The 2012 Student Recognition Night took place on Thursday, May 3 in the large gym.

A copy of the awards are posted below.

Community Awards
Presented by Wynne Satterwhite
Boys State: Jerry Liu
Girls State: Hannah Hansen
Environmental Youth Conference: Sarah Jacobs, Wendy Wu

Art Department
Presented by Christine An
Outstanding Achievement in Drawing: Laura Shea, Alyssa Waln
Outstanding Achievement in Painting: Michelle Deng
Outstanding Achievement in Creative Art: Tessa Cheng, Juliet Moore, Sarah Hartenbaum
Outstanding Achievement in Photography 1: Glenn Collins, Anna Martirosyan
Outstanding Achievement in Photography 2: Elizabeth Fuchs, Amy Shannon
Yearbook Superstas with Outstanding Contribution: Max Chi, Taara Prasad

Advancement Via Individual Determination
Presented by Jacob Larin
AVID Academic Excellence, Service & Leadership Award Seniors: Salvador Chavez, Heidi Hernandez Montes
AVID Academic Excellence, Service & Leadership Award Juniors: Bhavdeep Singh, Glenda Vargas
AVID Academic Excellence, Service & Leadership Award Sophomores: Barbara Garcia, Marco Martinez
AVID Academic Excellence, Service & Leadership Award Freshmen: Perla Luna, Maria Guadalupe Munoz

Mathematics Department
Presented by Carol Evans and Betty Yamazaki
American Mathematics Competition School Winners: Xianglong Ni, Matthew Ruehle, Michael Zhu
American Mathematics Competition Competition First Round Qualifiers: Runming Dai, Alexander Lier, Hongyi Shi, Willem Van Eck
American Mathematics Competition 12 Certificate Achievement & First round Qualifiers: Charles Lier, Xianlong Ni
Continental Mathematics League medal Winners: Kaizad Taraporevala, Jessica Tin
Continental Mathematics League Certificate of Distinction: Timothy Hsu, Toby Macaluso, Maya Varghese, Ryan Wong
Outstanding Contributors & Performers in Mathematics: Tali Caspi, Michael Johnson, Ian McColl, Samuel Sauerhaft, Nisha Sharma, Hongyi Shi, Kaizad Taraporevala, Willem Van Eck
Pride, Effort and Determination in Mathematics: Hanna Cooke, Nancy Maldonado, Olivia Santiago, Sparsha Saxena, David Wu

Word Language Department
Presented by Tiffany Karow
Outstanding Students in French 1: Michelle Deng, Saul Eduardo Ochoa-Campa
Outstanding Students in French 2: Ann Martirosyan, Kathryn Mueller
Outstanding Students in French 3: Richard Gao, Xianglong Ni
Outstanding Students in French Language AP: Shadee Barzin, Laura Shea
Outstanding Students in Spanish 1: Brandon Choy, Maya Varghese
Outstanding Students in Spanish 2: Amelia Baum, Kathleen Maeda, Noah Tsao
Outstanding Students in Spanish 2 Honors: Maya Acharya, Rebecca Andrews
Outstanding Students in Spanish 3: Steven Lee, Jared Rulison, Lorraine Watkins
Outstanding Students in Spanish 3 Honors: Alexander Barreira, Sarah Jacobs,
Outstanding Students in Spanish 4: John Beutter, Emily Cheng, Catherine Zhang
Outstanding Students in AP Spanish Language: Anthony Bello, Julia Chmyz
Outstanding Students in Latin 1: Leya Hsu, Kaizad Taraporevala
Outstanding Students in Latin 2: Meghan McDermott
Outstanding Students in Latin 3: Rishi Bhargava
Outstanding Students in Latin AP: Aditi Jain
Outstanding Students in Chinese 1: Noelani Kawakami

