Students honored with merit, leadership awards

The Upper School honored students with merit and leadership awards during a special presentation in Convocation on Monday, May 6. Senior honor cords were also presented. 

BEAVER ESSAY AWARD WINNERS
Ozioma Okeke (first place); Ketsia Mambi (second place); Adora Adeyemi (third place). Honorable Mentions: Anna McMullen, Tori Anderson, and Bilan Aden.

STUDENT LEADERSHIP 

Prefects — Will Adair, Wade Blackburn, Ben Carter, Katie Cox, Daniel Dobromirov, Shania Gonzalez, Mia Gray, Yannik Gruner, Graham Jump, Alex Kehoe, Galen Krugly, Kacper Kuzimski, Henrik Landis, Ketsia Mambi, Jack Mauldin, Jazmyn Pickstock, Trevonya Pinder, Samuel Poole, Hunter Rolader, Vishal Sharma, Cindy Shen, Andre Silva, Liam Spoon, Miko Stankiewicz, Olivia Tavolacci, Charlie Underwood, Gracen Wiggins, Shaiq Walizada, and Bella Wheeler

Student Government — Yannik Gruner, Bella Wheeler, Gracen Wiggins, Matt Campbell, Claudia Lopez, Alex Cordero

Gap Guide of the Year — Landon Green

PEACE Team Seniors — Net Khunwipusit, Cathy Gu, Lorenzo Brandon, Daphne Lucana, Alyssa Paynter, Elizabeth Taylor

ESP — Victoria Cochran, Jason Zhang, Simon Park

Honor Council — Anja Racic- Chair, Cindy Shen- Vice Chair;  Junior Representatives who will also serve next year: Ilana Nzizera, Leo Zhang; Sophomore representatives: Isabela Caro, Nabi Ndiayae; Freshman Representatives: Jacqueline Love, George Underwood

Several upperclassmen were also recognized with merit awards. These certificates of Merit are awarded by colleges and universities whose intent is to identify and recognize superior scholarship, leadership, and service during the student’s first three years of high school. Students are chosen based on their GPA and standardized testing scores. The following rising seniors who received recognition were:

Furman University: Sarah Futral, Nathan Williams, Xinyu Zhang

The University of Georgia Merit Award: Adora Adeyemi, Tori Anderson, Nathan Williams, Xinyu Zhang

Presbyterian College: Niamh Dempsey, Nicole Vanderwoude, Ilana Nzizera, Mark Arbitter

Jamie Gray

Wofford College  Scholar Program: Sarah Futral

The following seniors received their honor cords for membership in various honor societies:

Thespian Honor Society —Dorothy Akpovwa, Leah Craig, Daniel Dobromirov, Rylee Gardner, Mia Gray, Cathy Gu, Gabrielle Jiang, Saylor Krockum, Kacper Kuzimski, Monse Marquina, Ozioma Okeke, Jazmyn Pickstock, Samuel Poole, Elizabeth Prim, Anja Racic, Jay Reece, William Rolader, Xinyi Shen, Liam Spoon, Mikolaj Stankiewicz, Olivia Tavolacci, Elizabeth Taylor

National Honor Society for Dance —  Katie Cox, Anja Racic, Bess Prim, Shania Gonzalez, Mia Gray, Ozi Okeke, Cindy Shen, Rylee Gardner, Hebe Delgado.

National Art Honor Society — Natalie Jump, Olivia Tavolacci, Hayden Turner, Leah Grace Craig, Gabrielle Jiang, Camille Manoogian

Tri-M Music Honor Society —Daniel Dobromirov, Muya Kahiga, Alexander Kehoe, Kacper Kuzimski, Jazmyn Pickstock, Elizabeth Prim, Anja Racic, James Reece, Xinyi Shen, Phoenix Tate, Abigail Waters

National French Honor Society —Adora Adeyemi, Dorothy Akpovwa, Tori Anderson, Ian Braga, Victoria Cochran, Emily Hyde, Ketsia Mambi