Christopher Columbus High School

A Catholic School for Young Men in the Marist Tradition since 1958
Student Life

Silver Knights

2022-23 Nominees

Columbus has had more Silver Knight Award winners (27) than any other private school in Miami-Dade County (19 won in the last 10 years).

List of 15 items.

  • Jordan Perez

    ART

  • Stefan Anzola

    ATHLETICS

  • Nicolas Postel

    BUSINESS

  • Alexis Vivanco

    DIGITAL & INTERACTIVE MEDIA

  • Christian Pico

    DRAMA

  • Enrique Villamil

    ENGLISH LITERATURE

  • Alan Munschy

    GENERAL SCHOLARSHIP

  • Lucas Figueroa

    JOURNALISM

  • Max Fonseca

    MATHEMATICS

  • David Grenier

    MUSIC

  • Alessandro Fernandez

    SCIENCE

  • Gabriel Villar

    SOCIAL SCIENCE

  • Nicholas Gonzalez

    SPEECH

  • Michael Rodriguez

    WORLD LANGUAGE

  • Armando Rubio

    VOCATIONAL TECHNICAL

CCHS Past Winners

List of 27 items.

The Miami Herald Silver Knight Awards is one of the nation’s most highly regarded student awards programs. The purpose of this Awards program is to recognize outstanding students who have not only maintained good grades but have also unselfishly applied their special knowledge and talents to contribute significant service to their schools and communities. The Silver Knight Awards program was instituted at the Miami Herald in 1959 by John S. Knight, past publisher of the Miami Herald, founder and editor emeritus of Knight-Ridder Newspapers and 1968 Pulitzer Prize winner.
 
The program is open to high school seniors with a minimum 3.2 GPA (unweighted) in public, private, and parochial schools in Miami-Dade and Broward counties. Students may be nominated in 15 categories: Art, Athletics, Business, Drama, English & Literature, General Scholarship, Journalism, Mathematics, Music and Dance, New Media, Science, Social Science, Speech, Vocational-Technical and World Languages. Each school may nominate one student per category.
 
Nominees from all schools appear on a designated day to be interviewed by a panel of independent judges. Each panel of judges selects one Silver Knight and three Honorable Mentions in that category. Names are not revealed until the Silver Knight Awards ceremony. Silver Knights receive $2,000, a Silver Knight statue and a medallion presented by American Airlines. The three Honorable Mentions are presented $500 and an engraved plaque.
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Brotherhood, Faith, and Scholarship define the Marist Brothers Catholic education at Christopher Columbus High School.  By making Jesus Christ known and loved and creating an inspiring academic and extracurricular environment, we prepare young men for higher learning and a life-long commitment to leadership and service through Gospel and Marist values.

Columbus is fully accredited by Cognia and is a member of the Marist Association of Secondary schools, the National Catholic Education Association and the Independent Schools of South Florida.