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National Language Exams and Poetry Recitations

On Friday May 20 at assembly Sue Wineland, Modern Language Department Chair and Kate Horsley, Classics Department Chair announced that a record number of students received high scores in the National Language exams. Please see the list of those students below.

Then a collection of students recited poems in French, Spanish, Chinese, Italian, Latin and Greek. Please watch the attached videos to see the recitations.

Recitations:
Annie Nields ’17,  Le pont Mirabeau (The Mirabeau Bridge) by Guillaume Apollinaire
Lindsay Meyerson '16, Femme nue (Naked Woman) by Léopold Sédar Senghor
Ranease Brown '21, Déjeuner du Matin (Morning Breakfast)
Olivia Capasso '19, La cavalla storna, (The Dapple-Grey Mare) Giovanni Pascoli
Michael Pan ’16, 梦游天姥吟留别 (Dreaming I Roamed on TianMu Mountain) by Li Bai
Sofie Schroth-Douma '19, L'homme qui te ressemble (The Man Who Ressembles You) by René Philombe
Sara Kranzlin '19, Il gelsomino notturno (The Night Jasmine) Giovanni Pascoli
Miya Segal '19, 我要飞翔 (I want to fly) by Jiang, Zaobin
Samantha Steinberg ’17, La primavera (Springtime) Ugo Betti
Veronica Yarovinsky ’20, Anoche cuando dormía por Antonio Machado (Last Night as I Slept)
Yasmin Bergemann ’20, Mi primer Resfriado (My first sniffles)
Burton Lyng-Olsen '20, 小草 (Little Grass) by Wang, Zaohua
Noah Schmeisser '19, a selection from Ovid's Metamorphoses, from the story of Pyramus and Thisbe
Philip Geanokoplos ’16, the opening of Homer's Iliad

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National Spanish Exam:
Over 160,000 students from across the country took The National Spanish Exam this year. The following Students scoring at or above the 95th percentile a Premio de Oro – the Gold Award:

Level 01 (7th grade)
Caroline Asnes
Maya Junkins
Hannah Szabo
Isabel Melchinger

Level 1
Yasmin Bergemann
Lilliana Delise
Philip Delise
Julius Herzog
Lily Meyers
Anna Simon
Katherine Takoudes
Julia Tellides

Level 2
Elise Aslanian
Sam Burrow
Maliya Ellis
Corinne Evans
Gigi Fulginiti
Ben Goldstein
Tomás Gordon
Morgan Noonan
Nick Schoelkopf
Owen Sherman
Veronica Yarovinsky
Justin Ye
Hannah Volk
Sophia Colodner
Henry Fisher

Level 3
Isabella (Nina) Barandarian
David Darrow
Joshua Goldstein
Drew Mindell
Sasha Starovoitov
Sarah Volk
Deepak Gupta
Christiana Lano
Bruno Moscarini
Naomi Roberts
Siraj Patwa


Level 4
Madeleine Cahn
Helena Lyng-Olsen
Gwyneth Maloy
Hannah Melchinger
Kristina Yarovinsky
Samantha Dies
Lucio Moscarini
Kiernan Anderson
Emma Bucklan
Phoebe Cardenas
Alexander Kane
Neal Sarin
Phillip Schmitt
Maya Zanger-Nadis

Level 5
Allie Batter
Michael Zhou
Will Hartog
Annalise Hilts
Ethan Lester



National Italian Exam
The American Association of Italian Teachers awards a National Honorable Mention to high scoring students on the National Italian Exam. This year, two of our students in level 1, Hope Wanat and Sara Lopez, ranked second and third in the United States, and will also be receiving a money prize from AATI.

In level 1
Sarah Kranzlin
Sarah Lopez
Robert Pitkin
Hope Wanat
Ryan Viores

In level 2
Olivia Capasso
Marion Conklin
Clara Everett
Emily Lawson
Chris Sherk
Galen Smith
Gigia Speer

In level 3
Caroline Stanley
Sam Steinberg
Holden Turner

In level 4
Liz Loffredo

In level 5
Cristiana Lano

Auguri!!! Congratulations!!!!!



