A few days ago I walked into the bookstore to buy “Flatland” for my unweighted Philosophy in Art and Science class. The novel is about a square named A Square, who lives in a two-dimensional world...
The Wafflebots, the combined Robotics class and club team, sent nine students to a scrimmage in which they used a robot designed by last year's club to throw balls into two separate goals.
At the Oct....
Upper school students will gather in the gym during 20-minute-long breaks on the first and third Wednesdays of each month as a new form of community building, Assistant to the Head of Upper School and...
Framed photographs of Harvard and Westlake students hang on the newly-constructed walls of Seaver’s top floor. The new hallway now features approximately 45 black-and-white photographs of the school’s...
Framed photographs of Harvard and Westlake students hang on the newly-constructed walls of Seaver’s top floor. The new hallway now features approximately 45 black-and-white photographs of the school’s...
Annelise Colvin ’15 and Head of School Jeanne Huybrechts discuss Colvin’s
display at the Eli and Edythe Broad CIRM Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research.
Angela Chon ’16, Caitlin Chung ’20, Britany Hong ’18, Jane Kim ’18 and Astor Wu ’20 perform a fan dance at the Korean American Parents Association Annual Family Barbecue Aug. 24.
Interdisciplinary studies department head and history teacher Larry Klein and middle school secretary Tim Smith won a song-identifying competition to increase publicity for the final performing arts concert...
Upper School Dean Pete Silberman participates in “At the MIC,” an event where a faculty member addresses the audience with personal insights. In the May installment, Silberman spoke about the importance...
After three years at the school as a dean, chair of the character education committee and teacher of a class he helped to create, Dean Pete Silberman will leave Harvard-Westlake and move to Tennessee.
"I...
Dean Jim Patterson will assume the new position of Director of External Learning next year. The job entails “leading and overseeing all the portions of the Harvard-Westlake program that are outside of...
Friday, March 21 was the second worst attendance day in school history. On the day before spring break, 20 percent of the student body was absent from school.
The worst attendance day was April 2005 on...
Ethan Gruman ’15 and David Woldenberg ’15 organized a free programming workshop in the student lounge March 22 to teach children ages 8 to 12 how to create simple computer programs. About 35 students...
More than 10 students attended an internship workshop hosted by the HW Works Internship and Career Network March 12, which aimed to teach students how to present themselves to potential employers.
The...
Sara Evall ’15, left, and Amelia Miller ’15, right, take a break between preparing for debates with teammate Danny DuBois. Evall and Miller missed four days of school to travel to Slovenia and represent...
The Harvard-Westlake Parents’ Association hopes to make more than $85,000 from the 2014 Parents’ Gala, "Come Together," Feb. 22 at the Skirball Guerin Pavilion, Parents Association annual event committee...
The Science Bowl A and B teams played in a scrimmage hosted by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power Saturday Jan. 11, at one of the department's main buildings in Los Angeles. The teams, a...
Bookstore associate Allie Costa performed in “Little Miss Scrooge,” a musical mashup of “A Christmas Carol” and “Great Expectations,” at the Rubicon Theatre in Ventura.
Costa played Tiny Tammy,...
Students in Advanced Acting and Directing and the Actor and the Stage I and II attended a daytime performance of “Pericles” at A Noise Within Theatre in Pasadena Nov. 6 on the first-ever day-time field...
The Character Education Committee chose 10 posters as winners in a competition held in Civitalks groups Oct. 9 that asked participants to draw representations of what has colored their school experiences,...
Performing arts teacher Shawn Costantino hired new assistant Matt Yeakley to teach his sixth period Jazz Rhythm Section class this year.
After performing arts teacher Mark Hilt created a second music...
The Middle School will perform "Midsummer/Jersey," a modern version of Shakespeare’s "A Midsummer Night’s Dream," as the fall theatrical production Nov. 15, 16 and 17.
"It’s basically a mashup of...
Xenia Viragh ’15 used funds provided by the Gunter-Gross Asia Initiative to get hotspot wi-fi on cell phones for students at Phaung Daw Oo, a school for students of all ages in Mandalay, Burma.
“It’s...
Her role as Varya in last year’s spring production “The Cherry Orchard” by Anton Chekhov landed Covi Brannan ’15 an internship this summer with the York Theatre Royal in England.
Brannan’s performance...
Middle school physical education teacher Steve Chen is leaving next year to "give the insurance business [his] full attention," he said.
He has worked at Farmers Insurance for the past five months as a...
Middle school physical education teacher Steve Chen is leaving next year to “give the insurance business [his] full attention,” Chen said. He has worked at Farmers Insurance for the past five months...
Nine-year computer science teacher and Dean of Faculty Jacob Hazard will join Cranbrook Schools in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, as Academic Dean for grades 11 and 12 in September.
He will also teach one...
Japan
Some countries, including Japan, turn somber themes into celebratory opportunities.
For example, "Obon is the honoring of the dead; there’s ancestor worship. We just go for food and friends," mathematics...
Three students attended the Junior State of America Southern California Congress in Torrance to participate in a model House of Representatives and model Senate. Zoe Dutton ’15, Samantha Garfield ’14...
Six students placed in the top three for their categories in the Southern California League individual Epee/Saber tournament on Jan. 13.
Jack Graham ’15 took gold for men’s high school saber, and...
Sammy Roth ’10 is the new editor-in-chief of the Columbia Daily Spectator. He formally started the position on Dec. 10.
"I have the job now, but the hard work really starts next semester," Roth said.
Roth...
Eight students and recent graduates performed in the choir at the Hollywood Bowl concert “Ray Charles: Genius + Soul = Jazz,” a tribute to the famed musician who specialized in jazz, pop, and country...
The Athletic Department named Scott Bello the new Middle School Sports Coordinator after seven years as an Administrative Assistant and Football Coach at the Middle School.
His dedication to the program...
