Dozens of students recognized at the Upper School Underclassmen Awards ceremony

Head of School Rachel Rodriguez and COO and Interim Head of the Upper School David Clark '86 provided a welcome at the start of the May 21 ceremony, a partner to the Senior Awards Ceremony that took place in April. Rodriguez congratulated students for embodying the school's core values of Support & Community, Diversity & Inclusion, Honor & Excellence, Joy & Wellbeing and Service & Outreach in 2023-24.

"You put our core values at the base of all you do," she said from the Lewis Family Auditorium stage. "This has been an amazing year with great challenges. As a community, that is where we grow."

The class deans, Karen Key (11th), Albert Adatto (10th) and Karen Thompson (9th) presented the first annual Core Value Awards for their respective classes: Joy & Wellbeing: Alexander Sargi '25, Lucas Jaffee '26, Ella Arnold '27.  Service & Outreach: Adaya Yang '25, Christopher Tsialas '26, Ava Crowley '27. Support & Community: Carlos del Cañal Fernandez '25, Lola Pegg '26, Mateo Delgado '27. Diversity & Inclusion: Sofia Rakhimi '25, Leyla Amjad '26, Sukhari Afflick '27. Honor & Excellence: Kayra Serpenguzel '25, Max Grunwald '26, Simone Carrasco '27.

Department heads/coordinators presented awards in various academic disciplines, and more than a dozen juniors received 11th-grade book awards.

John Tsialas and Flavia Tomasello, the parents of Antonio Tsialas '19, presented the Antonio Tsialas '19 Leadership Award to Kaige Brown '25, and Upper School Dean of Student Activities Laura Miller presented Mia Bouyoucef '25 with the Princeton Service Award.

See the full list of award winners below: