General News, Upper School

Classicalists Take 20 Medals, Including 13 Gold, in National Online Exam

Harker just received results from the National Classical Etymology online exam that students in grades 9-10 took in November. Harker students earned 20 medals: 13 gold, five silver and two bronze! The exam consisted of Latin and Greek derived words that students had to define in English based on their root meanings.

Gold Medalists: Erik Anderson, Cobi Ashkenazi, Jonathan Cho, Nik Datuashvili , Simon Orr, Christopher Sund, Ashvin Swaminathan, Apurva Tandon, all grade 10; Sarika Bajaj, Kevin Duraiswamy, Connie Li, Sreyas Misra, Brian Tuan, all grade 9. Silver medals were won by  Daphne Millard, grade 10 and freshmen Tiffany Chu,  Helena Huang,  Saachi Jain  and Urvi Gupta. Bronze medals were won by Andy Wang and Nikhil Dilip, both grade 9.

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