Hauppauge High School is pleased to announce that two students were semifinalists in this year’s annual Design-A-Card Contest sponsored by the Long Island Chapter of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP). Freshman Umut Baran Kahyaoglu won 7th place (teacher: Jonathan Hernández), and Sophomore Dana Liuzzo (teacher: Rosemarie Torres) took 9th place at the Senior High School level. Kahyaoglu drew a portrait of the internationally known figure of Colombian coffee Juan Valdez, and Liuzzo’s image depicted a silhouette of the Spanish Fighting Bull.
The Design-A-Card Contest was open to all students of teachers who are members of the AATSP organization. The competition was judged on three different levels: Senior High School (grades 7-12), Middle School (grades 6-8) and Elementary School (grades K-5). The Contest offers Long Island students an opportunity to create an original Hispanic/Spanish design (of cultural scenes, images, landmarks, maps, etc.) to be printed and used as an actual postcard to help raise funds to support the Judy Abrams/Margaret Fernández National Spanish Examination Scholarship Fund.
This year’s Design-A-Card contest had a total of 526 entries from schools/students across Long Island.
