NOIL AATG Awards Ceremony
2017
Sixty-first Annual AATG Student Awards Ceremony Program
Sunday, April 30, 2017 2:00 p.m.
College of DuPage, SRC Room 2000
425 Fawell Boulevard, Glen Ellyn, IL 60137
Keynote Speakers Regan Penn, Jakob Myers, Martin Bolotin
Teacher Recognitions
Student Recognitions
Presentation of Awards Presentation of 2017 Study Trip Winners
Announcers Kathy Betterman &Marianne Zemil
Testing & Awards Co-chairs
Social Time
Drinks and snacks are offered in the back. Please enjoy.
Award Recipients
Teacher Recognitions
Teachers of Northern Illinois AATG See attached list of Teachers
Klett-Langenscheidt Award Jonathan Justice, Naperville North H.S.
Outstanding German Educator Award of Excellence Anna Hog, Oswego East H.S.
Award Recipients
Student Recognitions
Students who placed in the top 90th percentile. Please middle column.
NOIIL AATG German Language Schools
DANK Chicago Northern Suburbs
Sabine Woerner, Trudy Hoyer, Margaret Plank, Silvia Schmid
Level 2: Hannah Brazier, Heide Brazier, Emma Radons, Jelte Schubert, Maximillian Thuswaldner
Level 3: Luke Whittleton
Level 4: Louisa Hagen, Karina Palffy, Marlene Schaff, Suntje Schubert
German Language School of Naperville
Angela Jostlein
Level 2: Audrey Hjerpe, Lauren Wittry
Level 3: Salome Fogleman
Level 4: Leoni Reilly, Theo Roelofs
Wochenendschule der Donauschwaben
Eva-Maria Rill
Level 2: Eva Ruterschmidt, Kira Zielinski
NOILAATG Collegiate Award of Excellence Sponsored by Northern Illinois AATG
North Central College: Alexandria Bassett (nominated by Gregory Wolf)
Northern Illlinois University: Thomas Boers (nominated by Jessamine Cooke-Plagwitz)
Northwestern University: Sarah Priscella Lee (nominated by Ingrid Zeller)
University of Illinois at Chicago: Jasmina Ejupovic (nominated by Patrick Fortmann)
Participants in the Regional Interviews
Hunter Acuff, Cameron Birtcher, Alexander Booher, Max Bowman, Kevin Chen, Grant Finnegan, Gustas Gladstein, Anna Gundlach, Natalie Hill, Alexis Holliday, Katherine Hovland, Jeremy Jung, Alexander Killips, Rebecca Lau, Katherine Nocerino, Regan Penn, Oliver Ratts, Vieniq Romero, Aistis Sadauskas, Collin Turley, Sarah Wastek
Klett-Langenscheidt Award Sponsored by Klett-Langenscheidt
Katherine Nocerino, Benet Academy
Concordia Language Villages Stipend Sponsored by Swiss Benevolent Society/CLV
Anna Gundlach , Lakes Community H.S.
Presentation of 2017 Study Trip Nominees
Sponsored by National AATG & Pädagogischer Austauschdienst
Graduating Senior Nominee: Collin Turley, Vernon Hills H.S
Non-senior nominee & Winner Natalie Hill, Antioch Community H.S.
Non-senior nominee & Winner Rebecca Lau, Planfield North H.S.
Award Recipients
Antioch Community High School
Danielle Katz, Chad Rusk
Level 2: Natalie Hill, Marja Lailey, Vincent Roskowiak, Kylie Steuer
Level 4: Stanley Liu, Regan Penn
Barrington High School
Amy Wasil
Level 2: Isabella Lebovic, Wyatt Stone
Level 3: Max Bowman, Daniel Perille
Level 4: Ishaan Sengal
Benet Academy
Lynette Sterner
Level 2: Natalie Krammer, Cassidy Latchford
Level 3: Collin Dannheim, Dalva Daulys, John Grunenwald, Anne Hart, Katherine Hovland, Ronan McCarter, Anna Svab
Level 4: Katherine Nocerino
Downers Grove North High School
Gunde Iwersen-Burritt
Level 2: Georgi Kiricov, Aistis Sadauskas, Erin Slattery
Level 3: Kaylee McCarthy, Troy McDonald-Shumaker
Downers Grove South High School
Sarah Moreno, Janet Stock
Level 3: Maximilian Schmidt-Bailey, Brian Williams
Level 4: Sarah Mueller, Gerda Zasytyte
Fenwick High School
Miglena Nikolova
Level 2: Michelle Eckhoff, Conor Kotwasinski
Level 3: Claire Gatermann
Level 4: Elia Gatermann
William Fremd High School
Natalie Soto
Level 3: Kevin Chen
Geneva Communiy High School
Rene Swidenbank, Karen Kosog
Level 2: Jack Brandt, Matthew Granquist, Daniel Schmeda
Hinsdale Central High School
Johanna Jurgens
Level 2: Daren Chen, Charlie Otto
Level 3: Karla Schueler, David Thormodsgard
Level 4: Matthew Nevling, Kaja Schueler
Hinsdale South High School
Cherie Lodl
Level 2: Vieniq Romero, GabriellaTsarouhis
Illiana Christian High School
Luke Fennema
Level 2: Erin Yorkman
Illinois Mathematics & Science Academy
Agnieszka Michalak
Level 2: Adhav Arulanandan, Justin Baldridge, Katherine Bezugla, Cameron Birtcher, Ken Brudnak, Maelee Chen, Parth Dhanyi, Jaelyn Evans, William Fiedler, Gregory Fernandes, Audrey Gallier, Matthew Kotz, Roy Neil, Gedi Njoya, Kaleigh O'Brien, Abinaya Ramakrishnan, Zoe Schmidt
