On Oct. 18, 31 middle school and 19 upper school Latin students traveled to La Entrada School in Menlo Park for the fall Junior Classical League convention, Ludi Octobres. Students participated in contests and games, attended colloquia and had fun meeting other Latin students from all over Northern California.
Students earned the following awards:
Level Middle School 1 (all grade 6):
Theo Davidson: Second in Mottos, Quotes, and Abbreviations
Aiden Ding: played on the Third place Novice Open Certamen team
Audrey Hu: Firstin Novice Reading Comprehension
Hannah Liu: Third in Derivatives
Level Middle School 2 (all grade 7):
Mili Agarwal: Firstin Mottos, Quotes, and Abbreviations
Shiven Bhargava: Second in Latin Vocabulary, Firstin Novice Grammar
Ayden Bi: Second in Derivatives
Terence Heng: Firstin Academic Pentathlon, Third in Daily Life/Roman History, played on the Firstplace Novice Open Certamen team
Ally Horan: Third in Mythology
Jason Huo: played on the Second place Novice Open Certamen team
Suanne Li: Firstin Derivatives, Second in Novice Reading Comprehension, played on the Second place Novice Open Certamen team
Jeannie Song: Firstin Novice Reading Comprehension, Firstin Latin Vocabulary
Level Middle School 3 (all grade 8):
Claire Alpha: Second in Latin Sight Reading, Second in Intermediate Reading Comprehension, Third in Intermediate Grammar
Natasha Chatterjee: Second in Daily Life/Roman History
Landon Li: Second in Intermediate Reading Comprehension
Joshua Lin: First in Intermediate Reading Comprehension, First in Derivatives
Meena Mudigonda: Second in Derivatives
Liv Sachdev: First in Latin Vocabulary
Kyle Xu: First in Mythology, Second in Latin Vocabulary, played on the Second place Intermediate Open Certamen team
Individual awards:
Level High School 3 (all grade 9):
Ethan Weyn – First place pentathlon; Second place mottoes, quotes, & abbreviations; Third place mythology
Ethan Yu – First place vocabulary; First place derivatives
Jessica Xu – Third place grammar
Ravi Saxena – Second place reading comprehension
Reyansh Malla – Second place daily life
Tavish Yergera – First place grammar; Second place vocabulary
Level High School Advanced:
Demi Zheng, grade 11 – First place vocabulary; First place sight reading; Second place grammar
Jacob Chung, grade 10 – Third place grammar
Leo Zhang, grade 11 – Second place pentathlon; Third place derivatives
Lucas Yuan, grade 10 – First place reading comprehension; Third place vocabulary
Pascal Qin, grade 11 – First place mottoes, quotes, & abbreviations
Raeanne Li, grade 11 – Second place sight reading; Third place reading comprehension
Shreyas Karnam, grade 10 – First place daily life; First place grammar
William Jiang, grade 11 – Second place vocabulary
Zahra Syed, grade 10 – First place mythology; Second place derivatives
Open Certamen (competing on mixed teams with students from other schools):
First place – Ethan Weyn, Pascal Qin, William Jiang
Second place – Zahra Syed
Third place – Jacob Chung
(Certamen is a quiz bowl game with questions related to all aspects of the Latin language, Roman history and classical mythology; “open” means that students are randomly assigned to teams rather than playing for their school)