2016 National French Contest GRAND CONCOURS National Winners Connecticut Chapter Top 5 Ranking

Level 01A, Middle School
Gold Medal Gonzalo de la Mora, CT rank 3
Silver Medal Shizah Mangi, CT rank 4

Level 1, High School
Gold Medal Emma Cahill, CT rank  3 
Gold Medal Alexandra Dawson, CT rank  3
Gold Medal Yue Yin, CT rank  3
Gold Medal Kaitlin Forman, CT rank  4
Gold Medal Olivia Mentz, CT rank  4
Gold Medal Joshua Seidner, CT rank  4
Gold Medal Tyler Bahamonde, CT rank  5

Level 2, High School
Gold Medal Sam Jenkins, CT rank 2
Gold Medal Connor Hartigan, CT rank 3
Gold Medal Margaret Mushi, CT rank 3
Gold Medal Noah Delorme, CT rank 3
Gold Medal Juliette Glass, CT rank 3
Gold Medal Erin Ellbogen, CT rank 4
Gold Medal Naomi Tomlin, CT rank 4 
Gold Medal Madeleine Walke, CT rankr 4
Gold Medal Minjae Ko, CT rank 5

Level 3, High School
Gold Medal Hunter Congdon, CT rank 1
Gold Medal Hannah Allen, CT rank 3

Level 4, High School
Gold Medal Aaron Kogan, CT rank 1

Level 5, High School
Gold Medal Henry Hanlon, CT rank 1
Silver Medal Meghan Podolsky, CT rank 4
Silver Medal Lindsay Meyerson, CT rank 5



National Classical Etymology Exam 2015-16
 
Advanced Level
Gold: Isabelle Breier,  Madeleine Cahn
Silver: Chase Ames, Ian Magill, Andy Sedlack
Bronze:  Sanaea Bhagwagar
 
Intermediate Level
Gold: Sam Jenkins, AJ Marks, Ajay Mitra, Noah Schmeisser, Nick Schoelkopf, Ethan Silver
Silver: Kara Amar, Clare Chemery
Bronze: Helena Lyng-Olsen
 
National Greek Exam 2015-16
 
Greek 1
Clare Chemery: Green Ribbon
Rave Levine: Green Ribbon
 
Greek 2
Mack Reiferson: Blue Ribbon
William Rosenbluth:  Blue Ribbon
Karyn Bartosic: Red Ribbon
 
Greek 3
Philip Geanakoplos: Blue Ribbon
Zach Bloom: Red Ribbon
Maya Russell: Red Ribbon
Reed Kelly: Red Ribbon
David Wisdom: Green Ribbon
Damini Singh: Green Ribbon
 
 
National Latin Exam 2015-16
 
Over 154,000 students from all 50 states and 19 foreign countries participated in the NLE. At Hopkins, 227 students took the NLE,  with 178 receiving awards and recognition. Only the top scorers are named here.
 
Receiving Book awards for outstanding performance on the NLE over several years:
 
Isabelle Breier (12),  Philip Geanakoplos (12),  Sean Gao (11)
 
 
Latin 7 - Introductory Level
 
Perfect Score
Noah Stein
Ella Zuse
Tobias Leiserowitz
Tyler Forman
Chase Harrison
Caroline Asnes
Olivia Mentz
Abilgail Fossati
 
Outstanding Certificate
William McCormack
Prairie Resch
Daniel Barber
Hanna Szabo
Andela Cui
Isabel Melchinger
Gabriela Karan
Miya Segal
Mary Halvorsen
Brooklyn Brockenberry
Gonzalo de la Mora
Anushree Vashist
Madison Mettler
Sophie Sonnenfeld
John Aslanian
Ava Pfannenbecker
Fiona O’Brien
Jasmine Simmons

Certificate
Julia Kosinski
Emma Cahill
Ella Ip
Monish Kumar
Thomas Lasersohn
Jennifer Gidicsin
Maya Junkins
Nora Schmitt
Hudson Berk
Christopher Wanat
Cyrus Chemery
Juliette Henderson
Sawyer Maloney
Graham Selby
Sara Francis
Jason Chung
Eliza Barker
Anabel Burtson
Piper Melnick
Julia An
Shizah Magni
Shi Yan
John Hui
Daniel Druzhinin
Dexter Lourenco

 
Latin Level 1 exam
 
Perfect Score:
Julius Herzog
 
Summa Cum Laude - Gold medal

Evan Brander-Blackhawk
Burton Lyng-Olsen
Anna Simon
Marilla Yu
Evan Gerritz
Julia Tellides
Audrey Millar
Henry Fisher
Lily DeLise
David Judd
Veronica Yarovinsky
Yasmin Bergemann
Lily Meyers
Katherine Takoudes
Emma Regan
Josh Seidner
Khelan Parikh
Anna Zimolo
Nick Burtson
McKinley Palmieri
Sameera Fahmi
Justin Saffan
Yue Yin
Nathan Ahn
Leah Miller
Lexi Dawson
 
