Student Accolades

Sahil Dodda ’22 took first-place at the Eastbay South Region Cross Country Meet setting a new meet record. Sahil next competed in the Eastbay Cross Country National Championships, earning an Honorable Mention A-American.

At the 2021 Dallas BEST Robotics Tournament, the St. Mark’s Robotics Team took home the “Founders’ Award for Creative Design”— the award for the best-designed robot in the eyes of the judges.

Varsity Wrestlers Hayward Metcalf ’23, Jedidiah Kim ’22, and Elijah Ellis ’22 won state in their weight class for the second year in a row.

The Lower School LEGO Robotics Club competed in their first local meet this year, finishing fourth overall and receiving the Core Values Award in recognition of their enthusiasm and spirit.

The National Merit Scholarship Program named 22 members of the Class of 2022 as Semifinalists.

Evan Lai ’22, Owen Simon ’22, Ekansh Tambe ’22, Paul Valois ’22, and Tomek Marczewski ’22 received National Young Arts Recognition, with Evan and Tomek being recognized as finalists, and Tomek being nominated for Presidential Scholar in the Arts for Design Arts.

Marksmen accounted for nearly one-third of the selections by the Texas Photographic Society’s International Student Competition. The Texas Private Music School Educators Association awarded All-State Orchestra honors to 12 Marksmen, All-State Jazz Band honor to four Marksmen, and All-State Choir honors to 12 Marksmen.

The National Scholastic Press Association (NSPA) recently announced the winners of its highest recognition, the Pacemaker Award. Three student publications earned Pacemakers (The ReMarker student newspaper, Focus special interest magazine, and The Scientific Marksmen science journal) and 22 individual students earned national recognition for their work.

Four seniors were named National African American Recognition Program Scholars, and six were named National Hispanic Recognition Program Scholars by the College Board.

Ben Gravel ’22 and Isaac Song ’22 successfully developed an application that more accurately determined location deep underwater at the request of Victor Vescovo ’84, to assist in his record-breaking deep-sea explorations.

Anthony Wang ’23 was selected to represent Team USA in the 2021 FIRST Global Challenge, an Olympic-style, international robotics competition. The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis honored Ekansh Tambe ’22 as a recipient of its 2021 Power of Children Awards for his photojournalism project and TEDx talk called Beyond Borders, which focuses on documenting problematic border areas around the world so others can better understand the issues and facilitate positive change.