2021 Academic Awards Ceremony
May 18, 2021
Thank you to Grace Matthews and Annika Colmer for their photography. View their pictures from the event here!
HARTSVILLE, SC - On May 17, 2021, The South Carolina Governor’s School for Science + Mathematics held the 2021 Academic Awards Ceremony in the gymnasium. GSSM students were honored with a litany of scholarships and departmental awards.
The awards are as follows:
Agnes Scott Book Award
Whitney Kitchen
Smith College Book Award
Ella Alan
Tulane University Book Award
Joshua Keable
Wellesley Book Award
Yashvi Patel
West Point Leadership Award
Frank Estock
Yale University Book Award
Aidan Driscoll
Major James Lide Coker Outstanding Leadership Award
Raeva Bali
Take Flight Award
Tiffany Felix
National Merit Finalists
Caleb Doan, Haleigh Gartner, Caspen Gregory, Emma Keiser, Arija Makela-Harms, Elena Morgan, Son Nguyen, Oliver Rancu, Madeline Robertson, Jacob Shaw, Lucia Stevick Brown
Beta Club Scholarship
Devin Laye
John D. Hollingsworth Scholarship at Furman
Kaylin Mahal Smith, Aubrey Best, Emily Anne Harris, Caspen Gregory, Zachary Goodwin
Presidential Scholarship-Rochester Institute of Technology
Matthew Jett, Deandre "Raul" Francis, Ethan Mills, Benjamin Sale
Shubert Scholarship at Ohio Wesleyan University
Lillian Coats
Breakthrough Scholars-Clemson University
Christian Ihekweazu
Presidential Scholarship University of Alabama
Benjamn Sale
Robertson Scholars Leadership Program at UNC
Oliver Rancu
Jefferson Scholar UVA
Lucia Stevick Brown
Wells Scholars U Indiana
Lucia Stevick Brown
US Naval Academy
Katherine Ryan
University of Rochester George Eastman Young Leader Award
Akhil Devarapalli
History Departmental Award
Emily Anne Harris, LeeAnn Parker
University of Rochester Frederick Douglass & Susan B. Anthony Award
Ailani Fraser
English Departmental Award
Will Walker, Oliver Rancu
Honorable Mentions: Eva Fulcher, Scout Hamrick, Camille Day, Elena Morgan, Maggie Wensink, LeeAnn Parker
Le Prix Francophone
Lucia Brown, Tiffany Felix, Oliver Rancu
Chinese Language Award
Ethan Camp, Kobe Jiang, Ethan Mills
Premio EÑE
Ethan Mills, Elena Morgan, Maggie Wensink
Leonard Bernstein Musicianship Award
Kaylin Mahal Smith
Visual Arts Award
Camryn Brown, Katie McConnell
Entrepreneurial Leadership Award
David Bullock
Economics and Finance Award
Ravi Guruvelli
RIT Computing Medal Award and Scholarship Program
Firdavs Nasriddinov, Katie Camille Day
University of Rochester Xerox Innovation and Technology Information Award
David C. Parker
Senior Computer Science Award
Kyle Koon, Alaina Blaire Carson
RIT Innovation and Creativity Award and Scholarship Program
Joseph Harrison Walker, Jasmine Hagerty
Engineering Award
Andrew Chekanov, Natalie Mueller
Robotics Award
Andrew Sherburne, Madeline Robertson
Mathematics Excellence Award
Vansh Nagpal
Mathematics Achievement Award
Stephen Orr
University of Rochester Bausch & Lomb Award
Martin Castellanos Cubides
Biology Departmental Award
Ethan Mills
Chemistry Departmental Award
Haleigh Gartner, Elena Morgan
Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute Medal
Isabel Rancu
Physics Departmental Award
Oliver Rancu
Dr. William C. Alexander Excellence in Research Award
Lucia Brown & Vansh Nagpal
Spirit of GSSM
Christian Ihekweazu & Elizabeth Middleton