2008 Awards

Each year, outstanding achievements by our students are recognized in many ways. Many awards have been established to honour the lives of teachers or students, and are much sought-after. The major awards and their recipients for the 2007-2008 school year are recorded below:

High School

Valedictorian: Boris Popov. This award goes to the senior with the highest GPA in grades 11 and 12.

Salutatorian: Anchal Lochan. This award goes to the senior with the second highest GPA in grades 11 and 12.

Best All-Round Student Award: Jamyang Choedon. Since 1929, this award has been given to the senior student who best displays scholarship, effort, leadership, participation in extracurricular activities, personal traits, cooperation with the school community, and contribution to residence life at Woodstock. The award's recipient is voted for by the senior class and the staff.

Student Government Award: Candida Dhanaraj, Boris Popov.

Pratap Chatterjee Memorial Science Award: Boris Popov.

E. E. Miller International Award: Anchal Lochan.

Centennial Shield: Grade 10 (GPA=3.33).

Champion House Award: Merlins.

Jimmy Cassinath Memorial Awards:

• Writing: Abhinanda Bhattacharyya
• Drama: Dhananjay Jajoo
• Art: Alamdar Hussain

These prizes were first awarded in 1960 from a fund established by his father in memory of Jimmy Cassinath, a member of the class of 1958. Jimmy came to WS in 1951 and died of cancer in London in 1958. These awards are given in recognition of those students with creative ability in writing, art, and drama - areas Jimmy excelled and delighted in. A candidate's work of at least one full year is judged. No one student may receive more than one Cassinath Award in a given year.

Music Awards:

• Poad Music Shield: Rebekah Marina Blank
• Mubarak Masih Indian Music Shield: Anchal Lochan

Community Service Award: Shema Bhujel, Aidan Mark Lewis, Niharika Chaudhary

Hiking Pins: None awarded

Citizenship Awards:

• Clifton Hostel: Michael Teh Chen Wu (12), Shahid Judge (11), Taditraj Hazarika (10), Lalmalsawma Hnamte (9)
• Ridgewood: Kwan Young Chung (10), Sidharth Varma Datla (9)
• Midlands: Jessica Lalnunkim Joute (12), Krisha Rajkarnikar (12), Vedika Birla (11), Jennifer Wu (10), Han Sol Lee (10), Nitisha Mohapatra (9)

Writing Awards: Aidan Mark Lewis, Hannah Rose Lewis

Journalism Awards:

• Writing: Shahid Judge
• Production: A. Siddharth David Shastry, Pinmanee Eowpittayakul

Audio-Visual Crew Awards: Amol Singh

Drama Awards:

• Outstanding acting: Shubhashish Sanjay Bhutiani, Rossella Straughan Laeng
• Stagecraft: Shael Joon, Sonam Yangchen

Hiking Pins: None Awarded

Certificates of Outstanding Achievement

Mathematics

Shotaro Yamauchi

Science

• Biology: Anchal Lochan
• Chemistry: Boris Popov
• Environmental Science: Amanda Leigh Styer
• Physics: Boris Popov

Social Studies

• Economics: Boris Popov
• History: Daniel Roger Palmer

Modern Languages

• Hindi:Not awarded
• French: Boris Popov

English

No nominee

Music

• Orchestra: Elisa Rosanna Tamminen
• Concert Band: Eri Takeuchi
• Jazz Band: Avalokiteshwara Kaul
• Choral: Richa Neelam Ekka
• Indian Music: Avanindra Datt Saklani

Scholastic Achievement with silver pin (3+ awards)

Grade 12: Rebekah Marina Blank, Jamyang Choedon, Gonpo Dorje Lama, Aidan Mark Lewis, Anchal Lochan Megha Maniar

Grade 11: Vedika Birla, Amrita Kaur Dhillon, Rithambhra Garg, Tenzing Namtse Lama, Atin Ramola

Scholastic Achievement

Grade 12: Aman Agarwal, Shema Bhujel, Niharika Chaudhary, Sydney Elizabeth Darden, Julia Whitman Davis, Anchal Lochan, Anja Elisabeth Polstra, Amanda Leigh Styer, Elisa Rosanna Tamminen, Shotaro Yamauchi

Grade 11: Akshay Kamalkishore Agarwal, Kabir Banerjee, Abhinanda Bhattacharyya, Sang Eun Cho, Chholay Namgay Dorji, Richa Neelam Ekka, Pinmanee Eowpittayakul, Mitali Gupta, Indira Laothamatas, Sukhyeun Lee, Daniel Roger Palmer, Raisa Sanjna Rahman, Hilary Frances Smith, Silas Jacob Thomas, Trung Thanh Ton

Grade 10: Raag Bhatia, Louis Iskandar Bonhoure, Sahil Jain, Devika Jajoo, Temjenmoa Jamir, Baul Jeon, Ennuri Jo, Eun A Jo, Jin Ok Jun, Ki Hoon Jung, Aman Khanna, Isara Laothamatas, Chang Yoon Lee, Han Sol Lee, Elizabeth Margaret Maxey, Sung-Oh Moon, Joshua Remsanga, Thomas Ross Swanson, Tokuji Tanaka, Aditya Todi, Neema Longkumer Tsering, Anirudh Vohra, Jetsuen Wangmo

Grade 9: Ysolt Brar, Aditya Vikram Das, Kritika Tara Deb, Caitlin Linao Eby-McKenzie, Yu Sung Eo, Devika Hastak, Hyun Kue Jeong, Seoyoung Kim, Bu Lee, Joonwon Lee, Ye Na Lee, Sungeun Moon, Jai Nalwa, Min Jae Park, Yerim Park, Nayantara Shilpin Patel, Naomi Jayne Roche, Shirly Susan Samuel, Aman Sethi, Jae Eun Shim, Se Min Suh, Tariqa Farrell Tandon

New National Honour Society Members

Grade 9: Gaurav Adhikari, Devika Hastak, Nitisha Mohapatra, Nayantara Patel, Naomi Roche, Shirly Samuel, Aman Sethi

Grade 10: Baul Jeon, Uday Keith, Aman Khanna, Hannah Lewis, Sung-Oh Moon, Neema Tsering

Grade 11: Neha Abraham, Richa Ekka, Tomo Miura, Christopher Thomas

Middle School

Hiking Awards

Bronze: Asha Swanson, Giacomo Samms, Utsav Garg, Sheena Jelaji, Milo Cannings, Emma Liechty, Prashansa Dickson, Akira Kakkar, Indra Prakash, Ankita Suna, Juldis T, Priyankar Chand

Gold: Ariella Blank

Care Award

Utsav Garg

Elementary School

Ruth Shepherd Award for Creative Writing: Aidan Hugg

This award, established in memory of Ruth by parents Malcolm and June Shepherd, recognizes the third grader who shows most talent in creative writing.

Outstanding Academic Achievement Award

Grades 1/2: Hanyu Tang   

Grade 3: Nayan Prakash

Grade 4: Sannae Atwal-Forrest

Grade 5: Shiny Samuel & Amani Mehra