By Clark Campbell
Are you interested in the Classics? Or have you ever wanted to share your skills with mythology and history? AZJCL, or The Arizona Junior Classical League, is the club run by Ms Palumbo, which gives students the chance to compete in different sets of classics competition to win awards.
There are four areas of competition: athletic, academic, creative, and graphic, so all students can support the club by utilizing their skills and talents. This year, with the world-wide Covid-19 pandemic, the competitions could not take place in person. This unfortunately means that the athletic portion had to be cut from the entire convention as a whole. Fortunately, though, the other aspects of the competition were still on and have taken place.
Many of the tests were taken online, and all art was submitted virtually. Even though many schools could not participate in the convention as usual, TPA still did very well. Tempe Prep had representatives in about all of the categories, as well as first places all around. Aside from all these awards, the Advanced Certamen team, which participates in a quiz bowl, received the 3th place award. Overall Tempe Prep won more than 70 awards!
Of course this isn’t TPA’s first year doing well, in 2007 Tempe Prep won 44 awards in various categories. A big contributor to this was Amalia Skilto, who was the top classicist for each year she participated in the AZJCL. TPA has been growing in the classics department for years, and we seem to have peaked this year.
This weird yet great way to still participate in the convention has shown the great heights that we can achieve using online services to connect with each other and even other schools. So look out for ways to participate in your clubs by finding ways to support the school in as many ways as possible.
Results:
Latin I (Grade 7)
Gold Medal – Summa Cum Laude
Ellie Han, Beckett Terrell, Fern White, and Ellanor Rynish.
Silver Medal – Maxima Cum Laude
Brian Mause, Kaleeya Munoz, Delaney Lawson, and Lillian Maxwell
Magna Cum Laude
Naomi Nguyen, Mariah Gunnison, Julia Hannon, Bianca Munoz, Maeve Waddell, and Camille
Snyder.
Cum Laude
Kielan Austin, Joseph O’Connor, and Autumn E.
Latin II (Grade 8)
Gold Medal – Summa Cum Laude
Jay Nergard (PERFECT PAPER!), Tevin Nguyen, Borislava Panayotova. Taryn Hamilton, and
Niamh Waddell.
Silver Medal – Maxima Cum Laude
Taylor Conley, Joshua Hackett, Jacob Schoenhals, Christopher Milner, Tamsin Hurlbut, Zoe Lenz,
Kevin Pham, and Isabella Duran.
Magna Cum Laude
Noah Quiros and Tate Foudy.
Cum Laude
Nick Hedberg, Mary Newman, Erik Morris, Jackson Shelton, Ethan Risch, William Chafey,
Joseph Cady, and Sofie Mattson.
Latin III (Grade 9)
Gold Medal – Summa Cum Laude
Eowyn Stojanowski and Connor Clark
Silver Medal – Maxima Cum Laude
Catherine Ross, Naomi Palmer, Kinglee Tham, Hannah Frazier, Clark Campbell, and Cole Montei.
Magna Cum Laude
Benjamin Moriarty, Cami Wisneski, and Ben Jones.
Cum Laude
Jack Kristof
Latin IV (Grade 10)
Magna Cum Laude
Hailey Henderson and Cameron Hill