Franklin High Students place at Junior Classical League State Competition 

16 Students from Franklin High School, (Somerset County, NJ) came home with 15 State Wide Awards from the Junior Classical League.  This is an organization that celebrates Greek and Roman Civilization.  Every year, at a different “host” high school, a state convention is held where students compete in various activities.  The students also compete in a mini Olympics (chariot races, discus throw, running races, etc).  The students compete in an academic contest (mythology, derivatives, grammar, Roman Life) and participate in fun activities like the Latin Twister (Torquere), Latin Scavenger Hunt (Invenienda).  They also have art contests in various mediums, cooking contests (using ancient Roman/Greek Recipes) and costume contests.  The slogans and bookmarks that they created had to promote the student of classics.  Graffiti was commonly used in ancient Rome to advertise political agents and to express one’s love or cheer on a chariot team, thus its validity as one of the contests.  Each student won ribbons for the categories.

 The students won 15 state-wide awards!  They are as follows:

 Thomas Hasner - Grade 11 - First Place in Slogan

Niel Patel - Grade 11 - First Place in Original Myth

Shivani Patel and Shirin Poustchi - Grade 10 - Second Place in Original Game

Laura Melhorn - Grade 11 - Second Place in Slogan

David Lee - Grade 9 - Second Place in "Discus" Throw

Sigourney Hunter - Grade 9 - Third Place in Handmade Bookmark, Third Place in Costume, Second Place in Derivatives, and Second Place in Mythology

Emily Lewis - Grade 11 - Third Place in Graffiti

Shahana Lockhart - Grade 10 - Third Place in Graffiti

Zachary Brill - Grade 11 - Third Place in Slogan

Mark Sedlazek - Grade 11 - Third Place in Original Myth

Kevin Song - Grade 12 - Third Place in Computer Generated Bookmark

Haana Rafiq - Grade 11 - Third Place in Cartoon Caption