World Language Awards

Results are in for EGHS students who participated in the National Latin and National Spanish Exams. You can also view the winners of the National French Exam here. 

Congratulations to those who ranked nationally on the National Latin Exam, which is given not only in the United States, but in Canada and Australia as well.  The test is a random 30 questions on grammar, vocabulary, history, culture, derivatives, and mythology along with 10 questions based on an authentic Latin text, never seen before by the student.  The following students received awards this year. 

Gold Summa cum laude

Latin II

Eva Lindquist (Freshman)

Silver medal and a certificate of maxima cum laude-

Latin I

Michael Kowalski (Freshman)

Latin II

Samantha Rodriguez  (sophomore)

 Latin III

Gauri Ganesh  (Junior)

Certificate of magna cum laude-  

Latin II

Harrison Timperle (Sophomore)

Latin IV prose

Heather Shen (junior)

Certificate of cum laude- 

Latin II

Isabella Cataldo (Sophomore)

Margaret Rodriguez (Freshman)

Matthew Dresselhouse (Sophomore)

Evan Carpenter (Sophomore)

Daniel Depetro (Sophomore)

Olivia Wiggins (Junior) 

Latin III

Zoe Hinman (Sophomore)

The National Spanish Exam was administered online to more than 125,000 students throughout the United States. The first week of April at our school we had over 100 students taking the exam. This exam measures proficiency and achievement of students studying Spanish. This year students who scored from the 50^th to the 74^th percentile received an honorable mention. Those scoring from the 75^th through the 84^th percentile receive a Bronze Prize, those scoring from the 85^th through the 94^th percentile receive a Silver Prize and those scoring at or above the 95^th percentile are awarded a Gold Prize.

I           Alice Palmer                            Plata    (senior) 93 percentile

Garrett Elderkin                       Honor (Freshman) 71 percentile

            Soleil Pierre                             Honor (Freshman) 58 percentile

            Austin Andrade                       Honor (Sophomore) 52 percentile

II          Lauren Trapani                        Oro (Freshman) 97 percentile

            Jeremy Bernard-Sasges           Plata (Freshman) 91 percentile

            Rebecca Yant                          Bronce (Freshman) 81 percentile

            Caroline Preston                      Bronce (Freshman) 75 percentile

            Kathleen Swanson                   Bronce (Freshman) 80 percentile

            Giulio Cataldo                          Honor (Freshman) 65 percentile

            Romina Garakani                     Honor (Freshman) 53 percentile

Zane Yu                                  Honor (Freshman) 66 percentile

            Nicole LeBlanc                        Honor (Junior) 52 percentile

            Grace Webb                            Honor (Sophomore) 54 percentile

            Sara Basler                              Honor (Freshman) 61 percentile

            Madison Kalk                          Honor (Freshman) 71 percentile

            Rachel Latham                         Honor (Freshman) 63 percentile

    

III        Katherine Streich                     Orp (sophomore) 99 percentile

Catherine Karbasiafshar           Bronce (sophomore) 77 percentile

Keira Meiser                           Bronce (sophomore) 80 percentile

            Brian Egan                               Honor (junior) 66 percentile

            Mihgye Wu                              Honor (sophomore) 65 percentile

            Hannah Anderson                    Honor (junior) 54 percentile

Emily Ferguson                        Honor (sophomore) 64 percentile

Jaclyn Sidman                          Honor (sophomore) 61 percentile

Lauren Teixera                         Honor (sophomore) 51 percentile

IV        Jeremy Pallant                        Plata (junior) 85 percentile

Anthony Bernard-Sasges        Plata (junior) 87 percentile #2 in RI outside experience

Andres Naranjo                     Bronce (freshman) 75 percentile #2 in RI Bilingual

            Courtney Kalk                       Bronce (junior) 81 percentile

            Samuel Badeau                      Honor (junior) 52 percentile

            Eleanor Bodell-Kudla            Honor (junior) 73 percentile

            Roman Drozdowski               Honor (junior) 52 percentile

            Rachel Gammons                   Honor (junior) 70 percentile

Eddy Luo                               Honor (junior) 63 percentile

Shiv Patel                               Honor (junior) 53 percentile

Garett Scanlon                       Honor (junior) 57 percentile

Michelle Xiong                       Honor (junior) 64 percentile

Bennett Lallo                          Honor (junior) 50 percentile

Jesse Zhan                             Honor (junior) 51 percentile

           

V         Elizabeth Ng                           Plata    (junior) 88 percentile #1 in RI Bilingual

            Isabella Despirito                    Bronce (senior) 76 percentile

            Daniel Strauss                         Honor (senior) 52 percentile