2024 Awards Recognize Student Achievements

6/5/2024

Students were recognized for their outstanding contributions to the Academy at the 2024 Awards Ceremony and Commencement Exercises.

This year’s awards were announced during two events: the Awards Ceremony on Friday, May 24, and Commencement on Saturday, May 25. Please visit KUA Live to view recordings of The Awards Ceremony and Commencement, and Flickr for images from each event.

Graduation Awards

Valedictorian

Hunter Nesbitt ‘24

Salutatorian
Michelle Chang ‘24

Henry Mann Silver 1867 Award
Luke Clarner ‘24
Teegan Duffy ‘24
Svia Russman-Araya ‘24

Class of 1895 Award
Hunter Nesbitt ‘24

Royal Burnham Townsend 1911 Award
Teegan Duffy ‘24

Charles Alden Tracy Award
Michelle Chang ‘24

Porter Award
Lulu Leppard ‘24

The Class of 1920 Award
Luke Clarner ‘24

Mikula Award
Ziad Hassan ‘24

Awards Ceremony

Dartmouth College Book Prize

Bleyton Hopps-Thompson ‘25

Harvard Book Prize

Xiangyue "Jason" Cheng ‘25

9th Grade Distinction

Thomas Doherty ‘27

Ellicott Smith ‘27

10th Grade Distinction

Caroline Daft ‘26

Emmett Smyth ‘26

11th Grade Distinction

Kai Bodell ‘25

Alex Hoyt ‘25

Jim Schubert Visual Art Award

Dora Chang ‘24

Dance Award

Hanna Noto ‘24

Theatre Award

Isabelle Brozen ‘24

Music Award

Yuxuan Li ‘24

Simon Harrold Memorial Award

Xiangyue "Jason" Cheng ‘25

Karen Custer Mathematics Department Award

Michelle Chang ‘24

Rensselaer Medal

Angus Spence ‘25

Senior Science Award

Cho Man Bian ‘24

E.E. Just Environmental Science Award

Eliza Connors ‘24

Advanced World Language Award

Brynn Garg ‘25

Stephen B. Bishop Award

Hunter Nesbitt ‘24

Lionel Mosher Award

Jack McMinn ‘24

Flora Clough Composition Prize

Josephine Annabelle Blue ‘24

Outstanding Athletes

Lulu Leppard ‘24

Cabot McLaren ‘24

Akerstrom Awards

Svia Russman-Araya ‘24

Henry Trimpi ‘24

Flora Clough Library Prize

Carys O'Connor ‘24

Fire Brigade Firefighters Award

Benjamin Lawton ‘24

Ray Freeman Jenney Good Citizen Award

Katie Pierson ‘24

Hong-Jin Kim International Student Award

Yuxuan Li ‘24

Georg Feichtinger Community Service Award

Hanna Noto ‘24
Teddy Lykouretzos ‘25

Student Senate Service Award
Lulu Leppard ‘24
Ziad Hassan ‘24

The Faculty Cup

Derek Gueldenzoph P’22 ‘26

Cum Laude Society

Michelle Chang ’24

Hanyoung “Michael” Jung ’24

Hunter Nesbitt ’24

Eliza Louise Connors ’24

Lulu Leppard ’24

Josephine Annabelle Blue ’24

Cho Man Bian ’24

Yuxuan Li ’24 ’24

Teegan Duffy ’24

Xintong “Ella” Wang ’24

Alex Shareiko ’24

Ava Mae Yates ’24

Angie Kim ’24

Isabel Brozen ’24

Summer Combe ’24

Katie Pierson ’24

Luke Clarner ’24

Eva Joslin ’24

Isobel Bent ’25

Brynn Garg ’25

Angus Spence ’25

Ada Yoder ’25

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