2009 Awards
Each year, outstanding achievements by our students are recognized in many ways. Many awards have been established to honour the lives of teachers or students, and are much sought-after. The major awards and their recipients for the 2008-2009 school year are recorded below:
Senior Awards
Valedictorian: Indira Laothamatas. This award goes to the senior with the highest GPA in grades 11 and 12.
Salutatorian: Tenzing Namtse Lama. This award goes to the senior with the second highest GPA in grades 11 and 12.
Best All-Round Student Award: Rithambhra Garg. Since 1929, this award has been given to the senior student who best displays scholarship, effort, leadership, participation in extracurricular activities, personal traits, cooperation with the school community, and contribution to residence life at Woodstock. The award's recipient is voted for by the senior class and the staff.
Student Government Award: Rithambhra Garg, Montazerul Mehdi .
Pratap Chatterjee Memorial Science Award: Rithambhra Garg.
Music Awards:
Poad Music Shield: Tomo Miura, Eri Takeuchi.
Other Major Awards
Centennial Shield: Grade 9 (Class of 2012).
Jimmy Cassinath Memorial Awards:
Drama: Shubhashish Sanjay Bhutiani.
Writing: Amrita Kaur Dhillon.
Art: Jonathan Spaldan Paljor.
These prizes were first awarded in 1960 from a fund established by his father in memory of Jimmy Cassinath, a member of the class of 1958. Jimmy came to WS in 1951 and died of cancer in London in 1958. These awards are given in recognition of those students with creative ability in writing, art, and drama - areas Jimmy excelled and delighted in. A candidate's work of at least one full year is judged. No one student may receive more than one Cassinath Award in a given year.
Champion House Award: Merlins.
Other Awards
Community Service Award: Esther Laltanpuii Khiangte, Christopher Joseph Puthiakunnel
Citizenship Awards:
- Rokeby: Shahid Judge (12), Montazerul Mehdi (12)
- Mount Hermon: Aditya Todi (11)
- Hostel Duplex: Bato Tshering (11)
- Community Centre: Atif Husain (10), Ishaan Bhandari (9)
- Midlands: Vedika Birla (12), Puja Sen (12), Hansol Lee (11), Jetsuen Wangmo (11), Devika Hastak (10), Tariqa Farrell Tandon (10), Tenzing Yangla Lama (9), Tenzing Wangmo Sherpa (9)
Writing Awards: Thomas Ross Swanson, Anirudh Vohra
Journalism Awards:
- Writing: Ennuri Jo, Tokuji Tanaka
Audio-Visual Crew Awards: Atirav Sagar Gupta, A. Siddharth David Shastry
Drama Awards:
- Outstanding acting: Yeshe Choden Rapten, Jasraj Sangha, Hilary Frances Smith
- Stagecraft: Pasa Ugyel, Sonam Yangchen
Certificates of Outstanding Achievement
Mathematics
- Akshay Kamalkishore Agarwal
Science
- Biology: Yukiho Takatsu
- Chemistry: Tenzing Namtse Lama
- Environmental Science: Pritha Rajouria
- Physics: Avalokiteshwara Kaul
Social Studies
- Economics: Indira Laothamatas
- History: Malia Miyoko Tomozawa
Modern Languages
- Hindi: Tara Dhaliwal
- French: Samita Thapa
English
- Amrita Kaur Dhillon
Art
- Tomo Miura
Music
- Orchestra: Samita Thapa
- Concert Band: Dat Quoc Bui
- Jazz Band: Eri Takeuchi
- Choral: James Yoo
- Indian Music: Pinmanee Eowpittayakul
