CHS Students Participate, Place In Annual Foreign Language Festival At IUP

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On Saturday, April 2, 2022, Central High School’s foreign language teachers, Kevin Buynack and Louise Wilson, took six students to the 31st annual Foreign Language Festival (FLF) at the Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP). This event is sponsored by the Appalachian Professional Language Educators’ Society (or APPLES), a local group of foreign language teachers.

There has been a two-year hiatus for the FLF due to COVID concerns, but it was wonderful to get the language students excited about their academic endeavors again! Academic categories include listening, speaking, reading, and writing. There are also performance and art and culture categories like literary recitation, dance, drama, music/vocal, music/instrumental, art/reproduction, art/original, construction models, and tee-shirts in which the students can choose to compete. Students always enjoy showing off their foreign language and other talents outside the classroom, and it is amazing to see all the students cheering each other on for such a wonderful academic competition!

Such an event also meets the academic standard of Communities in foreign languages, as students share their talents in their target languages with those from outside the classroom itself.

All six CHS students who participated placed in various ways.  Some placed in multiple events.  This is AMAZING, considering that there were about 200 participants this year.  Here is a list of students who placed in various categories of the exciting competitions:

Spanish III Reading

1st place:  Rebekah Disney

3rd place:  Darcy Heltzel

Spanish III Listening

2nd place:  Darcy Heltzel

Spanish III Composition

1st place:  Rebekah Disney

2nd place:  Darcy Heltzel

Music/Vocal

1st place:  Connor Hummel

Spanish IV Literary Recitation

2nd place:  Luke Knisely

Spanish IV Reading

2nd place:  Violet Smith

3rd place:  Joclynn Ramsey

Spanish IV Listening

2nd place tie:  Joclynn Ramsey and Violet Smith

Spanish IV Composition

2nd place:  Joclynn Ramsey

3rd place:  Violet Smith

Spanish IV Oral Proficiency

3rd place:  Joclynn Ramsey

Congratulations to all the students for their outstanding contributions to the 31st Foreign Language Festival.