HPA honors top students

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Hawaii Preparatory Academy honored Upper School students May 11 for special achievement in academic studies, the arts, athletics, and community service.

Hawaii Preparatory Academy honored Upper School students May 11 for special achievement in academic studies, the arts, athletics, and community service.

The following students received awards:

Alumni Association Award: Nathan Ladwig and Kaili Yuen

John L. Pricher Award: Hanako Haitsuka and Will White

Holi Bergin Memorial Scholarship Award: Zen Simone

Cy Keala Spencer “Spirit of Aloha” Award: Lokelani Ching

Ulrike Katharina “Bieni” Kohler-Johnson Scholarship Award: Elizabeth Jim and Jordan Zarate

U.S. Army Reserve Scholar Athlete Award: Hideyoshi Akai and Ella Kotner

Athletic Booster Club Career Athlete Awards: Keisuke Anzai and Gabrielle Ewing

Hawaii High School Athletic Association Champion Awards: Boys cross country team (Division II) and girls soccer team (Division II).

Cum Laude (honor society): Erina Baudat, Abraham Binder, Brittani Boora, Kathryn Byrnes, Megan Canniff, Savannah Cochran, Harmony Graziano, Hanako Haitsuka, Nicole Johnston, Alexander Jones, Adam Kennon, Tristan Kilkenny, Kirara Kiki Kozuma, Weixing Nie, Lana Poljak, Zen Simone, Lauren Sullivan, Jordan Virtue and Will White.

English

Mount Holyoke College Award: Jordan Virtue

Paul Knauff Creative Writing Award: Ariana Datta

Excellence in English Award: Harmony Graziano.

Fine arts

Ka Makani Theatre Award: Colby Camero

Ka Makani Musical Theatre Award: Miller White

Career Performance Award: Miina Shimizu

Phyllis A. Richards Theatre Arts Scholarship: Jackson Streiter

Vocal Music Award: Tanner Riley

Instrumental Music Award: Caylin Kojima

Andy Ackerman Art Award: Michael Ho

Academy Art Award: Won Jeong Claire Chey

Art History Award: Will White

George Watson Audio-Visual Award: Tanner Sakurai

Photojournalism Award: Jessica Ainslie.

Mathematics

Algebra I Award: Kento Komatsu

Geometry Award: Sanghyup Johnny Yoon

Algebra II/Trigonometry Award: Sidney Vermeulen

Calculus Honors Award: Seungyou Bruce Kim

AP Calculus Award: Kieu-Giang Nguyen

AP Statistics Award: Will White.

Modern language

Chinese Language Award: Alice Patig

Japanese Language Award: Daniel Matsuda

Hawaiian Language Award: Leilani Bostock

Spanish Language Award: Jackson Solomon

Institute of English Studies Outstanding Progress Award: Yuxin (Rain) Du

Institute of English Studies Achievement Award: Yerden Suraganov.

Science

Joseph Martire Biology Award: Ella Kotner

Thomas Webb Mar Physics Award: Davy Ragland

Alan Fujimoto Chemistry Award: Seungyou Bruce Kim

Environmental Science Scholar Award: Jessica Ainslie

Engineering Award: Jackson Solomon

Science Award: Davy Ragland.

Social Studies

Jay Wilder Award for Excellence in History: Sidney Vermeulen

Cathy Schmidel Award for Excellence in Social Science: Noor Sarwar

Ben Dillingham U.S. History Award: Kathryn Byrnes