Spectacular Achievements by Gunn Students -
Languages - French - 100 Gunn students scored in the upper 80th percentile of the National French Exam. Several Gunn students achieved honors: Emily Aiken, Vicky Sun, Angela Chen, Angeliki Ionnidis, Emma Marriott, Demetri Nicolaou, Angela Chen, Nabil Hamade, Devyani Bhadkamkar, and Varun Bhadkamkar. In the National German Exam, 15 Gunn students won gold medals, 5 silver medals, and 9 bronze medals. The National Spanish Exam garnered Gunn students 50 gold medals, 70 silver and 47 bronze.
Music Program - Gunn’s Orchestra and Chamber Orchestra both received Unanimous Superior ratings at the California Music Education Association’s Orchestra Festival May 4. All Gunn’s instrumental music ensembles (bands, orchestras and jazz) received the highest honors at CMEA Festivals this year. Gunn remains one of the few California schools to achieve this honor.
National History Day competition - 14 Gunn students placed or won their categories in the Santa Clara countycompetition and advanced to the California State History Finals competition held in Riverside in March - Jessica Sheng, Emily S. Wang, Gavin Baker, Anna Dang, Aaron Miner, Erica Watkins, Olivia Zunino, Annie Hamburgen, Francesca Macrae, Tahra Knudsen, Maya Rotman, Anton Oyung, Jack Jaffe, and Lukas Dorward. Emily S. Wang won the award for “Best in County and advanced to the National Competition.
Oracle - Gunn’s newspaper, The Oracle, earned first place for General Excellence in the Peninsula Press Club’s journalism contest. Winning awards for their reporting were Cooper Aspegren, Jean Wang, Amrita Moitra, Ashley Ngu and Wendy Qiu.
Gunn Robotics - The Gunn Robotics Team got six straight wins at the FIRST Robotics Championship in St. Louis, but narrowly missed the Elimination rounds. Gunn won the National animation award for the second year running. Way to go!!
English - Juniors Roya Huang and Amy Creasey won the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) awards for superior writing. A total of 1,107 juniors were nominated nationwide to participate in the 2012 program, and 274 were chosen as outstanding writers.
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