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College Board: Eight perfect 2017 AP exam scores by Harker students and ’17 alumna
............................................................... Rothschild Performing Arts Center and its Patil Theater open to admiring crowd of nearly 700 Feb. 2, 2018 https://wp.me/pOeLQ-8WD The Rothschild Performing Arts Center opened tonight to an excited crowd of nearly 700 visitors. The state-of-the-art facility opened its doors at 6:30 p.m. to a throng of students, parents, faculty and staff, alumni, alumni parents and guests.
Photo by Jacqueline Orrell
Guests included Jeff and Marieke Rothschild, for whom the facility is named, and Suhas and Jayashree
Patil, daughter Dr. Teja Patil ’02, family members DJ and Devika Patil and their children, Veyd, grade 6 and Samaara, grade 3, for whom the 450-seat theater is named. Other guests of honor included Diana Nichols, board of trustees chair, and members of the architectural and construction teams, as well as many of the major donors. “It is a gorgeous building,” said Marieke Rothschild. “Harker has been known for its STEM students, and deservedly so, but the talent that is here in the arts – this gives them a home.”
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Middle school math students are big winners at regional MathCounts competition Feb. 20, 2018 https://wp.me/pOeLQ-8ZH Harker middle school students had a great showing at the Santa Clara Valley MathCounts competition on Feb. 10, winning the team event and setting a new Harker record with four students earning perfect scores. In individual competition, eighth graders Alexander Hu, Mark Hu and Rishab Parthasarathy and seventh grader Sally Zhu all had perfect scores of 46, demonstrating the level of competition in the Santa Clara Valley chapter, which “is known to be the toughest chapter for MathCounts in the country,” said middle school math teacher Vandana Kadam. Connie Jiang, grade 7, took second with 45 points. Grade 8 students David Dai, Rohan Thakur and Kevin Wang, as well as Riya Gupta, grade 7, placed in the top 25 percent at the event, which featured more than 400 competitors from 46 schools. The team of Hu, Parthasarathy, Zhu and eighth grader William Zhao won the team competition by a slim margin, inching past Miller Middle School by just a quarter of a point. Qualifiers from the state competition will travel to Washington, D.C., for the MathCounts National Championship in May.
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HARK E R MAGA Z I N E l S P RI N G/S UM M E R 2018
Feb. 21, 2018 https://wp.me/pOeLQ-909 Late last month, the College Board revealed that seven Harker students and one 2017 alumna received perfect scores on Advanced Placement exams they took in May 2017, earning every possible point as well as the maximum score of five. Seniors Akhil Arun and Adriano Hernandez and 2017 graduate Divya Rajasekharan earned three of just 60 perfect scores on the AP Macroeconomics exam, while senior Vignesh Panchanatham earned one of only 26 perfect scores in AP Microeconomics. On the AP Computer Science A exam, senior Swapnil Garg, junior Ryan Adolf and sophomores Eileen Li and Kyle Li earned four of 112 perfect scores. Harker was one of just 17 schools that had four or more students earn perfect scores on AP exams last year. According to the College Board, nearly 5 million AP exams were taken by almost 3 million students in 2017. Only 511 students earned every possible point.
............................................................... A trio of Harker alumni make Forbes 30 Under 30 lists for 2018 Feb. 26, 2018 https://wp.me/pOeLQ-90J Three Harker alumni were named to this year’s Forbes 30 Under 30 lists, which feature 600 young stars in 20 different industries. Siddarth Satish ’06, founder of Gauss Surgical in Cupertino, was selected in the healthcare category. Forbes noted, “Using the iPad’s built-in camera and computer vision algorithms, Siddarth Satish has developed an FDA-cleared app to monitor blood loss in the OR.”