Russian Essay Contest Winners, Year 2008

Congratulations to the winners of the Ninth Annual ACTR National Post-Secondary
Russian Essay Contest!!!

In the fall semester our students participated in the Ninth Annual ACTR National Post-Secondary Russian Essay Contest competing against 723 essays submitted from 50 universities and colleges across the nation. Today we congratulate our winners whose essays passed the very strict examination by three judges in Russia. We are proud that our fist-year students swept all gold medals in competition.

Here our winners:

FIRST PLACE:
Samuel Hirst (Advanced level)
Edward Kraftmann (Beginning level)
Anne Skuza (Beginning level)
Katherine Wallace (Beginning level)

HONORABLE MENTION
Ionelia Engel (Beginning level)

Congratulations to the winners of the Second Annual Penn Russian Essay Contest!!!
Alongside the National competition, we ran our own Penn Russian essay contest and the winners are:

1st year
1st place - Matthew Richman
2nd place - George Igoe
3rd place - Amy Cheung
4th place - Andreas Gittis

2nd year Russian
1st place - Aaron Ecay
2nd place - Juvier Urbina
3rd place - Alysia Harris

3rd year
1st place - Daniel Cohen
2nd place - Chris Kemendo
3rd place - Bijan Niknam
4th place - Angenette Meaney

4th year
1st place - Maki Shibata
2nd place - Sam Yankovoy
3rd place - Kevin Lafferty