March 25, 2013:

Two Harker students were recently named national award winners in this year’s Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. Kevin Ke, grade 9, was awarded a silver medal for his digital drawing, “iCreature,” and Isha Patnaik, grade 12, received a silver medal in the photography category for “Sista, Sista.”

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Regional winners of this year’s Scholastic Art and Writing Awards were announced in early February, and a total of 27 Harker students have won regional Gold Key and Silver Key awards for their literary and artistic creations. At the middle school, Carissa Chen, grade 8, won in the drawing category for her work, titled “Forgotten,” and grade 8 student Meilan Steimle’s “Maternal Litigation” won in the personal essay/memoir category.

Upper school winners were Stephanie Chen, grade 11, for her short story “Sundial”; the digital art piece “iCreature” by freshman Kevin Ke (who also won a Gold Key for a painting titled “Mechanical Giant”); Cindy Liu, grade 10, who earned two photography honors for “Lines and Colors” and “Flower Impression”; Simon Orr, grade 12, whose “Udu No. 2” and “Copper Pot Flute” won in the ceramics and glass category; a photography piece titled “Sista, Sista” by senior Isha Patnaik; Svetlana Petrova, grade 12, who won in the painting category for “Still Life With Pumpkins” and in mixed media for “Star Spangled”;  senior Eric Swenson for the photography pieces “Hamlet” and “Claudius; Lynda Tang, also a senior, in the drawing category for “Self Portrait”; Emily Wang, grade 12, in the personal essay/memoir category for “Missed Connections and the Secret of Mattering”; and Iris Xia, grade 12, for the printmaking piece “Early Spring.”

Upper school Silver Key Award winners were Cindy Liu for the photographs “After the Snow” and “Lines,” Simon Orr for the ceramic work “Cow Pig Whistle,” Ilsa Zhang, grade 12, for the drawing “Red Lobster” and the painting “Skull and Grapes,” Iris Xia for the printmaking pieces “Cityscape” and “Newspapers,” Catherine Manea, grade 12, for the drawing “Jail Time,” Neelima Gadagottu, grade 12, for the drawing “Recharging,” Lynda Tang for the drawing “Breathing Room,” Rebecca Liu, grade 12, for the drawing “Redirection of Resources,”  Shannon Su, grade 12, for the sculpture “Burst,” Albert Chu, grade 11, for the short story “Sisyphus at His Piano,” sophomore Kacey Fang in the dramatic script category for her work “Of Age,” Emily Wang for her flash fiction piece “Mrs. Pardo” and Leo Yu, grade 10, also in flash fiction, for “The Adhesive.”

Middle school Silver Key winners were Carissa Chen for the painting “Framing Myself – An Exploration Into Culture” and the drawing “Captivated.”

Honorable mentions went to Carissa Chen for the drawing “Strangled Voices,” Rebecca Liu for the printmaking piece “Vases,” Monika Lee, grade 11, for the drawing “Gold Hard Cash,” Emily Wang for the drawings “Self-Portrait” and “The Kiss,” Ilsa Zhang for the printmaking piece “Lionhead Goldfish,” Amy Gendotti, grade 12, for the drawing “Soccer Cleats,” Justin Gerard, grade 12, for the drawings “Shirt Study” and “Lasso,” Sylvie Dobrota, grade 12, for the paintings “Self Portrait” and “Innocence,” Avni Barman, grade 10, for the drawings “Manhattan” and “Introspection” and the painting “What Makes Me…,” Jasmine Gill, grade 12, for the photograph “Los Altos,” Simon Orr for the photographs “Untitled (bell),” “Untitled (bell 2),” “Mariner,” and “Field,” senior Lori Berenberg for her poems “To Collaboration,” “Your Son Has Been Killed” and “Crumbling,” Vineet Kosaraju, grade 9, in the journalism category for the piece “Learning Life’s Hard Lessons,” Cindy Liu, grade 10, for the personal essay “My Great Grandmother Alice” and Leo Yu in flash fiction for “One Second.”