RHS Students Earn Medals on National Language Exams

Jun 14 2022

Congratulations to the dozens of Radnor High School World Language students who were recently named medal winners on the national French, Latin and Spanish exams!

The goal of the Radnor High School World Languages department is to help develop students into active members of a global society through the study of world languages and cultures.

The National German Exam winners from RHS were previously announced in March.

Congratulations to all of this year's winners!

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National French Exam

Le Grand Concours is The National French Contest of the American Association of Teachers of French. Students were evaluated for their written, oral and listening comprehension skills in French.

Gold Medal

Kaitlin Browne
Alexander Niedland
Kaya Saravanan
Michael Tropeano

Silver Medal

Defne Doken
Sonia Dougherty
Angel Flores
Georgia Gatta
Logyne Ghazi
Rafaela Goncalves
Avril Lee
Daisy Madden
Aidan Oliver
Sri Sugumar
May Ly Tran
Agathe Verger

Bronze Medal

Emily Anagnos
Piper Boulden
Sophie Carter
Zachary Han
Sophia Kaisermann
Kethan Kalra
Maya Kaneda
Ella Klimonwicz
Renata Kozlowska
David Llorente
Mark Pasles
William Meyer
Athen Tidmarsh
Chris Zhao

Honorable Mention

Victor Au
Leina Ciarrocchi
Anna Conen
Alexandra DeCain
Elsa Gallia
Andrea Guzman
Nicole Harris
Amelia Hilbert
Nicole Irani
Lila Jackson-Molnar
Lizzy Johnstone
Sofie Jubelirer
Eliza Ka
Elia Koleth
Giana Lee
Owen Lim
Edith MacKenzie
Lauren Meyer
Anya Nazareth
Anais Rios
Morgan Ross
Kyle Wang

French Exam winners were students of Nicole Braun, Golaleh Daryoush, and Corinna Segal.

National Latin Exam

The National Latin Exam, sponsored by the American Classical League and the National Junior Classical League, tests students all over the globe on their translation skills and knowledge of Latin grammar, mythology, derivatives, literature, Roman life, history, geography, oral Latin, reading comprehension, and in the use of Latin in the modern world.

A gold medal and a summa cum laude certificate are awarded to top scorers, a silver medal and maxima cum laude to second place winners, magna cum laude certificate to third place winners and cum laude certificate to fourth place winners.

Gold Medal (summa cum laude)

Defne Doken
Theodore He
Skyler Le (poetry exam)

Silver Medal (maxima cum laude)

Ellie Davis (poetry exam)
Commerce Fisk
Jacob Kellerman
Hyeonjin Kim (poetry exam)
Manato Matsuoka (poetry exam)
Arav Menon

Certificate (magna cum laude)

William Curley
Chris Goncher (prose exam)
Daniel Kaper-Barcelata
Finn Metzger
Grace Xu
Lauren Yoo (poetry exam)

Certificate (cum laude)

Ryan Brennan (poetry exam)
Lindsay Feinberg (poetry exam)
Luke Horchler (poetry exam)
Jaden Jones
Will Liu
Caroline Murray-Hayden
Quinn O'Donovan
Jagtej Thiara
Bridget Walsh
Andrew Yu

Latin Exam winners were students of Dr. Donal McGay.

National Spanish Exam

The purpose of the National Spanish Examination is to recognize achievement in the study of the Spanish language, to promote proficiency in interpretive communication in the Spanish language, to assess the national standards as they pertain to learning Spanish and to stimulate further interest in the teaching and learning of Spanish.