March 25, 2015

They Speak the Language

phs students

Seven Princeton High School students have been awarded scholarships by the Foreign Language Educators of New Jersey (FLENJ). The state-wide competition, which resulted in 10 awards overall this year, is based upon a performance assessment in the target language, with students writing an essay to a prompt, followed by a telephone interview for semi-finalists. The PHS winners are studying diverse foreign languages, including Mandarin, Italian, French, Japanese, and Spanish. Winners, who received a $1,000 scholarship for college, are from left: Lila Abreu (French), Charles Jenkin (Italian), Patrick Sockler (Italian), Eric Ham (French), Architha Sudhakar (Mandarin), Rhea Braun (Japanese),  and Alana Chmiel (Spanish).