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D219 Students Win Translation Contest, Set to Compete
Students from Niles North and Niles West High School will be traveling to the University of Illinois to compete in a translation competition.
Recently, Niles West and Niles North held translation competitions at their schools.
Participants translated a designated text from any of the official 23 European Union languages into English. The school winners then qualified for the Illinois High School Translation Competition held on May 2 at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, sponsored by the Center for Translation Studies and the European Union Center.
Niles West winners were Christian Vega, translating from Spanish to English, and Barbara Gawin, translating from Polish to English. Niles North winners were Paula Segovia and Alejandra Quezada, both translating from Spanish to English. These students will compete on May 2 at the University of Illinois.
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Other Niles West participants included: Alison Stangel, second place, Spanish and first place, French; Heydi Garcia, third place, Spanish; Wilfried Atade-Nanguit, second place, French; Joy Sherman, first place, German; Morgan Gstalter, second place, German; A.J. Schlesinger, third place, German; Julia Sarata and Anna Zapala, tied for second place, Polish; Maria Raikoff, first place, Bulgarian; Yara Barbosa, first place, Portuguese; Ligia Veliciu, first place, Romanian and Daiana Man, second place, Romanian. Also: Beata Soltys, Barbara Magiera, Magda Soltys, Anna Antonow, Stacey Canchola, Clara Olivares, Crystal Domingo, Tiffany Alvarado and Purva Chandel.
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