Watch the 66th annual Miami Herald/el Nuevo Herald Silver Knight Awards
The 66th annual Miami Herald/el Nuevo Herald Silver Knight Awards will be held live at 7 p.m. Wednesday to recognize the remarkable achievements of high school seniors in Miami-Dade and Broward counties.
This year’s ceremony, at the James L. Knight Center in downtown Miami, includes 788 students who were nominated from 77 Miami-Dade and 29 Broward public, charter and private schools.
The students are judged by professionals in 15 disciplines: art, athletics, business, digital and interactive media, drama, English & literature, general scholarship, journalism, mathematics, music & dance, science, social science, speech, vocational technical 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 Wednesday evening.
The winners will receive a $2,000 scholarship from the Herald Charities Foundation, in addition to 25,000 AmericanAdvantage miles, good for one round-trip ticket in the continental U.S., courtesy of American Airlines. They will also receive a medallion and the Silver Knight statue. The Honorable Mentions receive a $500 scholarship and an engraved plaque.
How to watch the live broadcast
The event will be broadcast on the Miami Herald’s YouTube page and Facebook page and on MiamiHerald.com. To watch a livestream of the ceremony, refresh those pages at 7 p.m. Wednesday when the event begins.
Famous Silver Knights
Previous Silver Knight winners have included Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who received the Silver Knight in Science in 1982 while representing Palmetto High, and Ted Hendricks, a former UM standout and NFL Hall of Famer who earned the Silver Knight in Athletics for Hialeah High in 1965.
The newest U.S. Supreme Court justice, Ketanji Brown Jackson, won an Honorable Mention in Drama as a Palmetto High senior in 1988.
Since the first class was nominated in 1959, nearly 1,500 students have received Silver Knight Awards.
