As the academic year comes to a close, underclass students and faculty came together for a night of recognition in the DuBois Theatre. On Tuesday, May 26, the Underclass Prize Assembly honored members of the ninth, 10th and 11th grades for their outstanding academic and cocurricular work throughout Blair’s 178th year.

“Tonight, we come together to celebrate work done in and outside the classroom in this community,” Assistant Head of School for Academics Nathan Molteni said as he welcomed everyone to the assembly. “Your successes, if not named here, are still important to this journey you’re on through Blair and toward the future you imagine.” 

Click “play” below to watch the assembly. 

Congratulations to all of the students who were awarded for their accomplishments on Tuesday!

The Phillips-James Rosen Trophy: Lola Bambe ’27 and Vin Anello’27

The John Kinch Leach Merit Award: Sadie Betz ’28 and Gavin Kwarula ’28

The David Avery-Jones Ninth-Grade Prize: Bray Brown ’29 and Abby Roecker ’29

The Joan and Fernando Marcial Prize: Daryna Pavelkiv ’27

The Stephen Curry Prize: Athena Thompson ’27 and Salah Tsarni ’27
 
The Edyth Jeffrey Shakespeare Essay Prize: Caroline Eizenstat ’29, Isabelle Green ’29, Amanda Lin ’29, Roy Moon ’29, Emily Osei ’29, Veronica Rowny ’29, Dylan Saporito ’29, Graham Staniford ’29, Daphne Todas ’29, Eloise Weekes ’29, Madyn Chomow ’28, Brad Kim ’28, Gavin Kwarula ’28, Jada Nials ’28, Jin Yip ’28, Taryn Garriques ’27

The Henry Cowan Prize: Victor Adebayo ’27 and Ria Chae ’27

English One Prize: Emma Ye ’29 and Vivian Zeng ’29

English Two Prize: Caroline Hackett ’28 and Harrison Aillet ’28

Art Prize - Two Dimensional Art: Sadie Betz ’28

Art Prize - Three Dimensional Art: Maddie Redshaw ’27

Art Prize - Photography: Johnny Xu ’27

Art Prize - The Kampmann Video Prize: Zayden Mirchandani ’27 and Daphne Todas ’29

Ninth-Grade History Prize: Amanda Lin ’29

Tenth-Grade History Prize: Erin Ko ’28 and Henry Sprague ’28

Eleventh-Grade History Prize: Thomas Horner ’27, Max Huo ’27 and Andrew Yu ’27

The Marguerite Deysson Habermann Memorial French Prize: Annie Fang ’27 and Johnny Fang ’27

Chinese Language Prize: Prima Viprakasit ’27 and Zayden Mirchandani ’27

Outstanding Achievement in the Study of a Foreign Language Prize: Michael Mokrov ’27

Newton Prize for Calculus: Brayden Yau ’27 and Erin Ko ’28

Hypatia Prize for Precalculus: Daryna Pavelkiv ’27 and Brad Kim ’28

Pythagoras Prize for Geometry: Grace Cui ’29

Al-Khwarizmi Prize for Algebra: Rachel Schwartz ’28

Vocal Music Prize: Luke Arbogast ’27 and Lucy Wei ’27

Instrumental Music Prize: Grace Dai ’27 and Michael Mokrov ’27

Underclass Theatre Prize: Penny Wardwell ’27

Ninth-Grade Biology Prize: Michelle Kogan ’29

Tenth-Grade Chemistry Prize: Sadie Betz ’28 and Caroline Olsen ’28

Eleventh-Grade Physics Prize: Prima Viprakasit ’27

During the Underclass Prize Assembly, Mr. Molteni announced seven recipients of the Portfolio of Distinction accolade, presented to those who exhibited outstanding work at the Junior Portfolio Symposium. The recipients are Megan Bacinski ’27, Sean Bernard ’27, Sophie Bouvel ’27, Ria Chae ’27, Grace Dai ’27, Prima Viprakasit ’27 and Brayden Yau ’27.

At School meeting earlier in May, the John H. Wyeth Yearbook Prize was presented to Victor Adebayo ’27, and the Alexander “ARob” Roberts Award for Spirit was presented to Adison Thatcher ’27. The award is given annually in honor of Alexander Roberts ’18 to a member of the rising senior class who embodies his characteristics. Like ARob, the students selected fully immerse themselves in all that Blair has to offer and are distinguished by their character. They are known to be compassionate, humble, innately curious, passionate and committed to Blair.