Silver Knight Awards
Monique Jones
March 17, 2010
Filed under In the News, Student Life, Top Stories
On March 3, 2010, nine of CCA’s seniors participated in interviews for the Silver Knight Awards, a scholarship program run by The Miami Herald. It serves as a resume builder and offers an opportunity for selected students to compete for a $2000 college scholarship and a round-trip ticket to anywhere in the continental U.S. “The application process is lengthy,” explained Mrs. Naomi Peyton. “They are going head to head with the brightest senior minds in the county and this competition has been in existence since 1984 for Broward students.”
Each nominee was chosen for a specific category. Coral Morris for Art, Kaylee Groeneveld for Athletics, Kim Kelly for Drama, Brittany Pendley for Music, Danielle Germaine for English, Kelsey Thomas for a General Scholarship, Joe Rogers for Mathematics, Adam Ridenour for Science, and Daniel Poeana for Social Science.
Every interview varied based on category. “The judges asked us questions related to our specific categories to get to know us a little bit better,” says Kelly.
The Silver Knight Program is a great opportunity to prepare seniors for the professional world that awaits them after high school, giving them opportunities to practice a real interview. But it is also an outreach tool. “Silver Knight prepared and challenged me to communicate God’s love in an academic environment where God’s name is unmentioned and unrecognized,” says Germaine. “Seeing God put people in our path to minister to, represent His love, and give the judges a reason to wonder at what made us different, is all that I could ever pray for. Our mission was accomplished in these things alone.”