Congratulations to all Hawken STEMM students on their success at the 16^th Annual Dr. Robert Maciunas STEMM Research Symposium held last week. As Director of Hawken's Paepke STEMM Research Program Lacy Chick notes, “Our students did amazing work over the last year and a half and brought all their research and expertise together to present to judges and the Hawken community.”

Congratulations to the 24 Hawken seniors who received recognition in the 2025 National Merit Scholarship Program.

More than 6,600 students from 1,500 schools across the country competed June 15-21 at the National Speech and Debate Association national tournament in Des Moines, Iowa. By week's end, the Hawken Speech and Debate Team earned the Association's highest honor and was named a School of Outstanding Distinction, awarded to the top ten schools in the country for overall speech and debate excellence. Hawken was the only school in Ohio to receive this honor.

In 2015, as part of the design work to create the Mastery School of Hawken, Head of School Scott Looney created the model for the Mastery Transcript, a new digital transcript that assessed academic credits through faculty review of digital portfolios of student’s best work, rather than seat time in courses, and without letter grades.

Join us in congratulating the Class of 2024 on their college choices! This is the second year that Hawken's graduating class includes students from both the Upper School and the Mastery School of Hawken—and those from the Mastery School have completed all four of their high school years at our University Circle campus.

Twelve Upper School Hawks did a stellar job representing Hawken School’s STEMM Program at last night’s 71^st Annual Northeastern Ohio Science and Engineering Fair (NEOSEF), where students presented their projects to esteemed experts in their respective STEM fields. Our Hawken representatives brought home prizes in Biology, Chemistry, Health-Medicine, and Engineering, as well as multiple prizes in 13 Professional Award categories, and a total of $2000 in cash prizes.

Congratulations to the girls swim team on being named state runner-up at the state championship meet! Special kudos go to Sarah Pophal '24 for winning her second consecutive individual state title in dramatic fashion, after trailing most of the race and crushing the last 100 yards.

The Hawken Speech and Debate Team competed at the Ohio Speech and Debate Association state tournament February 29 - March 2, at Wooster High School. The Hawks emerged as Team State Champions! This is the team's fourth team state championship, having won previously in 2014, 2016, and 2021.

Congratulations to the ten Hawken seniors who have been named finalists in the 2024 National Merit Scholarship Competition: Tolga Cavusoglu, David Dettelbach, Pranay Gupta, Andrew Hou, Kevin Jin, Elena Padley, Luka Simpfendorfer, Eva Stern, Niko Ustin (Mastery School), and Kahjin Yap.

Congratulations to Hawken seniors Pranay Gupta and Kevin (Hongyu) Jin on being invited to apply for the prestigious Presidential Scholars Program.