Le Grand Concours The National French Contest ‘ofthe American Association of Teachers of Fench CONGRATULATIONS (Felletations) to our 2016 American High School Participants! Results aren for the national French contest with many of our students placing in the top percentiles nationally! ‘he National French Contest (Le Grand Concours) isn annual competition sponsored by the American Association of Teachers ofPrench, About total 86,000 students of French in grades 1-12, inal 50 states and abroad, voluntarily ‘tooka writen test and competed against students with similar educational background for prizes. Grades 7-12 partilpate inthe Secondary Contest= ‘21,791 students inthe French I level. {21,160 students inthe French 2 level. 418,140 students in the French 3 level. 10,900 students inthe Pench level. 4,753 suens inthe French 5 level, 22 National Winners (Lauréats Nationaux): Gold Medal: Level 2 Ming Qian Cui (10% grade}® Bronze Medal: Level2 Reema Kshetramade (99 grade)* Branden Bayani (10% grade) ‘Ananya Vaidya (99 grade)* ‘chu! Raheja (9 grade) Level Inis Zhong (9 grade) Paira Alvi (108 grade) Level’ Isabella Morimoto (10% grade) Level 1 Level 4H Shreya Nagpal (98 grade}? ‘Aisa Benamira-Dod (10 grade) Keya Shah (9 grade)" ‘Omar Gomez (12% grade) Level2 Alexander Zhou (108 grade) ‘Sarah Gray (108 grade) Level SAP Paloma Katiyar (grade) Viren Khandal (9% grade)” Level Saisha Agrawal (L1 grade) ‘Northern California Top 1-10 Rank ‘Manasi Kumar (38 grade)* Angela Zhao (10 grade) Level 4H ‘Avani Aggrwal (10% grade) Lynda Horvath (108 grade)" Level SAP Manasi Maheshwari (11% gradey* 23 Honorable Mention (Mention d’Honneur) winners: French 1: Ikram Bouhedda Sejal Shahi, Heba Simi Jennifer Song; French 2: James Chen, Abhishek Handigol, ‘Aashna Nilawar, Pragati Salunke, rth Seetharaman; French 3: Nandini Bhandari, Joyee Chen, Saurav Chhatrapat, Mithila Harirama, lan Hsiao, Sami Khan, Disha Kurane, jackie Tat; Prench 4H: Aaron Chen, Farhat Hat, Rachel Larsen, Aneri Shah; and French SAP: Anisha Bhangui and Ziyue Qi ‘Our appreciation is also extended to Mesdames Boseh, Campos and Silva for proctoring exams, to all ofthe parents who encouraged ther students to participate and who made donations, and to Mesdames DiFranco ‘and D‘Audney for their support! We could not have done it without your support! Meret beaucoup !