RISING STARS OF PRINCETON DAY SCHOOL On the stage, on the field, or in the classroom, these students shine!
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Grace Lee, Caroline Lippman, Navin Rao, Kali Rigby
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Congratulations! Trevor Mackles ’22
Snow Motion by Rea Isaac ’16
Tai Tatum ’19
Kylan Tatum ’21
To Rory Finnegan ’14, Avery Gebhardt ’14, Adam Gershen ’15, Grace Lively ’15, and Julianna Zink ’15, who had photographs accepted for the 2013 Drexel University College of Media Arts and Design High School Photography Contest Exhibition. Only 125 images were chosen from more than 1350 images submitted from all over the country.
To Grace Lee ’15 and Caroline Lippman ’15, who were chosen to attend the New Jersey Scholars Program (NJSP), a 5-week intensive and interdisciplinary academic summer program, hosted this year at the Lawrenceville School, for a group of the top students in New Jersey.
To Navin Rao ’15 and Kali Rigby ’15, who were chosen to participate in the prestigious Governor’s School in New Jersey residency program this summer.
To Akhil Parlapalli ’14, who presented his research project at the New Jersey Regional Science Fair and won first place in Behavioral Science, won the American Psychology Association Award, and was selected as a Finalist for the Intel Science and Engineering Fair in Los Angeles. To DJ Modzelewski ’14 for winning the Chemistry I Award; to Justin Donnelly ’14 for winning the Biology II Award; to Meghan Wilmott ’16 for winning the Chemistry I Award; and to Adrien Farhat ’16 for winning the Chemistry I Award, all awarded from the New Jersey Science League. To Rea Isaac ’16 who was awarded first prize in the 2014 D&R Greenway Land Trust High School Student Photographic Juried Show. Mallory Richards ’14 placed 4th and Helen Healey ’16 placed 5th place in the show.
To Ziad Ahmed ’17, who founded Redefy (www.redefy.org) a teen movement gaining national and international attention that has the goal of defying stereotypes and embracing acceptance and tolerance. As the website states: “Redefy strives to encourage curiosity and the pursuit of knowledge. Redefy believes that we should all stand together and vow to live our lives through freedom and acceptance.”
To CJ Young ’14 and Kyle Weller ’16, who were selected in the United States Hockey League draft. The USHL is arguably the top junior league in North America and viable training ground for many future Division 1 ice hockey players.
To Tai Tatum ’19 and Kylan Tatum ’21 who were both Golden Key Piano Competition winners this past year. Tai performed at Carnegie Hall and Kylan performed at Lincoln Center.
To Ali Surace ’22, Jackie Chen ’22, Tommy Sarsfield ’19, Bryn Aprill ’19, Isabelle Huang ’19, Walt Emann ’19, Nina Kanamaluru ’19, Linnéa Eberly ’18, Rahul Bhatia ’18, Morgan Mills ’17, Shana Mimnaugh ’17, Meghan Wilmott ’16, and Erin Murray ’15, whose poetry, prose, and artwork was included in the 26th volume of aMuse: Poetry, Prose and Artwork by Students K-12, published by the Arts Council of Princeton. To Trevor Mackles ’22, ice hockey player, who made Team Pennsylvania and competed in The Brick Invitational Hockey Tournament.
To our impressive PDS chess team: Four fortunate chess players were able to travel to Dallas and compete in the National Chess Championship. Kai Shah ’22 won an individual trophy of 3rd place in his rating class (1200-1299), winning 4 of his 7 games. Winston Ni ’23, rated 1826, a grade national champion and the highest rated player at PDS, was tenth seated in the K-3 Championship section. Aadi Shankar ’24, rated 676, going into the Nationals, played in the K-3 section for players rated Under 800 and was tied at for 4th place out of a field of 318 kids, bringing home a two-tiered trophy. Abi Mundayat ’25, rated 827, played in the highly competitive K-1 Championship section. Abi was the only New Jersey player in the K-1 section and had his best win against an 1128 rated player from New York. Abi finished 80th out of 307 players. Fall 2014