Social Studies Department
Presented by Dee Dee Pearce
Outstanding Word Studies Students: Maya Acharya, Rebecca Andres, Amelia Baum, Saul Bernal, Zachariah Cohen, Patrick McColl, Nicole Miller, Maria Guadalupe Munoz, Annaka Olson, Jina Park, Meredith Soward
Outstanding Contemporary World Issues Students: Madeline Colbert, Ryan Elson, Laura Yedra Ibarra
Outstanding United States History Students: Charlotte Bowie, Melissa Chan, Juliet Moore, Ido Simon
Outstanding United States History AP students: Julia Chmyz, Rebecca Cohen
Outstanding Modern European History AP Students: Cody Fowler, Julia Goupil, Cole Limbach, Margaret Munro, Arissa Wongpanich
Outstanding Global Connections Student: Gina Costa
Outstanding Psychology Student: Gabriella Seltzer
Outstanding History of Art AP Student: Alexandra Pchentchnikova
Outstanding Civics Students: Jodie Le Lannic, Maura Mahoney
Outstanding Economics Students: Ricardo Golzio Garcia, Vivian Hua, Lauren Kim, Kjerstie Olson, Ridthi Sanjanwala
History Students of the Year: Alison Dyer, Adam Warmoth

Physical Education & Health
Presented by Patrick Carras
9th Grade Outstanding Physical Education Students: Annelise Gallagher, Hugo Mollerstedt, Elena Strawn, Dylan Zorn
10th Grade Outstanding Physical Education Students: Natalie Fredriksson, Stephanie Yau
11th Grade Outstanding Physical Education Student: Alex Bianchi
12th Grade Outstanding Physical Education Student: Niko Rose
Outstanding Health Students: Megan Feroglia, Ina Marie Quijano

English Department
Presented by Keren Robertson
National Council of Teachers of English Writing Award: Libbie Katsev
Junior Book Awards
Brown University: Blaine Dzwonczyk
Harvard University: Jerry Liu
Mount Holyoke: Sparsha Saxena
Wellesley College: Emily Cheng
Smith College: Tali Caspi
Williams College: Josh Cohen
Academic Excellence and Special Effort in English: Maya Acharya, Nikolay Anguelov, Adeline Berrospe, Melissa Chan, Glenn Collin, Cassidy Crawford, Natalie Dwulet, Brianna Ellington, Evan Gilliland, Elizabeth Kristian, Marco Martinez, Karen Mendez, Ramiel Petros, Kaitlyn Schiffhauer, Tess Seltzer, Amanda Shantz, Bhavdeep Singh, Riley Soward, Angelica Wilson, David Wu
Senior English Department Awards
Student of the Year: Anny Dow
Excellence in Expository Writing: Vivian Hua, Audun Johnson
Excellence in Narrative Writing and Poetic Writing: Jessica Cheng, Jennifer Jou
Excellence in Insightful Contribution: Kevin Stangl, Alyssa Waln
Talon – Best Article of the Year: Josh Cohen
Talon – First Amendment Award: Anny Dow

R.O.P
Presented by Patty Fambrini
Automotive Technology
Exceptional Ability and Effort: Hanna Cooke, Lucien Muller
Culinary Art
Exceptional Ability and Effort: Konico Lopes

Performing Arts Department
Presented by Mark Shaull
Dance
Excellent Technique in Dance: Emily McKinney
Excelley Expressiveness in Dance: Casey Charlton
Outstanding Contribution to Dance: Laura Delamare
Drama
Outstanding Achievement in Acting 1: Liliana Medina, Samuel Sauerhaft
Outstanding Achievement in Acting 2 – Broken Box Theatre Company: Laura Delamare
Music/Choral
Director’s Musicianship Award: Noah Dietz, Anny Dow, Catherine Li, Hyeona Park, Ryan Rishi, Justin Solle
Santa Clara County Honor Band: Audun Johnson, David Kay, Katherine, Love, Alexie Ogonowsky, Aaron Wong, Abbey Yacoe
CBDA All-State Honor Band: Audun Johnson, Alexie Ogonowsky
American Choral Directors Award: Gonzalo Alcazar-Roman, Erin Farrell
Junior Vocal Achievement Award: Melissa Goldman
Sophomore Vocal Achievement Award: Savannah Swan
Freshman Vocal Achievement Award: Edward Barnes

