Eastchester Middle School Students, Teacher Win Awards

EASTCHESTER, NY - Three Eastchester Middle School students and teacher Mary Leptak attended the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP) awards event on April 17.

Middle School students Alexa Cantreva and Sophia Sabelja's website on Guatemala was selected as the winner of the Metropolitan New York Chapter's competition in the digital category for creating a website in Spanish about Guatemala and its culture and history.

Sakura Abdel-Rahman, a student in Mrs. Katherine Shay’s Spanish class, won first place in the chapter's poster competition with artwork depicting symbols of Guatemalan culture.

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Mary Leptak won Best Spanish Teacher. Cantreva and Sabelja will be donating their monetary prize to the "Education for the Children" Organization.

AATSP promotes the study and teaching of the Spanish and Portuguese languages and their corresponding Hispanic, Luso-Brazilian and other related literatures and cultures at all levels of education, organizers said..

Photo caption, from left: Gabriela Altomarino (AATSP Board Director), The Honorable Myriam De La Roca (Consul General of Guatemala), Sakura Abdel-Rahman (winner-poster contest), Sophia Sabelja (winner-website competition), Alexa Cantreva (winner-website competition) and Mary Leptak, (best teacher award). Photo credit: Courtesy.