One-hundred and three students from Garden City High School recently participated in the National Italian Exam, sponsored by the American Association of Teachers of Italian. This year, 74 Garden City High School students earned awards for their exceptional performance.
The NIE provides an excellent opportunity to highlight the students' success, as more than 6,000 high school students of Italian take the exam nationwide every year. AATI offers an extensive regional and national prize program, consisting of monetary prizes, study-trips to Italy, medals and certificates to award students of all different language proficiency levels to celebrate their accomplishments.
Congratulations to the following students:
Gold Medals, Medaglia d’Oro:
• Ava Chen, Ibrahim Chohan, Gianluca Damiano, Annalisa DiPaolo,* Francesca Garcia Rocha,* Casey Hensen, Ryan Lotito,* Taylor Maguire,* Amelia Moran, Tyler Orishimo (Level 2)
• Olivia Allsbrook,* Laura Kahn, Gabriella Tromba* (Level 3)
• Daniela Fabrizi, Hunter Maguire* (Level 4)
• Owen Conway (Level 5)
(*also received monetary awards)
Silver Medals, Medaglia d’Argento:
• Jonathan Ackar, Jackson Castellanos, Ava Pineda (Level 2)
• Andrew Byrnes (Level 3)
• Silvana Newcomb (Level 4)
• Jack Caldara, Armeen Panthaki (Level 5)
Bronze Medals, Medaglia di Bronzo:
• Mae Rose Gaffney, Nicholas Hensen, Alexander Kfuri, Ethan Klie, Emma Liu, Susanna Ryan, Molly Schnell, Olivia Vendetti (Level 2)
• Julianna Costelli, Will Lentini, Emily Pulver, Josiah Sanasie, Rudy Scalise (Level 3)
• Ava Barone, Kate Connolly, Gianluigi Mazzella, Simone Oustatcher (Level 4)
Achievement Awards, Attestato di Merito: (not pictured)
• Lila Borrelli, Lia Costa, Sophia Cresciullo, Isabelle DeNoto, Alexandra DiCaprio, Teresa Gregory, Riley Hansman, Alexandra Holland, Brielle James, Matthew Rachich, Analisa Winter (Level 2)
• Alessandra Bonomi, Kayla Cherney, Leonardo Ciccarone, Isabella Davi, Molly DeAlbuquerque, Mia Dolan, Luciano Falzone, Christian Karavousanos, Shea McGovern, Sarah Tusiani-Eng (Level 3)
• Valentina Pape, Michael Tusiani-Eng, Eva Vitale (Level 4)
The district congratulations all students for their hard work and dedication as well as their dedicated Italian teachers, Lisa Malaszczyk and Giovanni D’Ambrosio, who played an integral role in preparing and guiding these students to success.