National Spanish Exam National French Exam Results from West Hollow MS, High School East and High School West 2010 129 West Hollow students participated in the National Spanish Exam. The exam was administered in the Mac Lab from March 23rd through March 25th. The participating teachers were Mrs. Dutra, Mrs. Lantier, Ms. Mills, Mrs. Wagner and Mrs. Watt. The students earned a total of 11 Gold Awards, 44 Silver and 23 Bronze. 36 students received an Honorable Mention. Medalla de Oro (Gold Medal: 95th Percentile or above) Rafael Castellanos III Steven Cavataio Ryan Cruse Rachel Dvoskin Samantha Fondacaro Alyson Givre Taylor Hamilton Christopher Lastihenos Gaura Mudgal Sanaj Naval Lawrence Wolf-Sonkin Medalla de Plata (Silver Medal: 85th – 94th Percentile) Travis Alexander Edden Baram Shari Bieber Daniel Bockelman Tiffany Campana* Brandon Chin Rebekah Cohen Sarah Cohen Eric Dang Dana Desousa Alex Devarajan Shivali Devjani Andrew Dorfman *Student competed in Outside Experience Category
Medalla de Plata continued (Silver Medal: 85th – 94th Percentile) Katie Farello Brent Fogel Scott Gelman Amy Gill Kaitlin Goncalves Aaron Grossman Cindy Huang Rebecca Jacob Samantha Jacob Cara Jacobson Helen Kim Amanda Landenheim Alexandra Lastella James Litchhult Lauren Lopez Kimberly Manzi Giovanna Monti Natasha Pandit Chandni Patel Lindsey Pliskin Jessica Schwartz Matthew Sekuler Areeta Shah Zachary Silber Devin Simpson Rachel Singer Michael Taj Jillian Udell Jasmine Weber Kaitlyn Yong Alexandra Zigomalas
Medalla de Bronce ( Bronze Medal: 75th – 84th Percentile) Danielle Bruno Shayna Bryce Julia Cooper Anjali Devjani Michael Dwoskin Carly Galterio Osman Haq Tyler Hecker
Medalla de Bronce continued (Bronze Medal: 75th – 84th Percentile) Kaela Horowitz* Jake Irwin Andrew Korman Alex Liu Rachel Maiman Kelly McGuffog Emily Neuburger Jake Rachlin Sabrina Salama Sabrina Schnapp Jordan Shapiro Joseph Sotomayor Melanie Spiegel Deborah Yu Parris Zakarin *Student competed in Outside Experience Category
Premio de Excelencia (Honorable Mention: 50th – 74th Percentile) Julia Alford Jenna Bezzina Amanda Blum Matthew Bretschneider Christina Denker Melissa Distante Allison Epstein Cassandra Fiore Marissa Fitlin Deepa Francis Jake Geller Jamie Geller Sarah Gewirtz Robert Greenfield Jonathan Gropper Stefanie Joseph Nicole Keilitz Blake Kobak Dylan Mastrandrea Christian Moyse
Premio de Excelencia continued (Honorable Mention: 50th – 74th Percentile) Alex Needelman Matthew Perticone Brittany Pitt* Aitka Rajput Daniel Riess Justin Rothstein Danielle Rubenfeld Paula Sanchez Samantha Schwab Adam Shinbrot Jacqueline Silvestri Jamie Spellman Allyson Tiriolo Brian Tolep Sarah Williamson Allan Zarrabi *Student competed in Outside Experience Category
Certificado de ParticipaciĂłn (Participation) Jackey Cheung Cristian Cruz** Hannah Dalton Julia Gneiser Lindsay Goldman Cyrus Jo Kevin Li Christopher Martinez* Elizabeth Mielko Dana Nassau Edward Nolan Elizabeth Ramikssoon Kristen Shanley Jake Sonenblum Matthew Weinberg *Student competed in Outside Experience Category **Student competed in Bilingual Category
National French Contest (Le Grand Concours) Mrs. Mamodesen and Mrs. Beatty are happy to announce the results of this year's National French Contest (Le Grand Concours). With over 24,000 students competing at the (level 1) 8th grade level nationwide, West Hollow had 12 students place in the top 10 in Suffolk County and 2 students ranked in the top 10 in the nation. In Division 1A (8th grade students who began to study language in middle school), this year WH is the school with the most students ranked in the top 10 in the county. Suffolk County rankings: In Division 1A (8th graders) Ruby Yu - Ranked 3rd and 8th in the nation Taylor Russo - 6th Kennia Zepeda - 6th Shantanu Havaldar - 7th Ekin Ozturk - 7th Rachel Stern - 8th Samantha Ackerson - 9th Chandler Dowd - 9th Hunter Leifer - 9th Stefanie Alpert - 10th Roger Cheng - 10th In Division 1B (8th graders) - students who have lived in a French speaking country Raina Mesidor - 1st in the county and 1st in the nation
Sophie Sirulnick and Maria Sassone are proud to announce that they had several winners this year for the National French Exam competition both at the County and National levels. The names of the students are listed below: National Level 2 : Shreyas Havaldar National Level 3: Philip Cohn-Cort 6th place National Level 4: Karishma Sabhnani 6th place National Level 5: Berlande Benoit 8th place Suffolk Level 2 Rank Shreyas Havaldar 2 Tammy Jin 6 Amanda Luper 6 Alexa Gottesman 8 Susan Zhang 8 Danielle Poliak 9 Nicole Poliak 9 Michelle Wang 10 Suffolk Level 3 Rank Philip Cohn-Cort 1 Theodora Misthos 8 Rachel Dreznin 10 Suffolk Level 4 Rank Karishma Sabhnani 1 Arielle Koppell 9 Jake Cohen 10
The results from Jenn Houston, from HS West: Level 3: 8th place: Tanya Jain Level 4: Erica Huang- 6th Aaron Witzer- 7th Danielle Chuang 9th Stephen Jean- 10th Level 5 Rachelle Cadet- 7th place And from Patti Surico at HSW: Level 2A Jennifer Jung 4th place Samantha Mitchnick 6th place Nadia McKinney 7th place Level 2B Daphne Alerte 3rd place Krishna Chatpar 3rd place