Modern Language students annually participate in a variety of contests--in-house and regional. The first of these contests is the in-house oral proficiency contest, held each January, for Level 1 in Middle School andLevels 01-5 in Upper School French and Spanish. The student is interviewed by a panel of Modern Language teachers and a winner is selected at each level. The winners then go on the the Montgomery County Oral Proficiency Contest held in the end of February. The winners for 1999-2000 are:
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FRENCH Level 2: Laure Biron Level 3: Rachel Kohn Level 4: Lauren White Level 5: Swathi Bala |
SPANISH Level 2: Danielle Potts Level 3: Stephanie Lassin Level 4: Stephanie White Level 5: Margaret Whitman |
These winners went on to represent GA at the Montgomery
County Oral Proficiency Contest held at Plymouth-Whitemarsh High
School on February 29th. Alexa Haines, Christie Shaner, Swathi
Bala and Margaret Whitman were named finalists and each won second
place in their category.
Students also participate in the National Contests for both French and Spanish. The 1999-2000 winners for "Le Grand Concours" were:
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LEVEL 5 WINNER Margaret Whitman (Local) HONORS Swathi Bala (honorable mention) |
LEVEL 4 WINNERS Courtney Baron (national) |
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LEVEL 3 WINNERS Laura Bigwood (national) Anusha Bala (local) Blair Bodine (honorable mention) |
LEVEL 2 WINNERS Katherine Lloyd (runner-up) Jillian Baron (honorable mention) |
| LEVEL 5 ********* HONORS Margaret Whitman |
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3 ********* HONORS Sarah Griffith |
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2 ********* HONORS Danielle Barav Meredith Cocco Brian Dimm Roxanne Hernandez Meredith Kleiner Kate Lukof Rebecca Pond Danielle Potts |
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01 ********** HIGHEST SCORE Kathryn Kleppinger EXCELLENCE Rebecca Dunlap Jennifer Fruzzetti Jen Ramirez |
Teachers who belong to MCATFL (the Montgomery County Association of Teachers of Foreign Language) are entitled to award a Certificate of Merit to five of their students each academic year. This certificate is given to students for their dedication to and their excellent level of achievement in the study of French or Spanish. This year's awards for students in Upper School courses are as follows:
FRENCH
Swathi Bala, Katherine Harris, Matthew Hess, Victoria Kimball, Rachel Kohn, Daniel Latta, Jason Napierski, Diana Rogers, Brad Ruppel, Lauren White, Margaret Whitman
SPANISH
Brian Aleksa, Matthew Crespi, Rebecca Dunlap, Allison Fox, Jennifer Fruzzetti, Sarah Griffith, Jonathan Goldberg, Harley Cooper, Emily Hartnett, Michael Hernandez, Kathryn Kleppinger, Scott Kling, Michael Kohn, Stephanie Lassin, Genevieve Lehr, Joanna Mack, Lindsey Pete, Daniel Potts, Jen Ramirez, Joanna Rhoads, Melanie Tsoflias, Daniel Veltri, Kathryn Warner, Stephanie White, Kelly Winning
Congratulations to Margaret Whitman '00, the recipient of Second Place in the Pennsylvania State Modern Language Association Outstanding High School Graduating World Language Student Competition for 2000.
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