The Silver Knight Award is a high honor given to a select group of outstanding high school students. This year, 15 students are official nominees for the prestigious award. Silver Knight nominees must have an outstanding academic history, an impressive and impacting community service record.

 

Silver Knight Nominees are in the running for the prestigious Silver Knight Award, which is awarded by The Miami Herald in a ceremony scheduled for May 26, 2022, recognizing nominees as well as winners. Congratulations on this nomination, Patriots!

 

ART
Angelica Arias

 

DRAMA
Ethan Shavelson

 

JOURNALISM
Nicole Gorbatov

 

DIGITAL & INTERACTIVE MEDIA
Elizabeth Zhu

 

SPEECH

Prateek Gupta

 

ATHLETICS
Maya Moise

ENGLISH & LITERATURE
Julia Seifer

 

MATHEMATICS
Saathvik Selvan

 

SCIENCE
Emilin Mathew

 

VOCATIONAL-TECHNICAL

Nicholas Randazzo

 

BUSINESS
Madison Rocker

 

GENERAL SCHOLARSHIP
Shana Xia

 

MUSIC AND DANCE
Noor Hachem

 

SOCIAL SCIENCE
Kaitlin Cruz

 

WORLD LANGUAGES
Rohan Kumar

 

The Miami Herald Silver Knight Awards is one of the nation’s most highly regarded student awards programs. The purpose of this awards program is to recognize outstanding students who have not only maintained good grades but have also unselfishly applied their special knowledge and talents to contribute significant service to their schools and communities. The Silver Knight Awards program was instituted at The Miami Herald in 1959 by John S. Knight, past publisher of The Miami Herald, founder and editor emeritus of Knight-Ridder Newspapers and 1968 Pulitzer Prize winner.

 

The program is open to high school seniors with a minimum 3.2 GPA (unweighted) in public, private, and parochial schools in Miami-Dade and Broward counties. Students may be nominated in 15 categories: Art, Athletics, Business, Digital & Interactive Media, Drama, English & Literature, General Scholarship, Journalism, Mathematics, Music & Dance, Science, Social Science, Speech, Vocational Technical and World Languages. Each school may nominate one student per category.

 

Nominees from all schools appear on a designated day to be interviewed by a panel of independent judges. Each panel of judges selects one Silver Knight and three Honorable Mentions in that category. Names are not revealed until the Silver Knight Awards ceremony. Silver Knights receive $2,000, a Silver Knight statue and a medallion. The three Honorable Mentions are presented $500 and an engraved plaque. The cash awards are made possible in part by the generous support of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.