52 SHS Students Receive Academic Awards and 2 Receive National Merit Scholarships

Matthew Kutzin and Jamie Robelen Received the Friends of the Music and Arts Drama AwardAs anyone living here knows, Scarsdale kids are some of the hardest working kids around. Each year a select few SHS juniors and seniors are chosen by the school faculty to receive awards to recognize academic excellence, accomplishments in the arts and service to the community.

On Wednesday night, May 8th, 52 students, gathered with parents and friends in the auditorium where students were presented awards by the heads of each academic department, community members, and even Principal Bonamo himself. The complete list of award winners is as follows:

Junior Scholarship/Service Award: Lily Kronenberg

Junior Academic Excellence Award: Jack Silvers

Wellesley Book Award: Lucy Brenner

SAA Rothschild Award: Teckhua Chiang

Counseling Department Award: David George

Scarsdale Foundation Award: Ross Forman

Dartmouth Award: Jenny Liu

Principal’s Award: Amanda Glik

Billy Safian Humanitarian Award: Adina Mistry

Halliday Clark Sr. Memorial Award: Benjamin Klein

Casey Ferrone Memorial Award: Taylor Siegel

Rotary Club Award: Adeye Jean-Baptiste, Anya Raj

Technical Services Award: Ian Lerner

Michael V. McGill Book Award: Alexandra Wilson

Yale University Award: Spencer Sheppe

New York State Comptroller’s Achievement Award: Carly Kessler, Henry Kronenberg

The Triple “C” Award: Francesca Greenwald, Aliza Mehlman

David Smith Memorial Award: Luzselena Aguilar

ART AWARDS

Excellence in Visual Art 2D: Lily Foley

Excellence in Visual Art 3D: Manya Kula

Media Award: Vivian Perfetti

Friends Permanent Collection Award: Sara Frankenthaler

Elisa Draper Art History Award: Helen Marino

ENGLISH AWARDS

Brown University Award: Harry Parks

Harvard University Award: Jack Silvers

Princeton University English Excellence Award: Noam Cherki

Audrey McGinn Creative Writing Award: Elizabeth Seider

SPECIAL EDUCATION AWARD

Steve Corbin Academic Success Award: Olivia Higgins

WORLD LANGUAGE AWARDS
Latin Award: Jonathan Fan

Spanish Award: Noah Yusen

Spanish Literature Award: Rena Li

French Award: Emma Townsend

Mandarin Award: Kylie McRobie

Departmental Award: Anika Agarwal

MATHEMATICS AWARDS

Rensselaer Mathematics & Science Award: Alison Chan

Math Faculty Award: Teckhua Chiang

SCIENCE AWARDS

Bausch and Lomb Award: Wolf Cukier

Science Achievement Award: Anika Agarwal

Science Department Award: Kathryn Koo

New York Science Supervisors Association Awards

Biology: Andrew Levy

Chemistry: Renee Dibbini

Physics: Noah Yusen

SOCIAL STUDIES AWARDS

Social Studies Excellence Award: Maya Bharara, Sean Michael

Social Studies Faculty Award: Lily Kronenberg, Andrew Morin

Social Studies Achievement Award: Vivianna Wang

PERFORMING ARTS AWARDS

Band Award: Nico Cavalluzzi

Chorus Award: Elias Hairatidis, Megumi Ozawa

Orchestra Award: Abigail Nishiwaki

Friends of Music and Art Drama Award: Matthew Kutzin, Jamie Robelen

Sidney R. Case Memorial Scholarship: Lindsey Donat

National Merit Scholarship Awards

The National Merit Scholarship Corporation awarded National Merit Scholarship Awards to two Scarsdale Students, Kelly Rutherford and Austin Tang. They are two of about 7,600 recipients of these awards, chosen from 15,000 finalists. The recipients are chosen by college admissions counselors and high school counselors, based on academics, test scores, leadership in school and community, an essay, and a recommendation from the school counselor. Both Rutherford and Tang were recipients of National Merit $2500 Scholarships.