Woodward Academy Senior Places 1st in Chinese Speech Contest

From Woodward Academy:

Woodward Academy senior Alexa Flesch won first place in the Special Group category at The Second Jiang Su Cup Chinese Speech Contest for High School Students held November 5 at the Confucius Institute at Emory University. More than 30 students from high schools throughout Georgia participated in the contest.

Juniors Grayson Prince and Samuel Etheredge also participated in the contest in the Level III category and each received encouragement awards.

Atlanta's Confucius Institute was established in March 2008 as an educational partnership among Emory University, Nanjing University in China, and Atlanta Public Schools, and the Confucius Institute Headquarters/Hanban. It was the first Confucius Institute to be established in the State of Georgia. Since its establishment, the institute has provided a broad range of programs to raise awareness of Chinese language, culture and society among schoolchildren, educators, college students and faculty, businesses, and communities in metro Atlanta and the State of Georgia.

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