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1/28/2003
Contact: K.E. Schwab -- 724-738-2199; e-mail:
karl.schwab@sru.edu
HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS FROM BUTLER, LAWRENCE,
MERCER AND ALLEGHENY COUNTIES TO ATTEND FOREIGN LANGUAGE
COMPETITION AT SLIPPERY ROCK UNIVERSITY
SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa.
-- More than 1,000 students from 35 regional high schools will
converge on Slippery Rock University Feb. 11 for a "World Language
Competition," an event that promotes cultural awareness and
showcases SRU's strong modern languages department.
Students from
Butler, Allegheny, Lawrence and Mercer counties will compete for
individual and school prizes in all levels of Spanish, French,
German and Latin. Plaques and trophies will be presented to winning
schools, while individual students received dictionaries, T-shirts
and certificates.
SRU offers courses
in Spanish, French, German, Russian, Japanese and Korean. Dr.
Melinda Ristvey and Dr. Deb Cohen, professors of modern language
and cultures, organized the competition. Helping out were Amy
McCamey, department secretary, and Kayla Whipkey, a secondary
education, Spanish major from Prospect. Currently, 13 students are
spending spring semester studying at Spain's Universidad de Alcala
as part of a special, intensive Spanish language program offered by
SRU.
The daylong event begins at 9 a.m. and will
feature 30-minute sessions in Swedish, Korean, Japanese and other
world languages exposing the competitors to other cultures.
International students at SRU will answer questions about teenage
life in their home country, and a workshop on teaching foreign
languages will be offered high school language teachers attending
with their students.
The program is designed to spotlight
academic excellence in language skills and allow students to
compare and share their abilities with others in similar
programs.
Participating
schools include
Avella High School
Bethel Park High School Cathedral
Prep
Center High School
Chartiers-Houston High School
Chartiers Valley High School
Cochranton High
School Commodore Perry High
School Dorseyville Middle
School
Fairview Fox Chapel
High School Independence Middle
School
Kennedy Catholic High
School Keystone Oaks High
School Lakeview Christian
Academy
Laurel High School
Lincoln High School Mercer High
School
Mercyhurst Preparatory
School Mohawk Jr/Sr. High
School Neshannock High
School
North Clarion High
School NW PA Collegiate
Academy Norwin Senior High
School
Our Lady of the Sacred
Heart Portersville Christian
School Redbank Valley High
School
Shenango High
School Slippery Rock High
School Quaker Valley High
School
Quaker Valley Middle
School
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