Annual Prize Day Ceremony Honors Student Achievement

 

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On Thursday, June 4, Hopkins School held its annual Prize Day Ceremony. The special assembly marked the last time the community gathered in full for the 2025-2026 school year.

Joined by parents and friends under the big tent on Pratt Field, students representing all grades were awarded prizes for academic and personal achievements. Prizes were handed out by the heads of each academic department as well as advisers from every grade.

The event closed with the unveiling of the 2026 Class Banner, which pays tribute to Hopkins and this year’s senior class with an homage to Dr. Seuss’ “Oh, the Places You’ll Go!” This year’s banner was designed and created by students in Derek Byron’s Studio Art III course: seniors Ella Rinaldi, Julia van Der Aue, and Rain Zeng, and junior Jade-Logan B., who were assisted in painting by seniors in Austin Casebolt’s painting class: Livia Liu, Moupriya Mukherjee, Ava Kwok, and Fereol Faure. The colorful banner will hang in Heath Commons over the next school year and will be shown in the reunion tent when the class returns for Alumni Weekend every five years. 

See the list of prize winners below the video, some of which were awarded on June 4, and others on May 23 at the Yearbook and Awards Assembly. Watch a video of the full presentation below.

Mary Brewster Thompson Scholar – Kyle Abrahamsen

Norman L. Stone Award – Ripley Chance

Donald Ferguson Award – Rania Das

Donald Ferguson Award – Liliana Dumas

F. Allen Sherk Award – Molly Powers

Gerald F. Stevens Memorial Scholarship – Chloe Wang

John A. Wilkinson Award – Aurora Chevalier

Michael J. Theobald Prize – Gabriel Ciminiello

Mary Brewster Thompson Scholar – Nikhet Vallabhajosyula

George Blakeman Lovell Award – Jonnie Omega

Harvard Book Prize – Zhuoxi Deng

Yale Book Award – Calder Resch

Andrew Rossetti Prize – Rebecca Spiewak

Ellen Patterson Brown ’62 DPH Award – Ava Morello

Smith Book Award – Leilani Edusa

St. Lawrence University Book Award – Tessa van den Pol

University of Chicago Book Award – Lukas Roberts

University of Virginia Jefferson Book Award – Daven Kaphar

William and Mary Leadership Award – Jacob Richards

Mary Brewster Thompson Scholar – Emily Ma

Stanley Daggett Award – John O’Connell 

Mary Brewster Thompson Scholar – Elaine Zhou

Stanley Daggett Award – August Farouki

Lydia von Wettberg Award – Ocie Peed

Simeon E. Baldwin Leadership Award – Advitia Maheshwari

Kristin Ridinger Taurchini Award – Natalie Tolchin

Lydia von Wettberg Award – Oscar Drais

Simeon E. Baldwin Leadership Award – Kristal Tang

Paul W. Schueler Prize for the Visual Arts – Brock Bowen, Grade 11

Drama Award – Cora Turk-Thomas, Grade 12

Charles Ives Music Prize – Nia McKeithen, Grade 12

JoAnn B. Wich Choral Music Award – Quinby Berry, Grade 12

Louis Armstrong Jazz Award – Liam Teel, Grade 12

Junior School Latin Prize – Anoush Gandhi-Zadeh, Grade 8

Clare McNamee Latin Prize –  Ruby Meyers, Grade 12

Major James Dudley Dewell Letter Writing Prize – 

Catherine Pennington, Grade 8

John B. Smith Prize for Excellence in English in Grade 8 – Sarah Li

Baldwin Prize Essay, Middle School – Rohin Turaga, Grade 9

Baldwin Prize Essay, Senior School – Angela Zeng, Grade 12

Brown University Book Award – John Beauclair, Grade 11

Elizabeth Tate Prize for Excellence in English in Grade 11 – Thomas Pittard

Susan E. Feinberg Prize for Excellence in Critical Thinking Through the Written Word – 

Mary-Winter Szarabajka, Grade 11

Karen Lee Pritzker Prize for Creative Writing – Henry Weinstein, Grade 12

Elsie Church Award for English and Dramatics – Miriam Levin, Grade 12

Elizabeth Lewis Day Prize for Excellence in Imaginative Writing – Angela Zeng, Grade 12

Helen Hope Barton Prize for Excellence in English in Grade 12 – Maeve Klatell 

George Gillespie Prize for Excellence in Literary Scholarship – Aerin O’Brien, Grade 12 

Kenneth Hopkins Rood History Prize – Alexis Andersson, Grade 8

Julia B. Thomas History Prize – Amber Sun, Grade 10

DeLaney Kiphuth Prize in History – Mateus Witczak, Grade 12

Gerald F. Stevens Award – Chloe Wang, Grade 12 

Rosemary Benedict Junior School Math Prize – Catherine Pennington, Grade 8

Ib Jorgensen Middle School Math Prize – Jonathan Zhou, Grade 10

Dr. Clayton R. Hall Senior School Mathematics Prize – Caryn Kim, Grade 12

John M. Heath Mathematics Prize – Ivy Lewis, Grade 12

Spanish Literature Prize – Avani DiLuna, Grade 12

Yan Phou Lee Chinese Prize – Andrew Keisman, Grade 11

Edward R. DeNoyon French Prize – Morgan Brushett, Grade 12

Denise M. Katz French Prize – Max Gagliardi, Grade 12

Marie Doval Spanish Prize – Samuel Ridky, Grade 12

Italian Letters Prize – Marcus Rosario, Grade 12

Aracy Belcher Biology Prize – Elisa DiMiceli, Grade 9

Harold Shelton Kirby Science Prize – Luannie Wang, Grade 10

Rensselaer Medal – Heli Wen, Grade 11

Josiah Willard Gibbs Prize – Michael Illuzzi, Grade 12

Walter Camp Award (Junior School) – Walter Lundberg, Grade 8

DPH Sportsmanship Award (Junior School) – Riley Belcher, Grade 8

DPH Sportsmanship Award (Junior School) – Riya Vikram, Grade 8

Dorrance Award – Brennen Catino, Grade 12

Hopkins Award – Nicole Tooker, Grade 12 

Robert Wyant Memorial Award – Nathan Levitt, Grade 12

Jerri Trulock DPH Sportsmanship Award – Aurora Chevalier, Grade 12

William DeGennaro Outstanding Male Athlete Award – Thomas O’Connell, Grade 12

William DeGennaro Outstanding Male Athlete Award – Jake Fejos, Grade 12

Outstanding Female Athlete Award – A’nai Alvarez, Grade 12

John A. Doughan Award – Andrew Keisman, Grade 12

Jordan William Sebastian Award – Rocco DeMaio III, Grade 12

Jordan William Sebastian Award – Mikoto Araki-Siegenfeld, Grade 12