Every year at StoneBridge, one student from each grade, 8th-12th, is awarded a high academic honor exemplifying outstanding Christian scholarship and character. The recipients for the 2025-2026 academic year are as follows:
Junior Statesman Award: Caroline Venable, 8th Grade
This honor is awarded to an 8th grade student who best exemplifies outstanding Christian character, servant-leadership and academic excellence.
“Let no one despise you for your youth, but set the believers an example in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.” ~ 1 Timothy 4:12
Noah Webster Scholar Award: Jayla Saunders, 9th Grade
This award is given to a 9th grade student who best exemplifies outstanding Christian scholarship. A scholar is one who is teachable; one who is a disciple of the Master Teacher, Jesus Christ; one who is a man or woman of books, eminent in erudition; one able to Biblically research and reason from the Word of God; one who knows the truth in the person of the Lord, Jesus Christ and has laid a foundation of all knowledge and wisdom; one whose scholarship has been fashioned in the gold of Christian character through diligence and industry; one who applies his or her scholarship for the purpose of the Gospel and its government. “Study to show thyself approved, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.” ~ 2 Timothy 2:15
Booker T. Washington Servant Award: Joe’el Torres, 10th Grade
This award is given to a 10th grade student who best exemplifies outstanding Christian servanthood. A servant is one who voluntarily attends or serves another through menial offices; one willing to make painful sacrifices in compliance with the weakness or needs of others; one, like Jesus Christ, who was willing to wash the feet of His disciples; one who serves the living God, who calls His children to serve Him in a spirit of love by ministering selflessly to others. “Whoever will be chief among you, let Him be your servant.” ~ Matthew 20:27
George Washington Steward Award: Jayden Burch, 11th Grade
This honor is given to an 11th grade student who best exemplifies outstanding Christian stewardship. A steward is one entrusted with the care and management of his or her God-given internal property and the external property in a manner reflecting the character of Christ; one capable of wisely managing and dispensing the provisions of another, one whose character and service is found trustworthy and reliable; a minister of Christ, one able to dispense the provisions of the Gospel, serving the furtherance of the Kingdom of Christ here on earth. “It is required of a steward that he be found trustworthy.” ~ I Corinthians 4:2
James Madison Statesman Award: Emily Brady, Class of 2026
This award is given to the 12th grade student who best exemplifies outstanding Christian statesmanship. A statesman is a representative of Jesus Christ, who came not to be served but to serve; one tooled in the art of self-government under God, able to wisely steward his or her God-given property—conscience, time, talent—and the property of others; one able to think and reason biblically in all areas of life, rightly dividing the Word of God; and one able to lead, by example, their own generation in a spirit of selflessness as an ambassador of Christ locally, nationally, and internationally. “Be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear.” ~ I Peter 3:15
Rosalie June Slater Literary Award: Eve Frost, Class of 2026
The Rosalie June Slater Literary Award is given to a 12th grade student whose written work exemplifies Biblical scholarship and is deemed most worthy of recognition by the high school faculty and administration.
