Watch the 65th annual Miami Herald/el Nuevo Herald Silver Knight Awards
The 65th annual Miami Herald/el Nuevo Herald Silver Knight Awards will be held live at 7 p.m. Thursday to recognize the extraordinary accomplishments of high school seniors in Miami-Dade and Broward counties.
This year’s competition, at the James L. Knight Center in downtown Miami, includes 750 students who were nominated from 69 Miami-Dade and 32 Broward public, charter and private schools.
More than 40 judges apiece in each county interviewed the 750 seniors — an increase of 89 students from the 661 total in 2022. The students are judged in various high school disciplines: art, athletics, business, digital media, drama, English, general scholarship, journalism, mathematics, music, science, social science, speech, vocational tech and world languages.
The judges chose the 30 winners — 15 seniors from Miami-Dade, 15 from Broward — and 90 Honorable Mentions, many of whom will grace the Knight Center stage Thursday evening.
How to watch the live broadcast
The event will also be broadcast on the Miami Herald’s YouTube page and Facebook page.
To watch a livestream of the ceremony, refresh those pages at 7 p.m. Thursday, May 25, when the event begins.
What Silver Knights win
Each of the 30 Silver Knight winners will receive a $2,000 scholarship from the Herald Charities Foundation, in addition to a medallion and the Silver Knight statue. They also will receive 25,000 American Advantage miles, good for one round-trip flight in the continental United States, courtesy of American Airlines.
The Silver Knight Awards also recognizes 90 seniors as Honorable Mentions. Each will receive a plaque and a $500 scholarship from the Herald Charities Foundation.
Famous Silver Knights
Previous Miami Herald Silver Knight winners included Amazon founder Jeff Bezos (Palmetto High, 1982), “Rocky” composer Bill Conti (North Miami High, 1959) and U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy (Palmetto, 1994).
Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was a Silver Knight Honorable Mention recipient in the Drama category when she was a Miami Palmetto senior in 1988.
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This story was originally published May 24, 2023 at 1:03 PM.