Level 3: Nina Denne, Natasia Fafara, Grant Finnegan, Addison Herr, Joseph Hutter, Raghuram Koganti, Charles Kuch, Jan Mangulabnan, Daniel Marten, Kirill Nagaitsev, Joseph Palakeel, Akash Palani, Raghuram Koganti, Shivani Sharma, Peijing Xu, Samuel Zelman
Lakes Community High School
Melissa Haines
Level 2: Megan Fish, Anna Gundlach
Level 3: Collin Feustel, Anna Wallenfang
Libertyville High School
Alex Kerth, Heidi Lechner
Level 2: Tate Constable, Christopher Fischer, Jacob Kemp, Erik LaRoi
Level 3: Anna Burns, Demi Glusic, Alice Hubbard
Level 4: Christopher Martin
Lincoln-Way East High School
Amy Ficarello
Level 3: Christopher Patterson, Hunter Sweeney
Lockport Township High School
Drew Reaves
Level 3: Caitlyn Krueger, Halley Price
Level 4: Emmett Chan
Maine South High School
Margaret Wolf
Level 3: Mariya Bendus
Metea Valley High School
Elizabeth Hagen
Level 2: Jeremy Jung, Kyle Mathison, Joey Sherrill
Level 3: Delaney Biegelmann
Naperville Central High School
Jackson Howenstine
Level 2: Megan Coen, Lauren Colbert, Juliana Galo, William Kelsey
Level 3: Shane Collins, Charles Howenstine, Alexander Killips
Naperville North High School
Jonathan Justice, Jackson Howenstine
Level 2: Collin Carter, Mikayla Giehler, Aidan Handa, Stephan Jansen Van Vuuren, John Jaworski, Kenneth Koepcke, Caroline Schodde
Level 3: Andrew Cummings, Aleksander Cwalina, Jacob Fisher, Melanie Kilchherr, Jillian Trafton, Sarah Wastek
Level 4: Jakob Myers
Neuqua Valley High School
Karen Calvert, Sara Wolfersberger
Level 2: Freddie Gadbaw, Aaditya Nandakumar, Eric Xu
Level 3: Peter Jin
New Trier High School
Venera Stabinsky, Katja Steen
Level 2: Isabella Allada, Maggie Cao, Alexander Glueck, Arun Gopala, Simon Groenedijk,Trevin Hernandez, Robert Phillips, Henry Plante, Evan Prendergast, Olivia Prendergast, Oliver Ratts, Evan Rittner, Holden Schinzer, Anna Shah, Markus Tam, Sabrina Tossing, Ekaterina Tsytsarina, Jacob Vile, Nicholas Woehrle
Level 3: Abigail Baran, Jeremy D'Angelo, Jared Hoffman, Alexis Holliday, John Papas Dennerline, Florian Vining
Level 4: Benjamin Parkhill, Ethan Paul, Piper Phillips, Julia Vining
Oak Park-River Forest High School
Liliana Boyce, Janet Stock
Level 2: Cassandra Prokopowicz
Level 3: Daniel Gerasimov, Josephine Huss, Christian Steinhofer
Level 4: Marcell Gyongy, Mia Stella
Oswego East High School
Anna Hog
Level 2: Hunter Acuff, Viktoria Ulman
Plainfield North High School
Jennifer Knop
Level 3: Rebecca Lau
Riverside Brookfield High School
Patricia Reaves
Level 2: Evan Dunbar, Gustas Gladstein, Jonah Rath
University of Chicago Laboratory School
Marianne Zemil
Level 2: Thomas Hsee, Olivia Jarard, Eva Massey, Nicholas Merchant, Whitney Merkle, Jamison Miller, Jacob Posner, Henry Sowerby, Alec Wyers, Grace Zhang
Level 3: Clara Dandy, Giacomo Glotzer, John Grissom, Olivia Issa, Bailey Litwin, Thank Nguyen Ngo, Anna Peterson, Camille Rehkemper, Sam Rezaei, Fionn Stamataky, Joshua Ulane
Level 4: Alice Carlstrom, Elsa Erling, Clyde Schwab, Charles Sowerby
Vernon Hills High School
Alex Kerth
Level 2: Mikhail Alenichev, Adam Ciemierzynski, hillip Gokhman, Eka Mamulashvili
Level 3: Alexander Booher, Margaret Kowzon
Level 4: Martin Bolotin, Collin Turley
Acknowledgments
Grateful appreciation to our sponsors & supporters
Café Selmarie
4729 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago, IL 60625 (773) 989-5595
Chicago Brauhaus Restaurant
4732 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago, IL 60625 (773) 784-4444
Concordia Language Villages
Bemidji, Minnesota
International Fashions by Ingrid
4714 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago, IL 60625 (773) 878-8382
Haribo of America
9500 W Bryn Mawr Ave #700, Rosemont, IL 60018 (847)-260--0580
Lutz’s Bakery
2458 W Montrose Ave, Chicago, IL 60618 (773) 478-7785
Schnitzel Platz
729 North Ave, Glendale Heights, IL 60139 (630) 942-9900
Klett-Langenscheidt Publishers
Klett- Langenscheidt Awards
Swiss Benevolent Society
Concordia Language Villages Stipend
Westin Hotel
900 N. Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611 (312) 943-7200
Northern Illinois Chapter, AATG
American Association of Teachers of German
2017 Study Trips
Goethe-Institut, German Information Center and German Consulate