Student Accolades

Ninety-nine seniors graduated in the CLASS OF 2022 Commencement ceremony.

BIJAAN NOORMOHAMED ’23 was published in the prestigious Poetry magazine, which accepts only .23% of submissions.

The QUIZ BOWL A-Team won first place in the National Academic Quiz Tournament’s Small School National Championship, and the B-Team claimed third.

The PHOTOGRAPHY PROGRAM was named “Top Program” by the Association of Texas Photography Instructors for the 15th time in 16 years.

Several members of the MODEL U.N. CLUB were honored for their skills in public speaking, debate and history at the 69th session of the Harvard

Model United Nations. At the 2022 Texas State Junior Classical League Convention, the School’s classics team took first place in the advanced and intermediate levels and second at the novice level. These Marksmen from the Class of 2022 earned 17 first-place blue ribbons and nine second-place ribbons.

Salman Sami Abbasi Jeffrey Jiarui Chen Matthew Luke Fan Alex Frank Geng Mikhail Ghosh Jedidiah Dhabin Kim Adam J. Lai Evan Lai Ashvin Nair Lars Andreas Ochs Sampath Krishna Rapuri Alexander Louis Ryan Matthew Thomas Shen William Christopher Shoup James Matthew Singhal Ekansh Vinay Tambe Adam Jue-Wen Wang Darren J. Xi Jeremy Yu

THE CLASS OF 2030 was named national champions in the gold division of the WordMasters Challenge, an annual national vocabulary competition involving 125,000 students.

St. Mark’s hosted speakers from Google’s Quantum Hardware Lab, The Nature Conservancy, NASA, and others at its 10th annual STEM CONFERENCE.

Nineteen seniors were inducted into the local chapter of the CUM LAUDE SOCIETY.

SURYA DINESH ’25 and MATTHEW FAN ’22 reached the semifinals of the U.S. Physics Olympiad, two of only about 350 students nationwide to do so. HILTON SAMPSON ’25 will represent the United States at the 2022 Chinese Bridge World Competition in Beijing this fall after winning the DFW area competition.