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student accolades Facts and Figures from Across Campus Warner Hartnett ’24 placed in the Top 30 among 146 students at the Chinese Bridge World Competition. Warner earned his spot after placing first in the DFW Chinese Bridge Proficiency Competition held online in May 2020.
The ReMarker editor-in-chief Sam
Throughout the spring and
Ahmed ’20 was named Texas High
summer quarantine, the Teaching
School Journalist of the Year by the
Technology Across Generations Club
Texas Association of Journalism
produced a series of tutorial videos
Educators. He is the eighth
to train residents at local senior
consecutive Marksman to receive
living facilities to use technology to
this honor.
stay in touch with their loved ones.
In February 2020, more than a dozen The St. Mark’s Robotics Team partnered
aspiring diplomats from St. Mark’s
with Victor Vescovo ’84 to design a
traveled to the 67th session of the
sediment sample collector, which
Harvard Model United Nations in Boston,
was successfully deployed during one
Massachusetts. More than half of the
of Victor’s dives to the bottom of the
Marksmen delegates won major awards.
Mariana Trench in June 2020.
Ryan McCord ’20 was named a Fifth-seven members of the Class of 2021 were honored by the National Merit Scholarship Program: 32 seniors were named Semifinalists and 25 were named Commended Scholars.
Presidential Scholar, one of only 20 seniors in the nation to be recognized for their artistic talent. Ryan is the second consecutive
for 16th place out of 200 teams at the National Speech and Debate Association’s 2020 National Championship, which was hosted virtually.
Marksman to be named a
For the second year in a row, Nicholas
Presidential Scholar in the Arts,
Tsao ’20 placed in the top 20 students
scholarship to study Hindi over the
following Kyle Smith ’19.
nationwide competing in the U.S.
summer of 2020 by the National Security
National Chemistry Olympiad and
Josh Mysore ’21 was awarded a virtual
was selected as the first alternate for
Language Initiative for Youth. For the 13th time in 14 years, St. Mark’s
12
Sal Abbasi ’22 and Max Chuang ’22 tied
Eighteen members of the Class of 2020
2019–2020 Photography has been named
were elected into the St. Mark’s School of
the “Top Program” by the Association of
Texas Chapter of the Cum Laude Society.
Texas Photography Instructors.
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Team USA.
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