Lower School Trigon

The first round of the annual Lower School trigon competition will begin Wednesday, April 26 at 2:30 PM. We will meet in LS 106. This is open to any Lower School students who joined the Latin Club this year.

The trigon instructional video is posted here.

Bernice Fox Classics Writing Contest

Congratulations to Advanced Readings in Latin student Chris Kerkhof for placing in the 2017 Bernice Fox Classics Writing Contest, an annual creative writing competition sponsored by Monmouth College (IL). The contest this year featured the following topic: “A Figure from Classical History, Literature, or Mythology as the Next President of the United States.” Chris wrote about Trimalchio, a character in the Satyricon, a novel written by the Roman author Petronius.

Contest information and the full list of winners is posted here.

A Game of World Conquest

Since January, MUS Latin students have been involved in an epic tournament of Imperium, an ancient Roman version of the board game Risk. Congratulations to the winners of this semester's tournament:

Upper School:

1st Place - Ev Nichol
2nd Place - Loyd Templeton
3rd Place - Brooks Eikner

Lower School:

1st Place - Will Schuessler
2nd Place - Edwin Shy
3rd Place - Stefan Smith

National Latin Exam Report

We have received the results of the 2017 National Latin Exam:

85  Summa Cum Laude Gold Medals
32  Maxima Cum Laude Silver Medals
18  Magna Cum Laude
14  Cum Laude

Generally speaking, the top 10 to 15% of students nationwide earn Summa Cum Laude, the next 10 to 15% receive Maxima, and so forth. Everyone who scores above the national average qualifies for one of the four awards.

Special recognition goes to the students who earned perfect scores this year:

Latin One: Edwin Shy, Warren Barry, Fisher Marks, Ryan Peng
Latin Two: Kyle Koester, Rob McFadden, Charlie Eason, Vijdan Gill, Reid Chandler
Latin Four Poetry: Chang Yu

Congratulations to all of the students who placed in the contest this year!

TJCL Convention Report

Is this a picture of 44 MUS Latin students making the "U" sign? Or are they holding up 10 fingers? The answer is yes.

This weekend, 37 schools across the state attended the Tennessee Junior Classical League State Convention at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville. MUS finished in 1st place overall for the 10th consecutive year.

This was an impressive team effort, and all of the students on the trip contributed in some way to the 1510 points that MUS scored in a wide variety of Latin-related competitions. Our top performers were Rob McFadden, Brooks Eikner, Kyle Koester, and Ethan Hurst, all of whom finished in the individual top ten at the convention.

All three MUS Certamen teams advanced to the finals, with the Latin One and Latin Two teams winning their respective tournaments. (The Advanced team finished in third place, behind two very strong Certamen teams from middle Tennessee.) Also, the MUS chariot team finished in first place, bouncing back after last year's devastating loss by a mere fraction of a second.

Congratulations to all of the students who were a part of this outstanding group achievement!