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6<strong>Coral</strong> <strong>Reef</strong> Sr. <strong>High</strong><br />
May 2012<br />
The Miami Herald Silver Knight Awards is one of the nation’s most highly<br />
regarded student awards programs. The purpose of this Awards program is to<br />
recognize outstanding students who have not only maintained good grades but have<br />
also unselfishly applied their special knowledge and talents to contribute significant<br />
service to their schools and communities. The Silver Knight Awards program was<br />
instituted at The Miami Herald in 1959 by John S. Knight, past publisher of The<br />
Miami Herald, founder and editor emeritus of Knight-Ridder Newspapers and 1968<br />
Pulitzer Prize winner.<br />
The program is open to high school seniors with a minimum 3.2 GPA<br />
(unweighted) in public, private, and parochial schools in Miami-Dade and Broward<br />
counties. Students may be nominated in 15 categories: Art, Athletics, Business,<br />
Drama, English & Literature, Foreign Language, General Scholarship, Journalism,<br />
Mathematics, Music, New Media, Science, Social Science, Speech, and Vocational-<br />
Technical. Each school may nominate one student per category.<br />
Nominees from all schools appear on a designated day to be interviewed by<br />
a panel of independent judges. Each panel of judges selects one Silver Knight and<br />
three Honorable Mentions in that category. Names are not revealed until the Silver<br />
Knight Awards ceremony. Silver Knights receive $2,000, a Silver Knight statue and<br />
a medallion presented by American Airlines. The three Honorable Mentions are<br />
presented $500 and an engraved plaque. The cash awards are made possible in part by<br />
the generous support of the Blank Family Foundation.<br />
<strong>Coral</strong> <strong>Reef</strong> failed to take home a winner this year, but had three Honorable<br />
Mentions: Kira Konstanze Kuhnert, Mario Arcila, and Leah Claire Singer.<br />
Mario Arcila<br />
ART<br />
“For four years, I helped<br />
children ages 6 and older<br />
develop space in their art.”<br />
Kira Kuhnert<br />
ATHLETICS<br />
“I raised over $20,000<br />
to get my Best Buddy<br />
Chris to two dolphin<br />
facilities. I’m also the<br />
junior Ambassador for<br />
the charity organization<br />
‘dolphin aid’.”<br />
Emerson King<br />
BUSINESS<br />
“I went to Columbia with<br />
hundreds of backpacks<br />
filled with supplies for<br />
underprivileged children.”<br />
Elizabeth Fiorentino<br />
DRAMA<br />
“I packed backpacks<br />
with school supplies for<br />
elementary students in a<br />
title one school in Green<br />
Iti Mehta<br />
ENGLISH/LIT<br />
“I taught English and basic<br />
reading and writing skills<br />
to children with cerebral<br />
palsy in India.”
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