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Several Garden City High School Spanish students attained national recognition for their excellent performance on the 2023 National Spanish Examinations.
The students earned a total of 14 gold, 27 silver and 23 bronze medals along with 39 honorable mentions. “Attaining a medal or honorable mention for any student on the National Spanish Examinations is very prestigious,” said National Director of the Exams Lisa Greenman, “because the exams are the largest of their kind in the United States with over 85,000 students participating in 2023.”
The National Spanish Examinations are administered each year in grades six through 12 and are sponsored by the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese.
Students from Garden City High School were taught by Spanish teachers Alyssa Acierno, Dolores Beckner, Michael Berg, Stephanie Castañeda and Toni Gutiérrez. The district congratulates the following language learners on this well-deserved achievement.
Gold Medal Winners:
Level II: Valentina Clavijo, Isabella Fuertes, Everett Lehnert and Ashley Wang
Level III: Giana DeVito, Mannat Jain, Jeffrey Li, Lilith Mangal, Julia Rosenblatt, Julianne Smith,
Amy Xiao & Angela Yu
Level IV: Tara Murphy
Level V: Jimmy Vinciguerra
Silver Medal Winners:
Level II: Josephine Au, Alexandra Gregory, Catherine Horn, Aidan Klocek, Hannah Lam, Sarah Liu, Bridget Macchio, Julia Makrinos, Jessica Martin, Michaela Molgano & Mackenzie Molloy
Level III: Soham Bera, Melvin Lam, Eva Mangal, Madeleine McCarthy, Timothy Prybylski, Rachel Yeung and Alicia Zhang
Level IV: Victoria Lopez, Claire Mcnally, Emma Rathgeber, Sophia Sethi, Vikramjeet Sohal and Elaine Wang
Level V: Ana Bucevic, Sophia Wang and Claudia Yu
Bronze Medal Winners:
Level II: Joseph Carey, Henry Conlon, Alexis Labella, Iris Lee, Molly Pryor, Julia Sullivan, Claire Wu & KaHim Yuan
Level III: Kaitlyn Gebhard, Andrew Lam, Olivia Obioma, Grace Power, Sophia Rhein, Leo Su and Julia Wang
Level IV: Sarah Chen, Julia Cherchever, Sylvia Diaz, Tara Hollis, Ana Seebrath, Laila Smith and Josephine Yin
Level V: Gavin Burns
Honorable Mentions:
Level II: Ashley Clark, Ashley Conefry, Meghan Crane, Conor Fortney, Allyson Hsieh, Lauren
Kaiserman, Ella Leonardo, Katherine Pfeiffer, Alessandra Pinto, Daly Prybylski, Lucy Ryan, Jisha Samuel, Maria Sartorelli, Katie Schneider, Kayla Setiadi, Jayden Yu and Maria Zimmerman
Level III: Ashley Buckman, Catherine Clavin, Julia Forelli, Amelia Graser, Julia Jovanovic, YuJun Lin, Joseph Lippens, Victoria Ottomanelli, Breanna Santopietro, Lauren Schneider, Ava Sethi and Zachary Zander
Level IV: Ryan Arlotta, Holden Herrera, Ali Khan, Maysa Lihaz, Erin Lloyd, Preston Longo, Michael Power, Rose Schreier, Michael Sullivan and Mary Kate Sweeney