Hopkins Students Earn 26 Medals at COLT Poetry Recitation Contest

On April 7, 2009, 38 kids attended the 28th annual COLT poetry recitation contest at Wilbur Cross High School. 1,000 students from 100 Connecticut schools took part in the event. There are up to nine categories in each of the 15 languages, including native speaker categories in the Middle School and High School levels.

Hopkins brought home 26 medals!

Here are the results:


Ancient Greek  - Sebastian Kann  - 1st HSI

Chinese - Amy Wang - 3rd Native MS

Chinese - Sanam Rastegar - 3rd HS1

Chinese - Justin Manley - 3rd HS2

Chinese - Alex Siegenfeld - 3rd HS3

French - Isabelle Hashim - 1st MS1

French - Lulu Chua-Rubenfeld - 1st MS2

French - Kela Caldwell - 1st HS1

(French - Amy Macey - 1st HS1 Hamden Hall)

French - Ben Paltiel - 1st HS2

French - Sanam Rastegar - 2nd HS3

French - James Cumming - 1st HS4

French - Sebastian Kann  - 1st HS5-6

Italian - Michael LoPiano - 3rd HS1

Italian - Louise Newman - 2nd HS2

Italian - Michael David Mangini - 3rd HS3

Latin - Calvin Park - 2nd MS2

Latin - Elena Villareal - 3rd HS1

Latin - Kathryn Carlow - 1st HS5-6
 
Modern Greek - Nicole Pettas - 1st Native MS

Modern Greek  - Alexia Zagouras  - 2nd Native HS

Russian - Nicole Kogan - 1st Native MS

Spanish  - Harry Kane - 2nd MS2

Spanish - Max Martin - 1st Native MS

Spanish - Jay Sullivan - 1st HS2

Spanish - Clarissa Sosin - 3rd HS5-6

Spanish - Dan Rathbone - 1st Native HS

Congratulations to all!