Eight students from The Wheatley School have been awarded gold status for their performance on this year’s National Spanish Exam. This academic competition tests skills in listening and reading comprehension, vocabulary and structure. This year’s gold winners include Roslyn area residents Khavi Ahmed, John Scudero, Mana Shukla, Vedant Singh and Brandon Zhu, freshmen Adeel Anwar and Sana Haroon and junior Jaclyn Stroud. The students’ scores placed within the top 5 percent of all students who took the exams in their respective levels. The National Spanish Exam is sponsored by the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese. In addition to the gold winners, Wheatley students were awarded 17 silver, 17 bronze and
54 honorable mention certificates.
