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Classics and Modern Language Awards
On Friday May 10, Kate Horsley, Head of the Classics Department, and Sue Wineland, Head of the Modern Language Department, announced the students who were awarded for high scores in recent national language exams and poetry competitions.
On Friday May 10, Kate Horsley, Head of the Classics Department, and Sue Wineland, Head of the Modern Language Department, announced the students who were awarded for high scores in recent national language exams and poetry competitions. After the student achievements were recognized, several students who participated in the CT COLT Poetry Contest recited their poems to assembly
Watch the attached videos to hear the many Hopkins students who were honored, or read the lists below.
Presented by Kate Horsley:
NATIONAL Classical Etymology EXAM
Advanced Level (Grades 11 & 12)
Gold: Aliyah Bixby-Driesen, Yerin Kim, Gleeson Ryan, Thomas Sargent, Max Ying
Silver: Hannah Krystal, Griffin Shoglow-Rubenstein
Bronze: Jack McLean, Dan Brodkin
Intermediate Level (Grades 9 & 10)
Gold: Isabelle Breier, Rose Etzel, Allison Hellman, Emilia Miller
Bronze: Fiona Drenttel
NATIONAL GREEK EXAM
Introductory Attic
7 awards Philip Geanakoplos Blue Ribbon – Highest award
Red ribbon: Jordan Allen, Reed Kelly, Emmi Strange
Green Ribbon: David Wisdom, Maya Russell, Damini Singh
NATIONAL LATIN EXAM
140,000 students participated world-wide, 212 Hopkins students in grades 7-12 took the National Latin Exam and 170 won awards:
50 in Grade 7 won awards (out of 40 points)
3 Perfect Score (40)
29 Outstanding Scores (36-39)
18 Achievement Scores (32-35)
119 in Grades 8-12 won awards
44 Summa cum Laude (Gold medals)
32 Maxima cum Laude (Silver medals)
28 Magna cum Laude
15 cum Laude
Perfect Scores in Junior School
Grade 7: Ajay Mitra, Kristina Yarovinsky, Sarah Zhao
Grade 8: Lucy Hanson, Michael Zhu, Thomas Bordeaux
Highest Scores in each level of High School Latin
Level 1: Allison Weiss
Level 2: Isabelle Breier, Ryan Abbott
Level 3: Allison Hellman
Level 4: Hannah Krystal, Max Bloom (perfect scores)
Level 5: Gordon Driscoll
Winning a book prize:
Max Bloom, Avi Mahajan, Thomas Sargent Hannah Krystal, Gordon Driscoll (and scholarship opportunity)
Presented by Sue Wineland:
Grand Concours – National French Contest 2013
Top 5 place scorers in CT and nationally
Hopkins French students took the National French Exam on March 14th. Nationwide, over 100,000 students took this test. I’m going to read the names of those students who earned very high scores – in the top five ranking places at the state or national level.
Level 01 (7th graders) Olivier Kibbey
Level 1: Charlie Blair, Max Kargin, Eric Kong, Arman Mitra Aaron Kogan, Grace Kortum, Lucy Hanson Clara Merrill, Willaim Rosenbluth, Sarah Zhao, Thomas Bordeuux, Billy Gorman, Matthew Leone David Tsnobiladze, Bryan Gu, Tyler Haywood, Zoe Sernyak
Level 2: Grant Moberg, Chloe Glass, Stéphanie Gidicsin, Emily Wang, Emma Deshpande, Alexander Florian Lindsay Meyerson, Davika Das, Gabriel Goodspeed, Mehgan Podolsky, Michael Bass
Level 3: Matt Dailis, Ben Koleske, Matthjiss van Mierlo, Sam Berry, Henry Hanlon
Level 4: Tongil Ko, Dalhia Leffell
Level 5: Evan Carlson, Gleeson Ryan
National Spanish Exam 2013
Gold winners are those students who scored at or above the 95th percentile
Our Spanish students took the online National Spanish Exam during the first two weeks of April. Over 150 thousand students took the exam. While there were many medal winners, I’m going to name the gold medal winners – those students who scored at or about the 95th percentile.
Our Spanish students took the online National Spanish Exam during the first two weeks of April. Over 150 thousand students took the exam. While there were many medal winners, I’m going to name the gold medal winners – those students who scored at or about the 95th percentile.
Level 01 (7th graders)
Neil Madhavani and Katrina Tiktinsky
Level 1
Will Hartog, Alex Kane, Helena Lyng Olsen, Hannah Melchinger, Kristina Yarovinsky
Rachel Lewis, Gwyneth Maloy, Panayotis Basimakopoulos , Sean Gao
Eli Sabin, Philip Schmitt, Natalie Hawley
Level 2
Alex Burdo, Kami Chin, Rica Generoso, Ruth Tomlin, Michael Zhou, Lisanne deGroot, Annalise Hilts, Gillian Burns, Simon Ghebreyesus
Level 3
Anna Ayres-Brown, Sanjay Dureseti, Matthew Erodici, Rose Etzel,
Allison Hellman, Rachel Kaufman, Karina Korsh, Jessica Larken-Wells, James Murray, Daniel Pollak
Davey Proctor, Gleeson Ryan, Abilgail Skalka, and Hannah Xu
Level 4
Angus McMullen , Lauren Mitchell, Nathaniel Peters , Griffin Shoglow-Rubenstein
Theo Wuest, Kyra Post, and Natalia Schultz
Level 5
Robert Chu, Daniel McCabe, Calvin Park, Samuel Weinreb, Jonathan Kluger
Maeve Serino, and Abigail SolowayCT COLT POETRY RECITATION CONTEST
Chinese
HS 2 Bret Stepanek 1st
HS 3 Joshua Felizardo 1st
HS 5-6 Molly Bodurtha 1st
Heritage HS Shihan (Sarah) Wang 2nd
French
HS 3 Matt Dailis 2nd
HS 4 Isabelle Hashim 1st
HS 5-6 Gleeson Ryan 1st
Italian
HS 1 Peter Tiktinsky 1st
HS 3 JenCorradi 1st
HS 4 Lucy Balcezak 1st
HS 5-6 Ben Capasso 1st
Russian
Heritage HS Maksym Kargin 3rd
Heritage HS Maksym Kargin 3rd
Spanish
MS 1 Anna Mindell 3rd
MS 2 Will Hartog 3rd
Heritage MS Hannah Melchinger 3rd
HS 4 Meera Dhodapkar 2nd
HS 5-6 Saiyara Fahmi 2nd
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