Modern Language & Classics Awards & Recitations

At assembly on Friday, May 2, the Modern Language and Classics Departments announced that many students have earned high honors on their national language exams this year. Chris Maharidge, Classics Dept. Chair, and Evelyn Montanez, Modern Language Interim Dept. Chair, led the announcement and introduced the student recitations. Please see the list of student achievements below.  

Over 140,000 students from all 50 states and 20 foreign countries participated in the 2025 NLE. 

At Hopkins, 199 students took the exam, with 136 receiving awards and recognition, including 52 Summa Cum Laude gold medal winners. Listed below are the names of our Summa Cum Laude/Gold Medal winners: 

Jinghan Lu

Natalie Tolchin

Maki Shinohara

Down Boatright

Anushi Gandhi-Zadeh

Solomon Polak

Tiago Fernandes

Katelyn Kim

Alice Neitzke

Sarah Li

Yugyeom Jang

Riley Belcher

Lucy Kavanaugh

Rohin Turaga

Ellie Luo

Elaine Zhou

Isaac Kim

Winston Olenchock

Christina Feng

William Jang

Michael Batsu

Oliver Tsao

Margot Beckerlegge

Rohee Chae

Matthew Vinci

Isaac Lin

Briar Scannell

Felix Wang

Milan Chiravuri

Youyi Zhang

Aidan Ke

Bella Maisano

Mohsen Ahmed

Elisa Dimiceli

Donovan Skrip

Ailene Lee

Luke Wargo

Amaya Flores-Montero

Jane Liu

Rueben Gitelman

Caryn Kim

Matthew Weng

Audrey Wang

Lukas Roberts

Kiara Volkwein

Lewis Meyers

Ashvin van Bladel

Lucas Ragaza

Kyle Abrahamsen

Livia Liu

Claire Billings

Kyle Zhang

The competition was fierce, with over 400 participants from across the state of Connecticut. Out of the 29 students from our school who took part, 16 achieved earned placements in the bronze, silver, and gold ranks.

Heritage-HS - Qamar Al-Tameemi - Bronze

HS-2 - Luannie Wang - Gold

Heritage - HS - Ananya Biederer - Bronze

Heritage - JS - Advitia Maheshwari - Gold

HS-1 - Isha Seth - Bronze

HS-1 - Lina Elwood - Bronze

HS-2 - Matthew Palsa - Gold

HS-3 - Marcus Rosario - Gold

HS-4 - Annika Aslanian - Gold

HS-5-6 Aoife Flanagan - Bronze

Heritage - JS -  Aurora Aden - Silver

HS-3 - Ivy Lewis - Gold

HS-4 - Oren Arbisman - Silver

Heritage HS - Alan Ziqi Xu - Gold

Heritage - HS - Mateus Witczak - Silver

HS-2 - Kenzy Abdalla - Bronze

Julia Van Der Aue

Emelyn Gray

Junzhe Sang

Benjamin Kruger

Ivy Lewis

Chloe Wang

Andrew Keisman

Andre Sun

Alyson Henderson

Nia McKeithen

Jingheng Lu

 The 21st National CLASS Essay Contest

Jane Liu

Catherine Pennington

Sophia Sekhon

Jayden Wang

Elodie Lewis

Emi Onorato

Aurora Chevalier

Alex Grant

Sarah Galvani-Townsend

Yuki Heeger

Henry Schlag

Sophia dos Santos

Theodore Friedman

Anna Laganovska

Molly Powers

Lexi Schneider

Emily Shaw

Winter Szarabajka

Vidwan Aryan

Bar Avraham

Hana Beauregard

Lucas Downes

Joy Kim

Aniseh Siewert

Teddy Sklar

Level 5 AP: Yuki Heeger, Sarah Galvani-Townsend

Level 3: Aurora Chevalier, Alex Grant, Henry Schlag

Over 5,000 students took the National Italian Exam this year.

Top Achiever Award - For students in the 99-100 percentile

High Performer Award - For students in the 98 percentile

Lina Elwood (Top Achiever, Money Prize)

Oliver Law (Top Achiever, Money Prize)

Valentia Cassella

Eric Low

Owen Gisby

Livia Balkan (Top Achiever, Money Prize)

Amanda Myott (High Performer)

Molly Calderone (High Performer)

Susie Becker

Kelsey Reichart

Noa Gries

Annie Zhang

Matthew Palsa

Eliza Chapin

Evan Galvani-Townsend

Noa Gries

Daniel Sobel

Henry Weinstein (Top Achiever, Money Prize)

Ilana Lewitton

Marcus Rosario

Gemma Iaccarino

Ryann Holden

Julia DiMiceli

Violet Wich

Annika Aslanian

Marcus Rosario ‘26

Henry Weinstein ‘26

Ilana Lewitton '26

Ryann Holden '26

Jayda Robik '26

Gemma Iaccarino '26

Susie Becker ‘28

Molly Calderone ‘27

Eliza Chapin ‘28

Noa Gries ‘27

Amanda Myott ‘27

Matthew Palsa ‘27

Kelsey Reichart ‘27

Anna Zhang ‘27

Mia Callot

Izzy Bricker