46 The Great Neck News, Friday, June 10, 2016
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219 G.N. students pass national Spanish exam Two hundred and nineteen students from Great Neck North and South High Schools are winners in the National Spanish Exam, sponsored by the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese. Their teachers at North High are department head Madalyn DeLuccia, Caitlin Gorta Healy, Isrrael Henriquez, Bessie Karanikolas, Christopher Pipala, and Alison Silk. The South High teachers of Spanish are department head Gala Handler, Fatima Colman, Geraldine Finazzo, Ana Tavares, and Brooke Zaiff. North High School Level 1 winners are Magny Nabavian, Gold, Jonathan Sasson, Silver, Dina Aziz, Valerie Davoodzadeh, Laura Hakakian and Michelle Nazar, Bronze and Aron Lakatos, Camryn Lessing, Brooke Rahmanan, Kimber Simchayof, Joshua Wigler, and Ariella Yahoudaee, Honor. Level 2 winners are Jason Beeferman, Carolina Carneiro, Michael Cohenmehr, Aaron Geula, Michelle Goh, Yoel Hawa, Aviya Litman, Molli Mamiye, Sharona Moradi, and Sarah Tang, Gold, Andrea Carrillo, Nicole Hirsch, Sasha Kashanian, Timothy Lee, Tamar Levy, Shannon Liu, Limor Makhani, Daniela Schwartz, Jennifer Shamash, Erica Smiley, and Rachel You, Silver, Vanessa Anderson, Carly Campbell, Sara Chitsaz, Andrew Iryami, Simon Lerner, Isabella Mirro, Isabelle Sarraf, Rachel Schlusselberg, and Brandon Villegas, Bronze, and Jeremy Ahdoot, Benjamin Ajodan, Jacob Asherian, Sophia Askari, Kayla Bakhshi, Daniella Balakhane, Samuel Calto, Lily Guggenheimer, Noah Hakim, Elliot Hakimian, Maya Hofman, Noah Hanover, Allison Hope, Kyle Kamali, Shi-In (Daniel) Kim, Sabrina Messite, Chloe Namdar, Chloe Noghreh, Karyn Simchayof, and Shoshanna Tokar, Honor. Level 3 winners are Lauren Hakimi, Courtney Hakimian, and Keiry Rivera, Gold, Avery Nabavian, Silver, Meital Agagi, Sidney Boker, Sarah Dayan, Natasha Dilamani, Julia Doppelt, Simona Fine, Emily Hakimi, Reuven Polvanov, Rachel Rothbaum, Celine Shamash, Amy Shteyman, Marc Zalta, Elaine Zhang, Bronze, and Michael Amrami, David Baravarian, Talia Bina, Joy Chang, Sarah (Sarit) Gad, Roger Hyman, Jessica Lalehzar, Victo-
ria Liu, Darby Moezinia, Shannon Nassi, Zachary Neman, Joshua Nouriyelian, Amanda Sanders, Sandra Shaoolian, Jacqueline Slobin, Aral Soykan, Rebecca Yaminian, and Sharlene Zar, Honor. Level 4 winners are Melina Cornejo, Silver, Rachel Berkower, Daniel Hirsch, Suyun Catherine Kim, Vanessa Kordmany, Joseph Taied, and Katie Tropp-Levy, Bronze, and Laura Bokser, Gabriella Burgos, Arlette Dilmanian, Julia Goldsamt, Jordan Greiff, Eden Janfar, Leah Klempner, Erica Levy, Lauren Rahmanim, Matthew Weinstein, and Deborah Yadidi, Honor. Level 5 winners are Danielle Ganjian, Silver, and Alessandra Antuzzi, Danielle Ganjian, and Gabriela Rodriguez, Honor. South High School Level 2 winners are Kristin Hon, Joyce A. Lee, and Joyce Lee, Gold, Elana Amir, Sienna Gonzalez, and Trinity Wang, Silver, Raul Calderon, Weiting Hong, Nicole Marinescu, Hermes Serpas, and Eric Yang, Bronze. Honorable Mention was Adrian Atahualpa, Patrick Duan, Paden Dvoor, Scott Goodman, Kenneth Hahn, Hannah Kareff, Zhi Jian Long, Jacob Raphael, Rachel Sakol, Carlos Sandoval, Rachel Schneider, Miriam Shamash, Sarah Shamash, Antonella Velaoras, and Sophie Williams. Level 3 winners are Kelley Chiu and Kimberly Lu, Gold, Victoria Chiu, Kelly Foo, Daniel Kim, Megha Reddy, and Anthony Xiang, Silver, Angelina Eapen, Vanessa Fazzini, Jacob Glueck, Shawn Kang, Benjamin Kobliner, and Jenny Li, Bronze. Honorable Mention was George Amentas, Salvatore Angelaras, Jake