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Itzel Luna, class of 2021, has won Stanford’s Daniel Pearl Memorial Intern Award for this summer's program. The Daniel Pearl Memorial Journalism Internship is a paid internship awarded annually to an outstanding Stanford student journalist. The internship itself is in a foreign bureau of the Wall Street Journal and the memorial Fund provides a $6,000 stipend to cover travel costs and other expenses associated with the internship.

Maggie Simonyan won this award which acknowledges and celebrates the contributions of youth and young adults (aged 15+) who have committed themselves to the expansion of a sustainable and broad vision of Robesonian social justice. This award is specifically given to high school and college/adults who have made a commitment to social justice and shown promise in art, athletics and activism.

Alan Ruiz has won the Hispanic Heritage Foundation Youth Award. This program honors Latinx high school seniors who excel in the classroom, community and for their excellence in various categories. This year, over 30,000 accounts were created for the Youth Awards. From those, three students were selected for each category in 10 different regions across the country. Each Youth Awardee becomes part of the broader HHF network of 200,000+ professionals and fulfill a unique cycle of leadership where they meet America’s priorities in the classroom and workforce

In 2023 Satenik Ayrapetyan won the Warren Christopher Scholarship from the LAUSD. This is a $20,000 college scholarship offered to 10th grade students in the Los Angeles Unified School District, who demonstrate academic excellence, a commitment to community service and ability to overcome tribulations.

Margarita "Maggie" Simonyan has won the Hamilton Scholars Award. The Hamilton Award recognizes young people for their academic, personal, service and entrepreneurial accomplishments; forty students across the nation are selected annually as winners of the Hamilton Award and subsequently enrolled in AHS’ five-year Empowerment Program.