On Friday evening, June 6, an award ceremony was held for seniors, presided over by Associate Head of School Chad Bridges. The following prizes were awarded:

The Edgar B. Roesch Award for Excellence in English to Nina Rose Feder

The Terry Burns Award for Citizenship and Commitment to the Pursuit of English to Shreya Mookherjee

The Dr. E. F. Hann Memorial Award for Excellence in World Languages to Mari Sita Grandbouche (for Spanish)

The Pennington School Award for Citizenship and Commitment to the Pursuit of World Languages to Lucas Samuel Medina (for Spanish)
and Bacary Kebe Tandjigora (for French and Chinese, ELL)

The Howard Cressman Memorial Award for Excellence in Mathematics to Siyi Yang

The Pennington School Award for Citizenship and Commitment to the Pursuit of Mathematics to Benjamin Samuel Pearlberg

The George Parnos Award for Excellence in Science to Moyang Zou

The Pennington School Award for Citizenship and Commitment to the Pursuit of Science to Siyi Yang

The Dr. Ralph Appleton Memorial Award for Excellence in History and Social Studies to Caleb Peter Collins

The Pennington School Award for Citizenship and Commitment to the Pursuit of History to Sophia Catherine May

The Pennington School Award for Excellence in Computer Science to Jinxuan Qi

The Pennington School Award for Excellence in Religion to Adrianna Maria D’Agati

The William Alford Award for Distinctive Service in Music to Lucas Samuel Medina

The Kersey Award for the Student Showing Most Promise in Art to Shreya Mookherjee (visual artist) and
Evan Martin Glassner (lens-based)

The G. Arthur Campbell Award for Distinctive Service in Drama to Mari Sita Grandbouche

The Pennington School Award for Excellence in Technical Theatre to Anna Mira Sisserson Basile

The William Mastrosimone ‘66 Award for Excellence in Writing and Directing an Original Play to Madeleine G. Carr, Mari Sita Grandbouche, Mykaela Kennedy Sanders, and Siwen Zhao

The Pennington School Award for Distinguished Achievement in Applied Science to Xiaona Zhu

The Pennington School Award for Distinguished Achievement in Global Studies to Chelpang Khadijah Sulemana

National Merit Finalist Recognition to Shreya Mookherjee, Anirudh Suren, and Siyi Yang

National Merit Mary E. Beyerle Scholarship to Shreya Mookherjee

The Charles G. Bennett '59 Memorial Award for School Spirit to John Louis Fermo and Michela Giada McCagg

The Pennington School Award for International Citizenship to Zachary Max Parpel

The Pennington School Award to the Senior Outstanding in Volunteer Service to Nina Rose Feder

The Pennington School Award to the Senior who exemplifies the Development of Individual Excellence to Adrianna Maria D’Agati

The Pennington School Award for Outstanding Citizenship to Gabrielle Hall and Matthew Kern Passalacqua

The Brigid Kilfoyle ’91 Memorial Award to the Senior Female Making the Greatest Contribution to Pennington School Athletics to Isabelle Marie Augustine and Megan Elizabeth Balerna

The William E. Long Award to the Senior Male Making the Greatest Contribution to Pennington School Athletics to Bacary Kebe Tandjigora

The Monique Visser ’88 Memorial Award to Chisom Bianka Okeoma

The Community Life Award to Lia Brunetti-Carroll, Zachary Max Parpel, and María García Rodríguez                             

Gateway Prizes, which are given to the students who best exemplify Pennington’s core values of honor, virtue, and humility, were awarded to six seniors: Olivia Marie Cano, Destine F.E. Evans, James Leighton Friedman, Shermel Danelia Morgan, José Maria Ponce de León, and Siwen Zhao.

The Head of School Prize for the Best All-Around Student to Xiaona Zhu

Cume Laude Society students were acknowledged in two groups: Fall 2024 initial inductees: Olivia Marie Cano, Caleb Peter Collins, Nina Rose Feder, Olivia A. Kaczynska, Sophia Catherine May, Shreya Mookherjee, Benjamin Samuel Pearlberg, Jinxuan Qi, Siyi Yang, Xiaona Zhu, Dingtong Zou, and Moyang Zou; and Spring 2025 inductees: Lia Brunetti-Caroll, Adrianna Maria D'Agati, John Louis Fermo, Arden Tajal Galvelis, Axel Gonzalez Sandin, Mari Sita Grandbouche, Praslin Chaelee Hayes, Lucas Samuel Medina, Dhruv Ramaswamy, Vanessa Samayoa-Ramos, Matthew Luke Sanderson, Anirudh Suren, and Siwen Zhao.

Applied Science Certificate Students were recognized at the award ceremony: Graydon Calloway Adams, Isabelle Marie Augustine, Sarah Birkenstock, Ava Lee Burns, Alexander Thomas Burton, Olivia Marie Cano, Caleb Peter Collins, Adrianna Maria D'Agati, Arden Tajal Galvelis, Maria García Rodríguez, Benjamin David Gibson, Praslin Chaelee Hayes, Olivia A. Kaczynska, Deethya Karthikvatsan, Jeongmin Lim, Dustin Hanbo Liu, Alexander R. Marinzoli, Sophia Catherine May, Lucas Samuel Medina, Shreya Mookherjee, Shermel Danelia Morgan, Benjamin Samuel Pearlberg, Nathan Jerry Rabe, Dhruv Ramaswamy, Vanessa Samayoa-Ramos, Mykaela Kennedy Sanders, Matthew Luke Sanderson, Brian Asher Schwartzman, Chelpang Khadijah Sulemana, Anirudh Suren, Bang Tran, Myla Nicole Tudor, Juliet Walton, Siyi Yang, Xiaona Zhu, Dingtong Zou, and Moyang Zou.

Global Studies Certificate Students were also acknowledged: Joshua Anchia, Simonne Amina Blunt, Brody Ernest Bock, Darius R. Brown Jr., Lia Brunetti-Carroll, Caelin R. CheeWah, Zahra Darwish, Riley Edge, Nina Rose Feder, John Louis Fermo, Mari Sita Grandbouche, Gabrielle Hall, Sasha Hanewald, Tess Hanewald, Layten Samuel Hoffman, Jiarong Jiang, Declan George Karp, Reese Ryan Kimmel, Julia Karolina Klukowski, Xinran Li, Michela Giada McCagg, Nathaniel Darwin Mendez, Chisom Bianka Okeoma, José Maria Ponce de León, Aidan J. Prestigiacomo, Oleksandra Rogankova, Ryaan Kekul Shah, Thomas William Sharkey, Lydia Sperry-Fernandez, Chelpang Khadijah Sulemana, and Devan Rose Tirendi.