Hopkins at the COLT Poetry Contest

On April 26, several Hopkins students competed against over 500 students from all over the state in the 37th Annual COLT Poetry Contest, sponsored by the CT Council of Language Teachers (COLT).  This year the contest was held at Southington High School.

We’d like to recognize all of the Hopkins students who were chosen to go, and also congratulate the following students who won gold, silver and bronze medals.  Bravi!, ¡Fabuloso!, 真棒!, Felicitationes!

These are the Poetry reciter winners:

Chinese
MS2 - Jade Aprile, 2nd place
HS1 - Alexandra Dawson, 2nd place
HS3 - Lizabeth Bamgboye, 1st place
HS4 - Sophie Sonnenfeld, 1st place
Heritage MS - Hongyi Yan, 2nd place
Heritage HS9-10 - Victoria Ye, 1st place
Heritage HS11-12 - Emily Ruan, 1st place

French
MS1- Olanma Ikekpeazu, 2nd place
HS2 - Cyrus Sadeghi, 2nd place
HS3 - Ranease Brown, 3rd place

Italian
HS2 - Justin Saffan, 1st place
HS3 - Sarah Lopez, 3rd place
HS4 - Ryan Viores, 1st place
Heritage HS11-12 - Emilia Cottignoli, 2nd place

Spanish
HS2 - Hannah Szabo, 1st place
HS3 - Zaryah Gordon, 1st place
HS11-12 - Emilia Cottignoli, 1st place

Russian
Heritage HS9-10 - Veronica Yarovinsky, 1st place