The Pride | Fall 2020

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On Campus

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

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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.

St. Mark’s School of Texas


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