The Harker School

The spring middle school art exhibition featured amazing work from painters, illustrators and sculptors in grades 6-8, including a garden and farmers market with ceramic food that looked good enough to eat! 🌶️🥒🌽

On May 16, this year’s Harker Conservatory certificate graduates in instrumental music, vocal music, dance, musical theater, theater and technical theater were featured at the 25th annual Senior Showcase! Ankita Sharma '16 was also named this year's Life in the Arts awardee. Huge congratulations to this year’s graduates:

🎶 Instrumental Music: Sophia Bagley, Nandini Chandrashekhar, Eric D**g, Henry Fradin, Yash Greene, Simon Kirjner, Ishan Mysore, Rahul Sundaresan, Erika Wang

🎤 Vocal Music: Helen Gu, Aditya Ramanathan, Thomas Ryan, Taylor Summers, Audrey Yang

💃 Dance: Serena Lau, Nikhil Sharma, Selina Wang

🎭 Musical Theater: Lucy Campisi, Henry Fradin, Charlotte Ludlow, Simon Kirjner, Holly Templeton

📜 Theater: Ollie Masoni, Sathvik Vemulapalli

💡Technical Theater: Lucy Campisi, Nina Cracraft, Henry Fradin, Justin Yang

Before the Baccalaureate ceremony on May 15, 116 seniors had bricks placed into Graduates Grove at this year’s Brick Ceremony. 🧱☀️🤍 That evening, this year’s Lifer graduates headed to the lower school campus to reminisce at the annual Lifer Dinner!

Photos from the 2026 graduation ceremony at the Mountain Winery are now available to download via the Harker Portal! 🎓🎉💚

"[My father] always aimed to leave the world a bit better, and he did so in many ways. Graduates of the class of 2026, may you too find and embrace similar purpose, direction and ideally, selflessness in your own lives ahead. On behalf of the entire staff and faculty and alumni body of the school, I wish you a beautiful, successful future." - Brian Yager, head of school

"The faster the world moves, the more essential it becomes to know what you are moving toward and why. Technology can generate content, but it cannot produce wisdom. It can optimize the process, but it cannot tell you what really matters. That part is entirely yours. So, as you head into this next chapter, invest in what makes you irreducibly human." - Graduation keynote speaker Humsa Venkatesh '04

"When we were younger, before everything got competitive and busy, caring about each other came naturally. That is something worth protecting. Take care of the messy challenges of our world. Speak up when something feels wrong and build things that help the people who made you sparkle." - 2026 Senior Mission Awardee Elie Ahluwalia

The cast of "Something Rotten!" the upper school spring musical, performed this past Monday at the Rita Moreno Awards! Harker finished as a finalist in three categories among 40 competing high schools and 380 individual performers, with senior Simon Kirjner nominated for the Lead Actor award, junior Omar Khan nominated for Supporting Performer and the musical itself nominated for Overall Production. Great work everyone!