On Friday, May 19 the Modern Language and Classics departments offered an assembly celebrating languages at Hopkins. Students recited poems from their course of study, and faculty from each department announced the many Hopkins students who earned high honors on their national language exams. Watch the full assembly in the video above.
Congratulations to all our award winners!
Classics Recognition: Over 139,000 students from all 50 states and 20 foreign countries participated in the National Latin Exam. At Hopkins, 199 students took the exam, with 136 receiving awards and recognition. Only the top scorers are named here.
7th graders earned Gold Medals (summa cum laude) on the Introduction to Latin Exam:
Susanna Becker (a perfect score)
Olivia Wang
John O’Connell
Henry Russell
Emi Onorato
Latin IB /Latin 1 students earned Gold Medals (summa cum laude) on the Beginning Latin Exam:
Rueben Gitelman (perfect score)
Thomas Pittard
Linnea Woolbert
Jacob Richards
Matthew Weng
Walker Stollenwerck
Calder Resch
Miles Liao
Vivian Zhong
Summa cum Laude Gold Medal winners in our High School level classes:
Ashvin van Bladel
Livia Liu
Cora Turk-Thomas
Aerin O’Brien
Zane Bourne
Lucas Ragaza
Maggie Willey
Jose Walters
Kyle Zhang (perfect score)
Henry Tanner
Claire Billings
Liam Lochridge
Lucas Scheps
Annika P. '28 recited from Catullus #5
Anoa D. '28 and Luannie W. '28 recited a selection from the Aeneid by Vergil.
Modern Language Recognition:
COLT Poetry Contest Gold Winners:
Qamar Al-Tameemi - Arabic/Spanish
Kornsiripatchara Damrongrat - Chinese
Christopher Dwa - Chinese
Brennen Catino - Chinese
Thomas Sang - Chinese
Emma Yan - Chinese
Andrew Constantine - French
Isha Seth - Hindi/Spanish
Julia DiMiceli - Italian
Tosca ffrench - Italian
MaryKate Myott - Italian
Nora Brock - Spanish
Matthew Segal - Spanish
National Chinese Honors Society
爱学 Axel Fine
伯乔 Jonathan Brooks
任子乐 Silas Resch
柯派斯 Price Connelly
施舒淇 Suki Sze
郭瑞怡 Marilee Ganter
李海歌 Angelina Li
熊海伦 Helen Xiong
严琳 Emma Yan
孙艾薇 Ivy Sun
唐思娜 Swarna Navaratnam-Tomayko
The 19th National CLASS Chinese Essay Contest (gold winners)
Angela Zeng
Alan Xu
Junzhe (Thomas)Sang
Dylan Whang
Angelina Li
Ivy Sun
Vivian Wang
Chance by Xu Zhimo, recited by Nunia D.
Nostalgia by Yu Guangzhong, recited by Nia M.
National French Exam
Level 1
Luannie Wang
Sophia Dossantos
Henry Schlag
Anvi Pathak
Aurora Chevalier
Anna Laganovska
Level 3
Theo Friedman
Sarah Galvani-Townsend
Yuki Heeger
Martina Ponce
Teddy Witt
Annabel Zuse
Level 4
Max Gagliardi
Level 5
Arin Bhandari
Amalia Tuchmann
The 17th French AATF CT Tom Betts Senior Prize - Amalia Tuchmann ‘23
La Maison de l’Escargot by Paul Savatier, recited by Lilo G.
L'été by Jean-Claude BRINETTE, recited by Arielle R. & Andy C.
National Italian Exam
Level 1
Gemma Iaccarino
Level 2
Annika Aslanian
Julia DiMiceli
Tosca ffrench
Aoife Flanagan
Violet Wich
Annabel Zuse
Level 3
Sophia Klatell
Rik Munshi
Alana Palmer
Giovanna Parnoff
Claire Roberts
Italian National Honor Society
Luca Angelini
Claire Banks
Olivia DeGregorio
Michael Latshaw
Rik Munshi
MaryKate Myott
Alana Palmer
Giovanna Parnoff
Claire Roberts
Laura Attanasio
“Quant’è bella giovinezza”/How Beautiful is Youth by Lorenzo de’ Medici, recited by Tosca f.
La Primavera (Spring) di Ugo Betti, recited by Mary-Kate M.
National Spanish Exam
Level 1
Arjun DiLuna
Miriam Levin
Claire Xu
Milin Patel
David Reyes
John O’Connell * Perfect Score Medal
Beckett Ehrlich
Miles Liao
Nikhi Vallabhajosyula
Noah Novemsky
Calder Resch
Level 2
Ava Kwok
Samantha Bernstein
Rania Das
Liam Teel
Ripley Chance
Shriya Vaid
Avani DiLuna
Will Davitt
Michael Illuzzi
Adam Tuchmann(
Nicole Tooker
Lily Dumas
Level 3
Lucas Llovera
Nick Takoudes
Alyssa Friedman
Katherine Spenner
Krish Agarwal
Sylvia Covaci
Eleanor Lee
Karun Srihari
Maeve Klatell
Sean Kelly
Ryan Coffey
Henry Foushee
Alexander Skula * Perfect score
Eric Roberts * Perfect score
Level 4
Benjy Novemsky
Lucas Samuelson
Level 5
Matthew Segal
Michael Kluger
Luca Vujovic
Helen Zhou
Mi primer resfriado (My First Cold) By Celia Viña Olivella, recited by Ashvin van B.
Agua Nocturna (Water Night) by Octavio Paz, recited by Matt S.