Thirty-three Massapequa High School and Ames Campus students were awarded for outstanding performance on the National German Examination (NGE) administered by the American Association of Teachers of German. Their high achievement places them on the NGE Presidential Honor Roll, a distinction shared by only two other public high schools on Long Island.
Junior Meghan Goodwin and senior Kaitlyn Peterson, each earned a silver award on the level four exam, while seniors Christina Conkling, Kyle Fehn and Brian Walker earned bronze awards.
Sophomores Christopher Hadsall, Alexandra Kanapes and James Kuoppala, earned the highest scores in their class on the level three exam, winning a gold award and a four-week study abroad trip to Germany for scoring in the 90th percentile or higher on the exam. Sophomores Thomas Koemm, Bailey Rosmarin and Kevin VanVorst received silver awards, and bronze awards went to sophomores Megan Colozzo, Angelica Radomski and Elizabeth Stippell.
Ninth-grade students at Massapequa High School-Ames Campus took the level two exam, also earning recognition. Gold award winners were Ryan Abrigo, Thomas Beck, Gabriella DiPaola, John Gonzalez, Samantha McGrath, Gillian Murphy and Evan Warns. Silver Award recipients included Alexia Bardio, Thomas Bradbury, Christopher Braglia, Christian DeNave, Keirnan Garcia, Paul Lestingi, Samuel Mahoney and James McGarrity. Bronze awards were given to Evan Donahue and Tyler Rimkunas. These award winners were among 22,000 students who took the 100-question exam nationwide.
