All-Star Awards

• Native Pride: Honors Native and Indigenous students who demonstrate leadership grounded in cultural pride, resilience, and responsibility to community. This award recognizes students who honor their traditions and identity while contributing meaningfully to their schools through advocacy, wisdom, and care for others.
• Sí Se Puede: Recognizes students of Latinx heritage whose perseverance, courage, and advocacy embody the spirit of Sí Se Puede. This award celebrates students who uplift others, pursue their goals with determination, and contribute to their school and community through leadership, service, and collective strength.
• Young, Gifted and Black Diaspora: Celebrates Black students whose excellence, creativity, and leadership reflect brilliance in action. This award honors students who demonstrate integrity, resilience, and a commitment to justice, using their gifts to uplift their communities and inspire positive change.
• Asian American Excellence: Honors Asian American students whose leadership, service, and cultural contributions strengthen their schools and communities. This award recognizes students who affirm identity and belonging, elevate representation, and lead with purpose, empathy, and pride.
• Pacific Pride: Celebrates Pacific Islander students whose leadership, cultural knowledge, and community-mindedness enrich their school environments. This award honors students who lead with humility, resilience, and pride, uplifting their communities while honoring ancestral connections and collective values.
• New Portlanders: Recognizes students who are newcomers to Portland, including immigrant and refugee students, whose courage, adaptability, and determination inspire their school communities. This award honors students who navigate new environments with resilience, contribute their voices and experiences, and help build inclusive and welcoming school communities.
• Community Champions: Recognizes students of any background that demonstrate leafership through their ability to advocate for equity, challange discrimination and tacle systematic inequalities to imprve the quality of life for historically marginalized people within their school communities.

This evening will bring together students, families, educators, and community members for one of PPS’s most joyful and inclusive celebrations of student excellence.

The All-Star Awards is organized by Siyat Mohamed (smohamed5@pps.net). 

Please reach out to Siyat if you have any questions.