 
Maxima Cum Laude – Silver  medal
Arushi Srivastava
Sapphira Ching
Brian Haywood
Simon Asnes
Sara Taylor
Deniz Tek
Max Roy
Caroline Rocco
Philip DeLise
William Zhu
Aeron Horsley
Ally Wang
Kadin Zhang
Alexander Zyskowski
Emilia Aniskovich
Kate Loffredo
Alexander Schuster
Leul Abate
Juliette Glass
Ian Dailis
Alessandro Amoedo
Julianna Lukacs
Avi Shein
Lauren Gillespie
Samuel Burrow

Magna Cum Laude
Blake Harrison
Kaitlin Forman
Sophia Fitzsimonds
Javier Muleiro
Zeren Toksoy
Courtney Banks
Elizabeth Roy

 
Cum Laude
Alexis Chang
Cole Markham
Tomas Gordon
Meggie Czepiel 
 
Awards for High School Classes
 
Perfect Score
Nick Schoelkopf (9) - Latin II
Ethan Silver (9) - Latin II
 
Summa Cum Laude - Gold medal
Theodore Telides (9) – Latin II
Kenneth Lu (9) -  Latin II
Sara Amar (9) – Latin II
Corinne Evans (8) – Latin II
Madeleine Cahn (11) – Latin II
Sam Jenkins (9) – Latin II
Sanjna Bandaru (10) – Latin II
Kara Amar (9) – Latin II
William Hall (9) – Latin II
Sydney Hirsch (9) – Latin II
Cameron Michaelson (9) – Latin II
Noah Schmeisser (9) - Latin III
Christine Eberts (11) - Latin III
Kaitlyn Modzelewski (12) – Latin IV
RJ Pantalena (12)  - Latin IV
Natalie Hawley (11)  - AP Latin
Sanaea Bhagwagar (11) – AP Latin
Billy McGrath (12) – AP Latin
Sean Gao (11) – AP Latin
Isabelle Breier (12) - Honors Latin V
Ryan Abbott (12) - Honors Latin V
Oliver Eisenberg (12) - Honors Latin V
Philip Geanakoplos (12) - Honors Latin V
Sophie Cappello (12) - Honors Latin V
 

Maxima Cum Laude – Silver  meda
Josh Roy (9) – Latin II
Alex Zhang (9) – Latin II
Savid Madan (9) – Latin II
Unique Parker (10) – Latin II
Noah Thomas (9) – Latin II
Ian Magill (11) - Latin III
Neil Madhavani (10) - Latin III
Clare Chemery (9) - Latin III
Sonoe Fitzsimonds (10) – Latin III
Jamie Donovan (9) - Latin III
AJ Marks (10) – Latin III
Eamonn Smith (11) –Latin IV
Clara Merrill-Block (11) – AP Latin
Vikram Amar (11) – AP Latin
Duncan Tam (11) – AP Latin
Tara Maloney (11) – AP Latin
Alexandra Batter (11) – AP Latin
Jacob Wolfe (10) – AP Latin
Chloe Glass (11) – AP Latin
Thomas McCaffery (11) – AP Latin
Carmen Ciardiello (12) – AP Latin
Bennett Daponte-Smith (12) – Honors Latin V
Caroline Vanderlee (11) – Honors Latin  V
Shira Bedford (12) – Honors Latin V
Gabrielle Olshan-Cantin (11) – Honors Latin V
 
Magna Cum Laude
Cameron Maquat (9) – Latin II
Abigail Miller (10) - Latin III
Rachel Stefanowski (11) – Latin IV
Marcelo de la Mora (11) – AP Latin
Hannah Randazzo (11) – AP Latin
Drew Nolan (12) – AP Latin
William McLean (11) – AP Latin
Reza Bergemann (11) – AP Latin

Cum Laude
Nathaniel Nguyen (11) – Latin III
David Tsnobiladze (11) – Latin IV
Alexandra von Riesemann (12) – Honors Latin V
Andre Giglio (11) – Honors Latin V
Chase Ames (11) – Honors Latin V
 
 
 
 
 
 
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