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KU announces Schuelerkongress medalists

LAWRENCE — More than 140 medals were awarded to high school and junior high school students studying German at the University of Kansas’ Schuelerkongress, or student congress, held March 1.

A total of 280 students from schools in Abilene, Hays, Junction City, Lawrence, Lindsborg, Newton, Olathe, Overland Park, Topeka and Wichita attended the annual event sponsored by the Kansas Association of Teachers of German in cooperation with KU’s Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures.

Schuelerkongress promotes the study of German languages, literature and culture with contests in poetry recitation (lyrik), prose reading (prosa), spelling (rechtschreibung), cultural tests (kulturquiz) and poster making.

Junction City High School students won first in the poster-making contest; Olathe East High School, second; Newton High School, third; Abilene High School, fourth; and Olathe North High School, fifth.

A committee of high school teachers selects the poems and prose in advance to match students’ level of study, such as first-year or second-year German. Faculty and graduate teaching assistants from KU judged the contests.

Kansas high school and junior high school students who won medals are listed below by their schools. Some students entered more than one event. Medals recognize proficiency for first-, second-, third- and fourth-year German. An “E” medal recognizes a fifth-year of study or study abroad experience.

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