40 percent of all regional awards given to HB students

Twenty-three HB Upper School students earned 45 commendations from the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, a longstanding, highly competitive local and national visual and literary arts competition. Forty-two writing awards and three arts awards were earned by HB ninth through 12th graders this year, including three Gold Keys, five Silver Keys, and 37 Honorable Mentions. This accounts for more than 40 percent of all 96 writing awards distributed in the region. The written work of the Gold Key winners will go on to New York for judging in the national exhibit in the spring.

Congratulations to HB’s awarded students:

Isabelle Arnson '13: Gold Key, personal essay; Silver Key, poetry
Riya Jagetia '14: Gold Key, personal essay
Isabella Nilsson '16: Gold Key, flash fiction; three Honorable Mentions, fiction

Michelle Chapman '13: Silver Key, poetry
Michele Zhou '14: Silver Key, personal essay; Honorable Mention, poetry
Dhiksha Balaji '14: Silver Key, personal essay
Zoe Harvan '13: Silver Key persuasive essay, three Honorable Mentions personal essay, Honorable Mention portfolio

Honorable Mentions: Alden Cowap '13 (poetry), Danielle Frankel '13 (poetry and animated video), Caroline Jobson '16 (poetry, flash fiction, persuasive essay), Sylvia Krebs '13 (poetry), Hannah Margolis '13 (poetry, short story), Stephanie Poland '13 (poetry), Grace Yi '13 (poetry), Olivia Julian '13 (personal essay), Mary Alice Koon '13 (personal essay), Aparna Narendrula '14 (personal essay, persuasive writing),   (personal essay), Katie Everett '13 (flash fiction), Joyce Guo '13 (three for short stories, one for portfolio), Brenna Scully '13 (two for persuasive essays, one for portfolio), Jessie Adkins '13 (comic), Charlotte Zale '13 (comic)