Scholastic Achievement with silver pin (3+ awards)
Grade 12: Vedika Birla, Rithambhra Garg, Mitali Gupta, Tenzing Namtse Lama, Raisa Sanjana Rahman, Atin Ramola
Grade 11: Raag Bhatia, Ennuri Jo, Eun A Jo, Aman Khanna, Hansol Lee, Sung-Oh Moon, Joshua Remsanga, Tokuji Tanaka, Aditya Todi, Anirudh Vohra, Jetsuen Wangmo
Scholastic Achievement
Grade 12: Akshay Kamalkishore Agarwal, Richa Neelam Ekka, Pinmanee Eowpittayakul, Prabarna Ganguly, Amanda Annabelle Kapur, Avalokiteshwara Kaul, Indira Laothamatas, Avanindra Datt Saklani, Hilary Frances Smith, Yukiho Takatsu, Sonam Yangchen
Grade 11: Louis Iskandar Bonhoure, Swati Goel, Devika Jajoo, Jin Ok Jun, Ki Hoon Jung, Isara Laothamatas, Pema Dechen Rapten, Julian Zachary Schwartz, Thomas Ross Swanson, Malia Miyoko Tomozawa
Grade 10: Anamika Sumeet Bhatt, Ysolt Brar, Aditya Vikram Das, Caitlin Linao Eby-McKenzie, Yu Sung Eo, Devika Hastak, Hyun Kue Jeong, Seoyoung Kim, Bu Lee, Ye Na Lee, Sungeun Moon, Min Jae Park, Su Ah Park, Yerim Park, Nayantara Shilpin Patel, Naomi Jayne Roche, Shirly Susan Samuel, Aman Sethi, Se Min Suh, Tariqa Farrell Tandon, Ji Eun Yang
Grade 9: Aarit Ahuja, Jin Chul Ann, Sanskar Bhattacharya, Dat Quoc Bui, Priyankar Bahadur Chand, Sheng-Yao Cheng, Hyeeun Cho, Sanjana Datla, Rahul Dhakal, Tara Dhaliwal, Prashansa G.M. Dickson, Joy Faucher, Suvrat Garg, Sukham Kaur, Yo Han Kim, Baek Chun Kim, Eun Ji Kim, Tashi Ngudup Lama, Tenzing Yangla Lama, Sang Won Lee, Yo Sep Lee, Shivamkar Balraj Misra, Sanghyeok Park, Akriti Pradhan, Rohit Ranjan, Yeshe Choden Rapten, Hannah Park Roche, Tenzing Wangmo Sherpa, Jeerana Sindhuros, Maria Zenaida Swanson, Shelby Maria Thompson, Juldis Trakanthaloengsak
New National Honour Society Members
Grade 9: Dat Quoc Bui, Priyankar Bahadur Chand, Prishansa G.M. Dickson, Yeshe Choden Rapten, Hannah Park Roche, Maria Zenaida Swanson
Grade 10: Sidharth Varma Datla, Kritika Tara Deb, Tariqa Farrell Tandon
Grade 11: Swati Goel, Pema Dechen Rapten, Malia Miyoko Tomozawa
Middle School
Scholastic Achievement
Grade 8: Martha Asad -Dehghan, Liang-Yun Cheng, Jyotika Dangwal, Priyanka Das, Amanjit Johal, Mok Young Kim, Uddhav Mehra, Nina Thakur, Isabella Vogel
Grade 7: Sonam Deki, Hazel Ebenezer, Charles Halbert, Ein Jung, Anjuri Kakkar, Mansi Kedia, Ugyen Lama, Nutcha Panaspraipong, Raageshwori Pradhan, Dechen Shrestha, Asha Swanson, Gamli Yongamm
Grade 6: Samuel Cooke, Shaurya Dhingra, Yeon Sol Lee, Tseki Lhamo, Amaani Mehra, Youn Jung Na, Sang Hyun Park, Shiny Samuel, Samiha Thapa
Elementary School
Outstanding Academic Achievement Award
KG & Grades 1/2: Hanyu Tang
Grade 3: Lily Endo
Grade 4: Nayan Prakash
Grade 5: Lalhmingmawia Hmar
Ruth Shepherd Award for Creative Writing: Hyechan Jun
This award, established in memory of Ruth by parents Malcolm and June Shepherd, recognizes the third grader who shows most talent in creative writing.
Hindi as a First Language: Shikhar Dhingra
Hindi as a Foreign Language: Ankit Ranjan
Library Award: Devika Nautiyal
Music Award: Satyam Kedia
Computer Award: Sanae Atwal Forrest
Citizenship Award: Satyam Kedia /Jahnvi Garg
Silver Hiking Awards: Vanalika Nagarwalla, Nayan Prakash