Hats Are Off to Stratford’s 2020-2021 Student Award Winners!

Given the challenges students faced this past year, Stratford School students have continued to work hard to expand their knowledge and create innovative and meaningful solutions to real world problems. Stratford’s hats are off as we recognize their resilience and perseverance!

Stratford students – in both Southern California and Northern California – have taken home over 65 awards in their Virtual Science Fair competitions, debates, math competitions, and creative challenges. Here is a snapshot of just some of Stratford’s Award Winners.

• Booksmart Essay Contest
○ Chloe Grotz: 1st Place Winner
○ Xavier Diaz: 2nd Place Winner
○ Kishan Mistry: 3rd Place Winner
• Broadcom MASTERS National Science Competition — Top 300
○ Aadit Golwala
○ Yash Golwala
○ Tanisha Gupta
○ Vedant Janapaty
○ Bhargava Kanakapura
○ Aahan Shah
○ Anika Bhat
• California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF)
○ Anika Bhat: 1st Place Winner in Mathematical Sciences Junior Division
○ Preston Wang: 1st Place Winner in Environmental Science
• California High School Speech Association’s Middle School State Championship
○ Debate Team: Sahngwie Yim and Ashton Chen: 1st Place “Lincoln Douglas Debate”
• Changemaker Award for “Teardrop Residence” design proposal
○ Audrey Hsu and Fiona Yao
• Orange County Science & Engineering Fair (OCSEF)
○ Chloe Dorman: 1st Place Winner, Pharmacology Category, Top 7 Overall OCSEF Junior Division, Broadcom MASTERS Nomination
○ Preston Wang: 2nd Place Winner, Environmental Science Category, Broadcom MASTERS Nomination
• Math Kangaroo International Competition
○ Amadeo Bhatia: MK Level 2 National Gold Medal, California Blue Ribbon Winner
○ Andrew Cai: MK Level 3 National Gold Medal, California Blue Ribbon Winner
○ Ivy Liu: MK Level 4 National Top 10 Winner
○ Augustin Bhatia: MK Level 1 Top 20 Winner
○ Danyal Teymurazov: MK Level 3 Top 20 Winner
○ Ethan Sun: MK Level 3 Top 20 Winner
○ Bryan Wang: MK Level 4 Top 20 Winner
• Tomorrow’s Entrepreneur’s Ideathon
○ Anya Lachwani: 2nd Place Award Winner
• TIME Kids Reporter Contest
○ Rory Hu: 1 of 10 Outstanding Kids chosen to be a reporter
• Youth Media Challenge – Political Cartoon
○ Khushi Chitkara: Featured in KQED’s Youth Media Showcase

In the face of so many challenges, Stratford students triumphed and Stratford is grateful to have found so many memorable moments to celebrate and acknowledge these incredible accomplishments!

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