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2013 Lower School Trigon Finals

Photos are posted here.

A video is posted here.  

I've already received an e-mail from a woman in England who is planning to reproduce our event for a festival this weekend.  (Seriously.)  I told you that this was going to be big.

Congratulations to Ben Mims, Micah Murdock, and Josh Gray for making it to the championship game.

2013 CAMWS Translation Contest

We finally have the results for the 2012-2013 Classical Association of the Middle West and South Latin Translation Contest, a competition for upper-level high school Latin students in the CAMWS region (Virginia to Utah, Florida to Canada).

Only three schools in Tennessee had winners in this year's contest: MBA had two, Hume-Fogg had three, and MUS had five. To the best of my knowledge, this is the most winners MUS has ever had in a single year. 

Richard Ouyang - letter of commendation 

Shivam Bhakta and Jared Ashkenaz - book prize winners 

Salman Haque and Matthew Gayoso - $250 cash prize winners (for finishing in the overall top ten)

Congratulations to all of these excellent students.

2013 National Latin Exam Results

82 Summa Cum Laude Gold Medals

35 Maxima Cum Laude Silver Medals

30 Magna Cum Laude

14 Cum Laude

Generally speaking, students who score in the top 10-15% nationwide receive gold, and then it scales down from there.

Perfect scores:

Jacob Suppiah (Latin One)

Patton Orr, Chandler Clayton, Dylan Echlin, Forest Colerick, Patrick Murphy, Saatvik Mohan, Will McAtee (Latin Two)

Griffin Wilson, Jack Gray (Latin Three)

William Lamb, Salman Haque, Nick Schwartz (Latin Four)

A special shout-out to Salman Haque for his 4th consecutive perfect score.  There are usually only 4 or 5 students in the nation to achieve this in any given year.  

Congratulations to all of our award recipients for a job well done.

2013 Latin Convention Results

Thirty schools attended the 2013 Tennessee Junior Classical League State Convention in Murfreesboro this weekend.  MUS survived a serious challenge from Hume-Fogg Academic High School to finish in 1^st place overall for the 6^th consecutive year.

We had a total of 45 Upper School and Lower School students take part in this competition, and all of them contributed something to this victory.  We were led by 6 students in particular, all of whom scored enough individual points to rank among the top 10 students in the state:
Will McAtee, Patton Orr, William Lamb, Salman Haque, Yunhua Zhao, and Richard Ouyang.

In any sort of competitive activity, it is difficult to be a defending champion.  It is especially difficult to be a five-time defending champion, as we were this year.  We are very proud of our students for working so hard to defend our title.  More importantly, we are also proud of them for behaving appropriately at the convention and for winning with modesty and class.

The Birth of a New Blog

The Bubones Blog is replacing The Nuntii Latini Blog.  The Nuntii Latini Blog began as an e-mail newsletter in the early 2000s before changing over to a blog in 2008.  It was named in honor of Nuntii Latini, a Latin news program produced since the late 1980s by Finland's equivalent of National Public Radio.

The purpose of this blog is to keep parents (and students) informed of things happening in the Memphis University School Latin program.