Latin and Greek Awards
5/10/10
Many Hopkins Students recently took the National Greek and Latin Exams, as well as competed in the COLT Poetry contest and the CT State Latin Day. Read on to read about the awards received by these students.
NATIONAL GREEK EXAM
 
Intermediate Attic Exam:  272 students took this test nationally, only 75 got this (3rd place) distinction:
Green Ribbon – Merit award
Emilia Hernandez
Greg Schaefer
Adam Hallet
Sara Arthurs
 
 
NATIONAL LATIN EXAM
 
221 students in grades 7-12 took the National Latin Exam
151 won awards
 
44 in Grade 7 won awards
            31 Outstanding Scores (37-40)
            13 Achievement Scores (35-36)
 
107 in Grades 8-12 won awards
            43 Summa cum Laude (Gold medals)
            24 Maxima cum Laude (Silver medals)
            21 Magna cum Laude
            19 cum Laude
 
Perfect Scores in Junior School – Only 797 students internationally (out of 18,800) earned a perfect score

Grade 7
Sam Berry
Cecilia Crews
Bridget Donovan
Sophie Liebergall
 
Grade 8
Theo Wuest
Cami Jetta
 
Highest Scores in each level of High School Latin
 
Jack McLean
Robbie Emmet
Sophia Chua-Rubenfeld
 
Hillary Trumbull --  4/5 gold medals – Oxford Classical Dictionary
Leon Wang--  4/5 gold medals – Oxford Classical Dictionary

COLT POETRY CONTEST
 
Ancient Greek HS 2 – Greg Schaefer 1st
Latin HS 1 – Hannah Krystal 2nd
Latin HS 4 – Sophia Chua Rubenfeld 1st
 

Connecticut State Latin Day  (8th and 9th graders)
 
For Academic Contests
Grammar– Griffin Showglow-Rubenstein, Summa Cum Laude
History and Civilization – Lauren Ross, Summa Cum Laude
Mythology – Cami Jetta, Cum Laude
Authors and Literature – Griffin Smilow, Summa Cum Laude
 
For Projects:
1st place Mosaic - Taegan Williams
1st place Scrapbook - Abigail Soloway
2nd place Models/Warfare - Griffin Smilow
2nd place Models/other - Miela Mayer
2nd Place Photography - Alisa Pasichnik
3rd Place Teaching Display - Joshua Tobin