Stephen Tatarkov, Bluffton High School junior, is the April BHS student of the month. At Bluffton he is a member of the high school math club. He has a 4.0 grade point average.

He participates on an indoor soccer team. He is a three-year letterman for soccer and a two-year letterman for track. He received the All-District and All-Ohio award in soccer. He was the Honda Mathematics Gold Medal Award Winner.

In post-secondary, Stephen has taken American Political Process at Bluffton University and is planning on taking Introduction To Politics as well as Calculus I and II next year.

He plans on attending Ohio Northern University or Case Western Reserve University to study Chemical or Mechanical Engineering when he graduates in 2014.

He is the son of Andrey and Svetlana Tatarkov of Bluffton.