German students earn accolades for German exam

Each year, the American Association of Teachers of German sponsors the National German Exam, which is administered to nearly 22,000 high school students in the second, third and fourth levels of German. This year, a number of Garden City High School German students participated in the National German Exam and earned accolades.

The exam provides German teachers with individual diagnostic feedback, promotes language proficiency in the study of German and rewards students for their accomplishments. The National German Exam honors student performance with gold, silver, and bronze awards and achievement awards.

Congratulations to the following recipients: Sarah Phinney, Rebecca Phinney, Sarah Pogozelski, Ava Sethi and Sophia Sethi for earning the gold award.

Silver awards were earned by Sophie Lippens, Sara Shamail and James Trocchia.

Bronze awards were earned by Leila Massina, Roisin Pfaff, Evan Rom and Elizabeth Rosado.

Achievement awards were earned by Meredith Breen, Kelly Deutsch, Eric Hartmann, Breckin Kammerer, Tara Kerimian, Grant Lemieux, Augustin Mingoia-Murphy, Kate Pogozelski, Michael Ragas, Daniel Shohdy and William Sweeney.

Three students were eligible for the AATG study trip award based upon their test score, and scoring in the 90th percentile or higher. These students were Sarah Pogozelski, Ava Sethi and Sophia Sethi.