Hawaii Preparatory Academy honored the following Upper School students on May 15 for special achievement in academic studies, the arts, athletics and community service. Those awarded and their awards are:
Hawaii Preparatory Academy honored the following Upper School students on May 15 for special achievement in academic studies, the arts, athletics and community service. Those awarded and their awards are:
Alumni Association Award: Jonah Hurney and Alexandra Thomas (juniors); Christopher Chock and Holly Hoffbauer (sophomores).
John L. Pricher Award: Malcolm Davis and Julia Perry.
Holi Bergin Memorial Scholarship Award: Michael Hanano and Kia‘i Lindsey.
Cy Keala Spencer “Spirit of Aloha” Award: Keanu Young.
Ulrike Katharina “Bieni” Kohler-Johnson Scholarship Award: Alyssa Klett, Ella Martin and Kristina Novotna.
U.S. Army Reserve Scholar Athlete Award: Braden Kojima and Rowan Kotner.
Ka Makani Career Athlete Awards: Noah Wise and Janelle Laros.
Hawaii High School Athletic Association Champion Awards: Joar Berglund (boys diving) and the HPA girls soccer team (Division II) and boys soccer team (Division II).
New members of Cum Laude, the school’s honor society: Malcolm Davis, George Donev, Sora Frysinger, Oliver Grayson, Daniel Groves, Braden Kojima, Rowan Kotner, Anna Morita, Nathaniel (Bip) Padrnos, Ghar Pautz, James (Austin) Schneider, Yerden Suraganov, Alexandra Thomas, Ziyan Wang, Mimi Werdegar, Thomas Yoo, Sanghyup Yoon.
ENGLISH AWARDS
Mount Holyoke College Award: Alex Thomas.
Paul Knauff Creative Writing Award: Alicia Chow.
Excellence in English Award: Shanae Butler.
FINE ARTS AWARDS
Ka Makani Technical Theatre Award: Jeeyoon (June) Kim.
Career Performance Award: Colby Camero.
Phyllis A. Richards Theatre Arts Scholarship: Katherine Gargiulo.
Andy Ackerman Art Award: Elza Moore.
Academy Art Award: Laney Van Tassel.
Art History Award: Clara Saalfeld.
George Watson Audio-Visual Award: Daniel Groves.
Yearbook Award: Ava Jean Johnston and Riley McMackin.
Photojournalism Award: Elyse Fujioka.
MATHEMATICS AWARDS
Exponential Growth Award: Adam Pigott.
Outlier Award: Sidney Vermeulen.
Riemann Sum Award: Seungyou (Bruce) Kim.
Positive Divergence Award: Jeeyoon (June) Kim.
MODERN LANGUAGE AWARDS
Chinese Language Award: Kayla Hollister.
Japanese Language Award: Sidney Vermeulen.
Eva Perez Hawaiian Language Award: Noah Wise.
Spanish Language Award: Thomas Yoo.
Institute of English Studies Outstanding Progress Award: Elizaveta Kozlova.
Institute of English Studies Achievement Award: Maria Yamada.
SCIENCE AWARDS
Joseph Martire Biology Award: Rachel Bonn and Rachel O’Toole.
Thomas Webb Mar Physics Award: Sarah Emmons.
Alan Fujimoto Chemistry Award: Yann-Hsiang (Victor) Chen.
Environmental Science Scholar Award: Amelia Snyder.
Engineering Award: Ilan Naibryf.
The Science Award: Viet Tung Dao.
SOCIAL STUDIES AWARDS
Jay Wilder Award for Excellence in History: Adam Pigott.
Cathy Schmidel Award for Excellence in Social Studies: Maile Kuyper.
Ben Dillingham U.S. History Award: Matthew Vazquez.