Medford High School Students Recognized with Academic Awards

The following was provided by Medford High School:

The academic achievement and effort of the following 130 students were recognized at Medford High School’s Academic Awards Ceremony on Wednesday, May 2:

Academic Excellence Awards

The following students, who earned the highest cumulative average at their respective grade levels, received Academic Excellence Awards in the following departments:

ENGLISH: Adrienne Porrazzo, Mariam Taha, Kathleen Callahan, and Jamie deRosas; HISTORY AND SOCIAL SCIENCE: Avneet Bajwa, Erica Budina, Christian Healion, and George Leetch; MATH: Lina Hart, Cynthia Miguel, Erica Budina, Elizabeth Liu, Lucas Mazzotti, and Roger Zurawicki; SCIENCE: Adrienne Porrazzo, Victor Oliveira, Elizabeth Liu, and Roger Zurawicki; FOREIGN LANGUAGE: Sharma Jean-Jacques, Jadwiga Tamburini, Wiktoria Tamburini, Victor Oliveira, Elizabeth Liu, and Brandon Breen.

Scholastic Achievement Awards

The following students, who earned the highest cumulative Grade Point Averages, received Headmaster’s Scholastic Achievement Awards:

GRADE 9:  Talia Andreottola, Avneet Bajwa, Matthew Beckshaw, Daria Eshelman, Megan Fung, Nicholas Giurleo, Kha Huynh, Kayla Joyner, Leanna Kantt, Clare Kelley, Raveena Longia, Cynthia Miguel, Adrienne Porrazzo, Brenda Quach, Callaghan Todhunter, and Alyssa Valentyn.

GRADE 10: Lian Blake, Erica Budina, Abigail Candee, Kin Chau, Jordan Harris, Regine Jacques, Elijah Kissman, Anthony Nguyen, Kathy Nguyen, Victor Oliveira, Audrey Ring, Shahrayz Shah, Vincent Tran, Leila Walker, and Jean-Charles Zurawicki.

GRADE 11:  Nicole Avella, John Bailey, Kylie Baker, Katherine Corneilson, Peter-Joseph DeGiovanni, Alison deRosas, Jennifer Frederick, Nabonita Hoq, Winny Kwong Sito, Elizabeth Liu, Lucas Mazzotti, Kalsang Nangpa, Kaleigh Smith, Susan Smith, and Isabelle Thibault.

GRADE 12:  Daniel Bozovic, Brandon Breen, Seth Brownmiller, Ariana Colozzo, Sean Connor, Megan Lauretti, George Leetch, John McElearney, Jr., Anthony Nguyen, Janet Nguyen, Jeannie Nguyen, Khang Nguyen, Arjun Sharma, Jason Trinh, and Roger Zurawicki.

Outstanding Effort Awards

Teachers in the following departments presented Outstanding Effort Awards to these students:

ENGLISH:  Aicha Abdou, Salem Abdulkerim, Nicholas Adams, Hana Austin, Jessica Brady, Erica Budina, Shedena Casseus, Martha Estriplet, Reginald Fleurival, Jacqueline Harrington, Sean Lynch, Nicole Mortell, Peter Nardella, Karishma Patel, Deyvid Rocha, Taylor Salamone, Sarah Santos, and Susan Smith.

FOREIGN LANGUAGE:  Marc Aime, AnaCarolina Araujo, Kylie Baker, Jessica Brady, Santina DelPrete, Cassandra Keddy, Jacob Liberty, Giana Marks, and Maria Prodoscimo.

MATHEMATICS:  Patrick Breen, Shedena Casseus, Rebecca Chin, Santanna Clarke Palou, Hemilly Correa, Mary Kate Cullinane, Jose Thessie Elysee, Martha Estriplet, Sarah Fioroti, Sherby Germain, Giulia LaRocca, Giana Marks, Muhsin Mohamed, Lynzie Pierce, Samuel Prince, Nesa Riley, Owen Seamster, Anna Steele, and Nicole Taliaferro.

SCIENCE:  AnaCarolina Araujo, Jessica Brady, Seth Brownmiller, Brendan Callahan, Kin Chau, Christina Coleman, Arianna DiSisto, Martha Estriplet, William Kostick, Naika Legros, Giana Marks, Linh Nguyen, Karishma Patel, Karishma Patel, Lynzie Pierce, Samuel Prince, and Nakiyah Shelby-Barnes.

HISTORY AND SOCIAL SCIENCE:  Duphtalife Rebecca Alexis, Djivenchy Auguste, Josie Baily-Zona, Jessica Brady, Shedena Casseus, Susanna Clarke Palou, Raissa do Amaral Bezerra, Gasendy Dominique, Kelly Ferjuste, Arlo Grossman, Brooke Hanley, Kayli Lanzilli, Shamus Maunsell, Jr., Brian Moriarty, Sarah Santos, Julia Shoop, Kaleigh Smith, and Kumba Wahkor.

Special Awards

Bausch & Lomb Award: Elizabeth Liu; Chatham University Book Award: Kylie Baker; Dartmouth College Book Award: Nicole Avella; Harvard Book Award: Elizabeth Liu; Regis College Book Award: John Bailey; Rensselaer Medal: Alexander Leccese; Saint Michael's College Book Awards:, Winny Kwong Sito, and Lucas Mazzotti; Wellesley College Book Award: Katherine Corneilson; and Yale University Book Award: Jennifer Frederick.

In addition, nine students earned Gold Medal Awards on the Spanish Language Exam: Jennifer Frederick, Lina Hart, Winny Kwong Sito, Elizabeth Liu, Lucas Mazzotti, Victor Oliveira, Bryan Peguero, Maria Prodoscimo, and Leila Walker; and three students received awards from the American Association of Teachers of Italian: Brandon Breen, Ariana Colozzo, and Bryan Silva.