The poetry slam team won the quarterfinals and earned second place in the semifinal bracket of the Get Lit Classic Slam May 22 and 23. "I’m proud that our team almost made the finals in our first year...

President Rick Commons and Head of School Jeanne Huybrechts have invited parents of African-American students to a dinner June 4 at the home of Maria and Jeff Harleston (Miles ’15, Zachary ’17) to...

Commencement will be livestreamed this year for the first time. The livestream will be available to watch on the Harvard-Westlake website in real time. People can also watch the video afterward.  

Joss Saltzman ’16 won first place in division B of the 2014 Preliminary Competition of the Chinese Bridge Proficiency Competition for the southwest United States in San Diego May 16, and received a prize...

Head of Middle School Jon Wimbish announced "Pay it Forward" by Catherine Ryan Hyde as the middle school’s All Community Read May 19. The story follows Trevor Mckinney, who is assigned a project to...

Jonathan Berman '17 and Arjun Mahajan '16 presented their project “Innovation in Autism” at the White House Science Fair today in Washington, D.C. They designed a motion-detecting bracelet that senses...

Grizzly bears can grow up to nearly 10 feet tall and five feet wide, and can weigh up to 1,500 pounds. Darby Caso’s ’14 bear is nearly as big, but weighs almost nothing and is made out of plastic....

This year’s STEMFest included Harvard- Westlake’s own “Change the World Idea Competition,” an opportunity for students to receive feedback on environmentally beneficial tech business ideas from...

Five seniors defeated five science teachers in a 12 minute-long Science Bowl match during STEMfest Wednesday. Science Bowl team members Kevin Zhang '14, Anser Abbas '14, Donhem Brown '14, Zachary Birnholz...

The Harvard-Westlake Parents’ Association will host its annual senior luncheons May 10 to celebrate students’ completion of their high school careers. Senior boys and their fathers will attend an event...

The Chronicle was awarded second in General Excellence by the California Newspaper Publishers Association Saturday for California high school newspapers published in 2013. Chronicle staffers also won three...

Student publication expert Ron Johnson spoke to Chronicle staff April 14 about news coverage and design technique in Weiler Hall. "He was really great," Jacob Goodman '15 said. "He brought an objective...