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Seniors earn recognition at annual Silver Knight ceremony
Sirja Jõeveer ’25 won a Silver Knight Award for Music and Dance, joining just 30 high school seniors in Miami-Dade County who earned the highest honors at the 67th Silver Knight Awards for academic excellence and community service on May 15. An accomplished ballet dancer, Jõeveer was honored by the Miami Herald/el Nuevo for combining her passions for dance and social justice. Rebecca Paresky '25 also claimed an honorable mention in the Digital and Interactive Media category.
They were joined at the ceremony by fellow RE nominees: Anya Bhandari '25 (Vocational Technical); Mia Bouyoucef '25 (Science); Marley Carrillo '25 (Speech); Maya Fern '25 (Social Science); Andrew Gedde '25 (Math); Kenzie Kaplan '25 (Journalism); Eduardo Michelsen '25 (Business); Emma Perdigon '25 (Art); Riley Sepin '25 (Athletics); Kayra Serpenguzel '25 (English); Ethan Sullivan '25 (General Scholarship); and Sindhu Talluri '25 (World Languages).
Previous Silver Knight winners have included Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who won the Silver Knight in Science in 1982 representing Palmetto High, and Ted Hendricks, a former University of Miami standout and NFL Hall of Famer who won a Silver Knight in Athletics for Hialeah High in 1965. The newest U.S. Supreme Court justice, Ketanji Brown Jackson, won an Honorable Mention in Drama as a Palmetto High senior in 1988.
All told, 1,525 students have won Silver Knight Awards since the first class was nominated in 1959. This year, 935 students in Miami-Dade, Broward and Monroe counties were nominated, representing 90 schools in Miami-Dade, 33 schools in Broward and three schools in Monroe. The students are judged by professionals in 15 disciplines: art, athletics, business, digital and interactive media, drama, English & literature, general scholarship, journalism, mathematics, music & dance, science, social science, speech, vocational technical and world languages. In addition to the 30 winners – 15 each in Miami-Dade and Broward – 90 other students were named Honorable Mentions.
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Previous Silver Knight winners have included Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who won the Silver Knight in Science in 1982 representing Palmetto High, and Ted Hendricks, a former University of Miami standout and NFL Hall of Famer who won a Silver Knight in Athletics for Hialeah High in 1965. The newest U.S. Supreme Court justice, Ketanji Brown Jackson, won an Honorable Mention in Drama as a Palmetto High senior in 1988.
All told, 1,525 students have won Silver Knight Awards since the first class was nominated in 1959. This year, 935 students in Miami-Dade, Broward and Monroe counties were nominated, representing 90 schools in Miami-Dade, 33 schools in Broward and three schools in Monroe. The students are judged by professionals in 15 disciplines: art, athletics, business, digital and interactive media, drama, English & literature, general scholarship, journalism, mathematics, music & dance, science, social science, speech, vocational technical and world languages. In addition to the 30 winners – 15 each in Miami-Dade and Broward – 90 other students were named Honorable Mentions.
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