The Latin Sight Translation Contest for High School Students is Back!

The New York Classical Club is delighted to invite you to send your students to this year’s Latin Sight Translation Contest for High School Students. This year’s competition will be held on Saturday, April 23, 2022 at 12:00 pm at The Brearley School, located at 610 E 83rd St., New York, NY 10028.  Monetary prizes will be awarded to the top three translators in each of the five different divisions of the competition: $150 (1st), $100 (2nd), and $75 (3rd). Please note that a certain amount of vocabulary will be provided for all the passages to help the students with the translation. 

If you are sending students, please indicate the number and names of students for each division by filling out the registration form. If you have any trouble with the form, please feel free to email me at tvaronos@nightingale.org. We ask that you limit your registration to three students per level (thus, a maximum of 15 students per school).

The different levels for this competition are:

Caesar – Division I                        Cicero – Division II                                   Ovid – Division III

Vergil – Division IV                       Horace – Division V

Again, please note that all divisions will have scaffolded vocabulary help, and we hope that this will encourage as many students as possible to participate.  If you are bringing students, please consider volunteering to stay and proctor one of the divisions; it will take an hour or so of your time and would be greatly appreciated.

Finally, for the health and safety of all, please note that all students and chaperones will be required to adhere to Brearley's safety guidelines. The NYCC is very excited to offer students the opportunity to participate in this friendly competition, and we sincerely hope to see you and your students at the contest on Saturday, April 23, 2022 at 12:00 pm.

 Sincerely,

Talia Varonos-Pavlopoulos

Vice-president, NYCC