{"id":323928,"date":"2026-05-20T03:20:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T03:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/323928\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T03:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T03:20:11","slug":"phs-honors-2026-senior-awards-recipients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/323928\/","title":{"rendered":"PHS honors 2026 Senior Awards recipients"},"content":{"rendered":"

Piedmont High School celebrated the recipients of the 2026 Senior Awards at a Monday night ceremony in the Alan Harvey Theater. (Music award recipients will be announced at the May 21 Spring Concert.<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"\"Valedictorian Nathan Tuan.\"\"PHS Counselor Chris Hartford announces Nikolas Kalamas as Salutatorian.\"\"Diane Britto from the US Naval Academy announces Abigail Jacoby\u2019s appointment\"\"Math teacher Thomas Palsa presents Jerry Yu the award for Excellence in Mathematics.<\/p>\n

Valedictorian: Nathan Tuan<\/p>\n

Salutatorian: Nikolas Kalamas<\/p>\n

Susan Kawaichi Medal: Meher Bacher<\/p>\n

Gail Dryden Award: Chloe Koh<\/p>\n

Eric Swart Rachesky Memorial Certificate: Luke Pena<\/p>\n

League of Women Voters Civics in Action Medal: Abigail Jacoby<\/p>\n

Outstanding Senior in Drama Department Award: Amelia Addington<\/p>\n

Outstanding Senior in Drama Director\u2019s Award: Collin Cameron and Chaz Amit-Guite<\/p>\n

Painting and Drawing Award: Hadley Hayes and Olive Reining<\/p>\n

Studio Art Award: Arrietty Pereira Elliott<\/p>\n

Dean Faberman Mock Trial Award: Quentin Shafroth<\/p>\n

DeMolay Social Studies Award: Skylar Best<\/p>\n

Piedmont Certificate in\u00a0Social Studies: Rachel Young<\/p>\n

Outstanding Photojournalist\u00a0Award: Bodie Ironside<\/p>\n

Excellence in Mathematics Award: Jerry Yu<\/p>\n

Piedmont Certificate in\u00a0Mathematics: Collin Cameron<\/p>\n

Eileen Rohmer Certificate in\u00a0Science: Kate Jumper<\/p>\n

Excellence in Science Award: Cassie Colby<\/p>\n

Spanish for Excellence Award: Isabelle Myers<\/p>\n

Piedmont Certificate in Spanish: Tung Le<\/p>\n

Outstanding Mandarin Student: Veda Pao Ziegler<\/p>\n

Piedmont Certificate in Mandarin: Adrian Kondakov<\/p>\n

Excellence in English Award: Arianna Kortum<\/p>\n

Piedmont Certificate in English: Kalyani Spieckerman<\/p>\n

Outstanding Journalist Award: Sasha Jerez<\/p>\n

AATF Outstanding Senior in\u00a0French: Noah Sohn<\/p>\n

Piedmont Certificate in French: Devon Thai<\/p>\n

Computer Science Award: Darcy McKee and Jerry Jialin Yu<\/p>\n

Outstanding Female Athlete Medal: Dahlia Osman<\/p>\n

Outstanding Male Athlete Medal: Lucas Smolko<\/p>\n

Piedmont Leadership in Peer\u00a0Services Award: Stephanie Lee<\/p>\n

Leadership Impact Award: Vivian Burke<\/p>\n

Associated Student Body Award: Zach Dupree and Sydney Olson<\/p>\n

National Merit Scholarship Award Finalists: Milo Bakshi, Abigail Jacoby, Miles Kim, Maddox Ma, Aidan Patty, Nathan Tuan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Piedmont High School celebrated the recipients of the 2026 Senior Awards at a Monday night ceremony in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-323928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}