Student Buzz

Gilman’s indoor track and field team clinched the first conference title of the winter season on Friday, January 9 by placing second in the third MIAA Conference Group Meet with 119 points. This result, when coupled with the Hounds’ performance in the two previous group meets where they placed first and second respectively, gave the team the regular season title.

Matthew Chi '26 was named as first author on a poster presentation at the American Society for Gravitational and Space Research in Phoenix, Arizona, in early December.

Congratulations to the students who were selected for the 2026 All State Ensembles, including Junior and Senior Bands, Junior and Senior Mixed Choruses, and Junior and Senior Orchestras.

Congratulations to the athletes who were named to the All-MIAA Conference for exceptional performance during the fall 2025 season.

Congratulations to the CyberHounds, the seventh grade robotics team that won first place at the Battle by the Bay competition in December. The team received praise from a judge who said that its presentation and innovative project were among the best he had seen.

Middle School students from the Model UN Club took home 10 awards from the Maryland International School's Model UN Conference on Friday, December 5, 2025, where they engaged in lively debates, round-robin discussions, and caucuses and contributed to drafting whole-committee resolutions.

A team of fourth and fifth graders took first place at the Mid-Atlantic K–12 Chess Championship in the U400 Beginner Division. Additionally, a Gilman eighth grader placed sixth in the Mid-Atlantic region.

Grayson Bess ’29 and his team came in first place at the STEM CEO Challenge through Morgan State University Earl Graves School of Business and Management. The competition allows students to step into the role of CEO of a major tech company and learn foundational principles of commercial real estate.

It was a great day to be a Greyhound in the pool on Saturday, November 1, 2025. Both the Varsity and JV teams captured MIAA titles in front of an energetic crowd at the Loyola University Aquatics Center. Varsity secured a 17-9 win over Calvert Hall to finish undefeated in MIAA Conference play, while JV earned a 13-9 win over Loyola to avenge their two regular-season defeats to the Dons.

Congratulations to Ajax S. '30 who took first place in the 16 and under division of the 5K in the 2025 Baltimore Running Festival. With an impressive time of 17:21, Ajax joins the ranks of the region’s top high school runners

The Gilman community celebrated the newest members of the Cum Laude Society for the 2025–2026 school year in Upper School assembly on October 13 and in a reception with their families on October 14.

Gilman varsity water polo is in hot pursuit of its third MIAA title in four years. The Greyhounds are currently undefeated in conference play (and 15-2 on the season), having taken down four of their league foes: Calvert Hall College, Archbishop Spalding, Loyola Blakefield, and McDonogh.

Nikhil Gupta ’26 first became curious about music and theater when then Middle School music teacher Liz Beckman encouraged him to audition for the eighth grade musical at Roland Park Country School. A few years later, just before senior year, he performed as the male lead in a musical at The Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Scotland.

Eight members of the Class of 2026 have been named National Merit Semifinalists! Congratulations to: Matthew Chi, Mateo Garza, Nikhil Gupta, Randy Liu, John Mashaw, Dylan Moyar, Max Shein, Kevin Zheng. Gilman has historically had more students qualify for and be selected for recognition on this prestigious list than its area peer schools. 

Two Gilman students competed at the AAU Junior Olympics in Houston, Texas, in late July. Luca Mulligan '27 placed 8th overall, winning the discus event, setting four personal bests, and earning an All-American title. Joshua J. '33 earned All-American in three events with a national championship in the long jump.

Rising seniors Rik Chaudhuri ’26 and Jeffrey Hu ’26, debating about the benefits and harms of presidential executive orders, placed among the top 25% at the National Speech and Debate Association competition in June.

After being a research intern in a Johns Hopkins kidney disease lab from December 2023 to August 2024, Pranav Parikh ’25 presented at the American Society of Nephrology (ASN) Kidney Week Conference in San Diego, California, considered to be the world’s premier nephrology conference. 

Joshua Turner '26 was recently named the winner of the 2025 Congressional Art Contest for Maryland’s Second District for his oil painting titled “Velma.” The piece will be displayed in the U.S. Capitol complex for one year.

While working at Johns Hopkins BioBank over the summer of 2024, Tyler Olson ’25 developed an indicator device to ensure biospecimen samples remain at the correct temperature while out of the freezer. In November, he presented at a conference in Florida.