Waring Shines Again With 82 National Laureates in Le Grand Concours

Le Grand Concours is the National French Contest for students in middle and high school. This year over 90,000 students were enrolled across the US. The competition uses authentic cultural material from a number of francophone countries and tests students’ oral comprehension, reading, and grammar knowledge.

The contest places students in different fluency categories depending on their backgrounds to ensure fairness. It takes into account their levels of French, years of study of the language, and also family backgrounds. At Waring, 6 students were placed in the bilingual/bicultural category for their respective levels. The results of their performances were ranked separately.

This year, once again, our students excelled in the Grand Concours. Waring is so proud to have 82 national laureates receiving 82 medals: 2 platinum (for a perfect score), 20 gold (95th percentile), and 21 silver (85th to 90th percentile), and 39 bronze (75th to 80th percentile).

Bronze medal recipients:
FLES (6th grade): Theo Cabot, Jack Martin, Henry Younger, Brad Lyman, Olivia Miller, Auden Muchnik, Griffin Wells,
Clara Corcoran, Owen Denby, Arianne Horan, Spar Mulder, Catie Nemeskal.
Level 01A: Gareth Buhl, Anna Milendorf, Benny Weedon, William Stomberg, Henry Symes, Anand Fedele
Level 1A: Richard Stuart, Jackson Tham, Jared Wood, Stefan Karlberg, Ainsley Kyllingstad, Julia Kautz, Sara Wheeler
Level 2A: Olin Goudey, Katerina Pappas, Jacqueline Jutras, Holland Stam
Level 3A: Reid Bradshaw, Christianna Moestue, Samuel Lincoln, Audrey Buczko
Level 4A: Cordelia Tapping, Brooklyn Stam, Isaac Stuart, Hans Goudey
Level 5A: Isabelle Cookson, Rafaela Marinello

Silver medal recipients:
Level 01A: Luna Schiller, Swara Douglas, Phoebe Holz, Madeleine Jutras
Level 1A: Sarah Bradshaw, Elijah Biletch, Julia Natale, Grace Symes, Konrad Ellis, Sarah Malboeuf, George Cameron
Level 2A: Asher Leahy, Tano Barendsen-Rossi, Wren Schmith, Autumn Buhl
Level 3A: Emma Garthwaite
Level 4A: Sophie Wilson, Margaret Graves, Mikhail Kuznetsov
Level 5A: Gabriel Weedon, Isaac Ogle

Gold medal recipients:
Level 1A: Lily Wildrick, Pearce Crocker, Aly Yanishevsky, Ilana Frost, Madeline Boyd, Sasha Malley, Louis Quinquis
Level 2A: Elizabeth Ward, Sascha Denby, Lucy Sinclair,
Level 3A: Jack Kelly
Level 4A: William Boyd, Grace Panetta, Robert Malley
Level 5A: Henry Mitchell, Mateo Lincoln

Platinum medal recipient:
Level 1A: Alice Sullivan

Bilingual Category

Gold medal recipients:
Level 1C: Chloe Hupin
Level 5C: Adrien Hupin, Charlotte Bichet, Emma Taylor

Platinum medal recipient:
Level 1C: Paul Taylor