Monday, April 8, 2024

Yale Book Awards, 2024

YWAA leaders will present the annual Yale Book Awards this spring, which are awarded to outstanding Westchester high school students. The schools select the winners, who are cited for excellence in academics, extracurricular activities and contributions to the community.

Book award winners in 2024 will be shown below, as winners are announced. In most years, awards are granted to students from over 25 Westchester high schools. 

Last year's winners included some who have started or led service organizations on campus, been engaged in research in biology, excelled in a broad range of AP courses, starred on sports teams (baseball, wrestling and soccer), and won county honors in band and music (violin and trumpet).

A list of some of the winners in 2023 is shown below.

Teachers, counselors and principals help choose one student for each designated high school. Winners are highlighted at honors programs or school events and receive a selected book from YWAA and a certificate of achievement. 

In years past, the book included such titles as Yale Book of Quotations, Mapping the Heavens: The Radical Scientific Ideals That Reveal the Cosmos, and A Better Planet: Forty Big Ideas for a Sustainable Future. 

Winners, who are often students completing junior years, may consider applying to Yale, but are not required to do so. 

For more about YWAA Book Award presentations since 2014, click YALE-BOOK-AWARDS

Click YALE-WESTCHESTER to see a list of winners since 2008.

Yale Book Award Winners, 2023

Eastchester High School (Lucy Mortensen)

Edgemont High School (Kathryn Lux Koch)

New Rochelle High School (Eileen Weisner)

Port Chester High School (Frances Nakeysha Fevrier)

Salesian High School (Joseph Roman IV)

Scarsdale High School (Kyle Pidedjian)

School of the Holy Child (Rebecca Weigle)

Tuckahoe High School (Joanne Arana)

Valhalla High School (Sarthak Bagchi)

White Plains High School (Shariya Hasan)

Woodlands High School (Alexander Maiello)

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