Forty-five ARHS students joined hundreds of other Latin students from Western Massachusetts at Mount Holyoke College on Friday, January 15 for Pioneer Valley Classics Day.  Students participated in workshops on topics ranging from gladiators to graffiti and museum tours as well as competitions.  Amherst students won the following recognitions.

• Oral Interpretation: Advanced Prose: The Opening of Cicero’s First Oration Against Catiline
  1st Ben Jackson 2nd Akshat Dhanker
  Latin 2: Caesar’s Eagle Bearer Sets an Example
  3rd Zeke Ash
• Art: Sculpture 1st Shannon Lambert, 2nd Neosha Narayanan
  Mosaic 2nd Catherine Larson
  Painting 2nd Catalina Yang
• Certamen
  Level 2 2nd Place: Caleb Ireland, Adira Cohen, Zeke Ash, Catalina Yang Advanced 1st Place: Brody Lynch, Dennis Shen, Ben Gilsdorf, Jack Dinsmore 2nd Place: Stefan Kosanovic, Sasha Yakub, Ciaran Young, Sophia Fang