines to maximize seating and bring fans closer to the court. Varsity girls volleyball setter Brooke Kubose (12) expressed the team’s enthusiasm to play for the entire Harker community.

“We don’t usually get such a big crowd, so everyone’s really excited to be the center of attention for once,” Brooke said. “Usually when we have games there’s not many people — the people that come are for senior night or our parents — so we’re really excited to show off our skills to everyone.”

Full article: https://harkeraquila.com/91080/sports/fall-sports/tradition-transformed-varsity-girls-volleyball-headlines-homecoming/

Reporters: Eva Cheng and Lily Shi
Photographer: Lily Peng

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