Science Department
Presented by Greg Stoehr
MIT Math/Science Leadership Award: Ian McColl
The Rensselaer Medal: Runming Dai
Outstanding Earth Science Student: Axel Farcia
Outstanding Biology students: Rebecca Andrews, Leanne Glikbarg, Cameron Hayes, Julia Morgans, Ignacio Seni, Vera Sobol, Molly Vanderlip, Laura Yedra Ibarra
Outstanding Biology Honors Students: Ryan Adibi, Zachariah Cohen, Benjamin Gardner-Gill, Nicole Miller
Outstanding Biology AP Students: Natalie Dwulet, Ido Simon
Outstanding Chemistry Students: Caleb Farrand, Cody Fowler, Natalie Fredriksson, Casey Heaney, Marco Martinez
Outstanding Chemistry Honors Student: Laura Shea
Outstanding Chemistry AP Student: Katherine Liu
Outstanding Physics Students: Aimee Dang, Blaine Dzwonczyk, Omri Fried
Outstanding Physics AP Students: Runming Dai, Audra McComb, Xianglong Ni, Alyssa Waln
Outstanding Environmental Science AP Studetns: Jodie Le Lannic, Marissa Mirbach, Zachary Strom

Outstanding Academic Achievement
Presented by Cristy Dawson
Class of 2015
Alyssa Abe, Maya Acharya, Rebecca Andrews, Noy Anisman, Savannah Buchner, Kelly Carlson, Joyce Christiansen-Salameh, Chang Cui, Samantha Dadok, Michelle Deng, Katheline Do, Ryan Espiritu, Anne Gafney, Anneliese Gallagher, Benjamin Gardner-Gill, Leanne Glikbarg, Funo Heims, Riley Kahan, Nina Karmangar, Noelani Kawakami, Thomas Kelleher, Shane Kennerly, Bijan Khosraviani, Amber Kim, Elizabeth Koulikova, Elizabeth Kristian, Elain Lee, Kristen Liu, Anna Martirosyan, Alexandra Milkey, Nicole Miller, Kenneth Moussavian, Kathryn Mueller, Maria Guadalupe Munoz, Sean Nguyen, Chelsea Nivison, Sean Odnert, Samuel Sauerhaft, Kaitlyn Schiffhauer, Tess Seltzer, Jasmehr Singh, Meredith Soward, Amritha Sriram, Jessica Tin, Noah Tsao, Ashwin Vaidyanathan, Maya Varghese, Ya’el Weiner, Ryan Wong, Ryan Wu, Alvina Xu
Class of 2014
Mary Albright, Alexander Barreira, Riyana Basu, Elizabeth Bishop, Faith Chan, Madeleine Colbert, Cassidy Crawford, Jared Eng, Natalie Godfrey, Zachary Gospe, Julia Goupil, Natalie Hollenbaugh, Sarah Jacobs, Owen Jow, Christopher Lanman, Steven Lee, Katherine Liu, Ariel May Machell, Dhruv Madhok, Veronica Mark, Meghan McDermott, Kavi Mehta, Zoe Morgan, Margaret Munro, Anica Nangia, Matthew Nero, Anna Poltrack, Nikhil Rama, Matthew Ruehle, Laura Shea, Riley Soward, Aya Suzuki, Michael Waarts, Arissa Wongpanich, Elaine Zhao, Michael Zhu
Class of 2013
Tali Caspi, Emily Cheng, Kevin Coelho, Runming Dai, Blaine Dzwonczyk, Melani Hugoo, Michael Johnson, Libbie Katsev, Cathy Liu, Jerry Liu, Ian McColl, Audra McComb, Shelby Pefley, Sparsha Saxena, Richelle Smith, Allison Yuen
Class of 2012
Saleil Bhat, Rewa Bush, Anny Dow, Vivian Hua, Audun Johnson, Qiu Yuan Lim, Niki Moshiri, Gabriella Seltzer, Ivan Smirnov, Jamshed Vesuna, Jasmine Xu