National Language Exam Awards and Recitations

On Friday May 19 at assembly Tilden Daniels, Modern Language Department Chair and Miguel Pizarro, 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.

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

Seventh graders Josephine Aiken and Zachary Bleil earned perfect scores in the Intro Exam.

Level 1
Caroline Asnes
Eliza Barker
Emma Cahill
Sophie Cassarino
Angela Cui
Gonzalo de la Mora
Mary Halvorsen
Chase Harrison
Tommy Lasersohn
William McCormack
Olivia Mentz
Isabel Melchinger
Ava Pfannenbecker
Nora Schmitt
Yan Shi
Noah Stein
Hanna Szabo
Anushree Vashist
Ella Zuse

Level 2
Cyrus Chemery
Alexandra Dawson
Philip Delise
Julius Herzog
Emma Regan
Caroline Rocco
Alexander Schuster
Kyle Shin
Zeren Toksoy

Level 3
Kara Amar
Sara Amar
Madeleine Cahn
Nicholas Schoelkopf
Ethan Silver

Level 4
Clare Chemery
Ian Magill
Andrew Marks
Ajay Mitra
Noah Schmeisser

Language Special Honors:

In French, Gonzalo Santiago de la Mora scored over 95% on Le Premier Prix du Grand Concours 2017, level 2, earning him a Platinum Medal.

In Spanish, Caroline Asnes earned a perfect score on the 2017 National Spanish Exam, level 1.

In Italian, we had 3 top scorers nationwide. These students will be receiving a money prize from the American Association of Teachers of Italian. These are: In Italian 2, 3rd place to Sara Lopez; in Italian 3, 4th place to Marion Conklin, and in AP Italian, 3rd place to Holden Turner.

National French Exam Gold Medal Winners

7th Grade:
Charles Wang

Level 1
Hamza Islam
Tyler Forman
Shizah Mangi
Jasmine SImmons

Level 2
Kyle Shin
Lexi Dawson
Josh Seidner
Courtney Culver
Kaitlin Forman
Gonzalo Santiago de la Mora (Platinum Winner)

Level 3
Connor Hartigan
Adwith Mukherjee
Margaret Mushi
Juliette Glass
Isabelle Alarcon
Minjae Ko

Level 4
Conal Mueller
Jonah Norwitt
Abigail Chow
Yoony Kim
Yoseph Kim
Michelle Medina

Level 5
Aaron Kogan

7th Grade
Orly Baum
Maria Cusick
Haniya Farooq
Eesha Rao

Level 1
Caroline Asnes (Perfect Score)
Evan Alfandre
John Aslanlian
Eva Brander Blackhawk
Ryan Caine
Mei Han
Gabriela Karlan
Prairie Resch
Hannah Szabo
Anushree Vashist

Level 2
Lady-Karen Asamoah
Zaryah Gordon
Sarah Roberts
Javier Muleiro (bilingual)
Zach Blake
Lily Meyers
Owen Smyth

Level 3
Kara Amar
Elise Aslanian
Lucas Biran
Sophia Colodner
Jonhatan DeLeon
Jack Dove
Maliya Ellis
Corinne Evans
Henry Fisher
Gigi Fulginiti
Ben Goldstein
Zubin Kenkare
Sid Lewis-Hayre
Morgan Noonan
Connor Pignatelo
Owen Sherman
Noah Slager
Noah Sobel-Lewin
Joseph Stauff (JR)
Hannah Stelben
Isabel Vlahakis
Ben Washburne
Veronica Yarovinsky
Justin Ye

Level 4
Joshua Goldstein
Deepak Gupta
Bruno Moscarini
Siraj Patwa
Alexandra (Sasha) Starovoitov
Mark Xu

Level 5
Madeleine Cahn
Phoebe Cardenas
Samantha Dies
Alexander Kane
Helena Lyng-Olsen
Drew Mindell
Lucio Moscarini
Zev Rosen
Elijah Sabin
Neal Sarin
Phillip Schmitt

National Italian Exam
5,465 students took the National Italian Exam, and these scored in the top 10% nationwide.

Level 1
Carly Slager
Lexi Zyskowski

Level 2
Aaron Kleeman
Sarah Kranzlin
Robert Pitkin
Sara Lopez (3rd place)
Ryan Viores
Hope Wanat

Level 3
John Blumenthal
Emily Calderone
Marion Conklin (4th place)
Clara Everett
Chris Sherk
Galen Smith
Gigi Speer

Level 4
Samantha Steinberg
Holden Turner (3rd place)