Dieber, Hannah Dienstag, Jeremy Feng, Sean Fishbein, James Kim, Stacey Leon Dejesus, XiaoLing (Lee) Li, Derek Lin, Emma Motelson, Florence Ning, Annie Park, Christopher Park, Mona Peng, Lauren Perlman, Alexandra Rigos, Michael Rose, Silvana Seidita, Mansi Shah, Adam Sperling, Michael Sun, Samuel Tello, Eugene Yi, Brian Volk, Boyang (John) Zhang. Level 4 winners are Aram Baghdassarian, Benjamin Newman, and Melody Yang, Gold, Aren Kalash, Karan Thadhani, and David Yuan, Silver, Sophia Estrada, Lucia Geng, Jessalyn Li, Christine Suh, Shrinath Viswanathan, and Alex Yuan, Bronze. Honorable Mention was Gianna Coluccio, Angie Cordoba, Ajay Dheeraj, Jo-
17 G.N. students pass national French exam
Seventeen Great Neck high school students are winners in the National French Exam (Le Grand Concours), at the Nassau County level. Joanna Asvestas is the French teacher at Great Neck North High School. Asvestas and Mary Ann Schwartz are French
teachers at Great Neck South High School. North High School Winners are Julia Otruba at level two, Fernanda Wenzel at level three, Julia Lesser at level four and Alessandra Antuzzi at level five. South High School Winners are Michael Lu,
Chloe Metz, Ethan Osman, Sophia Paskov, Katelyn Pramberger, Ashwin Shaji and Noah Sheidlower at level two, Jabin Pu at level three, Ariel Ben-Sorek, Yiqing (Elissa) He, Maximilian Manicone at level four and Annabelle Ng and Helena Woroniecka at level five.
rey Garcia, Isabella Harnick, Julia Lopez, Justin Ning, Alexis Pramberger, Haley Raphael, Lauren Reiss, Robert Sirotkin, Elizabeth Smith, Jaysen Zhang, and William Zheng. Level 5 winners are Emily Bae, Bren-
da Nava, Tina Pavlovich, and Annie Yang, Silver. Honorable Mention was Julian Balkcom, Stephanie Chang, Julia Mashall, Haarika Reddy, Elizabeth Voigt, and Michelle Mu Yang.
G.N. High showcases students’ tech work Each March, Great Neck North High School showcases a number of new technologies during their annual Teen Tech Week. Displays were set up in the library and in a nearby classroom where students eagerly interacted and had hands-on experiences with cutting-edge technologies and the latest digital-age tools. Displays included “Lego Mindstorms,” with students in Joseph Lipani’s Robotics Class creating customizable, programmable robots using Legos, “Educational Video Games with Visual Studio 2015,” designed by Colin Cubinski’s Computer Programming Class, “Maker Bot 3D Printing,” with art students in Joseph Giacolone’s class designing 3D objects for printing with the Maker Bot 3D printers, “Zspace-Virtual Reality,” a desktop virtual reality system that allows students to manipulate 3D objects for science, social studies, math, and more, “Nao Robot,” an interactive, person-
alizable humanoid robot that students can program to respond to voice and touch commands, “TriCaster Virtual Sets” offer live virtual sets that are realistic, greenscreen environments for student video recording projects, “Google Cardboard” allows students to take virtual reality field trips around the world in a simple and fun way, “Makey Makey” allows students to be creative and learn about circuitry using Makey Makey, an invention kit that turns everyday objects into a touchpad for the computer and “Creopop 3D Pen” which allows students to create 3D objects using the world’s first 3D pen that is safe to use and requires no heat. Faculty advisors for Teen Tech Week were Heather Parris-Fitzpatrick, technology staff developer, and Michael Meehan, audio-visual coordinator and TV North director. Teen Tech Week is sponsored by the Young Adults Library Services Association.