Palmer Trinity School's (PTS) Spanish team, Los Halcones, in English the falcons, took first place in this year’s Florida State Spanish Conference held on March 9–11 at the Wyndham Orlando Resort. The three-day academic competition for students studying Spanish included impromptu speeches,poetry declamation, and drama presentations as well as non-academic entertainment competitions including vocal, dance and instrumental.
PTS students competed in Division II for teams with 30 percent or more of students having in-depth exposure to Spanish outside the classroom. As a team, PTS won the first-place trophy in categories 1A, 2A, 3A, and 4A. In addition, every student on the team scored "sobresalientes" — the highest possible score in the competition— in both the impromptu speech and poetry categories.
Six PTS poetry contestants also earned their individual sobresaliente trophies: Gabriela Benedetti, Mario Rodriguez, Gabriela López, Rodrigo Santander, María Angélica Álvarez and Arturo Álvarez.
Palmer Trinity’s drama team, including Anastasia D´Agostini, Magdalena Bolinaga, Ana Zalles, Andrés Álvarez-Paul and Pedro Negrón, also earned superior ribbons on their performance.
(L-R): Miguel Sierra, Mateo Nasse, Mario Rodríguez
Back row from left to right: Antonio Medone, Mateo Nasse, Mario Rodríguez, Andrés Álvarez-Paul, Pedro Negrón, Arturo Álvarez and Rodrigo Santander.
Middle row: Magdalena Bolinaga, Ornella Libi, Gabriela Benedetti, María Angélica Álvarez, Julia Brand, Ana Zalles, Gabriela López, Anastasia D´Agostini.
Front: Teachers Carlos Garcés, María Trinidad Rodríguez-Rittenhouse and Julio Carassou.
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