Gute Nachrichen!

The 2018-2019 School year brought many successes in the CNY German studies world.

Please take a look at what we can be proud of this year!

On the secondary school level:

Generous financial Awards from the Central New York German-American Society:

CNY German American Society Senior Scholarship Winners:
Adam Wood (Onondaga Central), Rachel Rose, Calla Lewis & Nicholas Hartman (all Mexico)
and Angela Wu (Fayetteville-Manlius)

Travel Scholarships:

Lucas Gascon - FM: AATG National Exam Scholarship winner
He will spend 4 weeks in Germany this summer.

Ian Bryant - FM:  Congress-Bundestag scholarship winner.  
He will study for a year in Germany.

Daniel Popp - FM:  Goethe Institute's Award of Excellence Travel Scholarship winner.  He will spend 3 weeks this summer in Germany.

The National German Exam Awards:

48 Students in the CNY Chapter of AATG took the High School National German exam.

Below are the medal winners from Fayetteville-Manlius District:

Level 2 Exam:

Bronze Medal:

Catherine Jia, Miriam Sanzone, Terese Schmidt, Benjamin Sharples

Silver Medal:

James Hoehner, Joshua Lim, Margaret Lorraine, Nicole Smith, Ella Theoharis

Gold Medal:

Lucas Gascon, Ainsley Puc

Level 3 Exam:

Bronze Medal:

Luke Hasenwinkel, Katya Noble, Yihan Wang

Silver Medal:

Daniel Haungs

Level 4 Exam:

Bronze Medal:

Justin Jaynes, Allison Ritter, Angela Wu

Silver Medal:

Lydia Henn, Paige Pepling, Daniel Popp, Kate Scuderi

Gold Medal:

George Langenberg, Samuel Theoharis, Christopher Szidat

In the middle Schools:

Eagle Hill Middle School Fayetteville-Manlius:

The following eighth grade German students at Eagle Hill Middle School in the Fayetteville-Manlius School District are recognized for their achievement on the National German Exam.

Honorable Mention:  Jamie Utter, Gavin Botwinick, Owen Capria, Charlie Lorraine

Bronze: Kaleigh Hamilton, Michael Surowiec, Kirk Banes

Silver: Mason Weires

Gold: Clara Leak, Sophie Manna, Ruthie Taber, Alex Wu

Wellwood Middle School Fayetteville-Manlius:

The following eighth grade German students at Wellwood Middle School 

in the Fayetteville-Manlius School District are recognized for their achievement on the National German Exam.

Gold:  Hannah Kaercher, Aiden Lee, Erik Koshnicharski, Xavier Greene

Silver: Maddy Malgieri

Bronze:  Kaylene Noble

Baldwinsville Central's German department has as of this spring a GAPP Program!

Meanwhile at Syracuse University there were:

• two graduating majors (both now pursuing careers as German teachers)
• one student with a Modern Foreign Language major with German as one of their languages
• two graduating minors
• one student who will be in Germany as a Fulbright Teaching Assistant
• one student who won the Max Kade Prize for Undergrad Research for Best Research Project & Presentation
• five students who received the Max Kade Travel Award
• ten new students to join Delta Phi Alpha
• two students who conducted research for http://thefutureofmycity.org as part of the Deutschlandjahr 2019 (winners will be announced later in June)

SU's Gerlinde Ulm Sanford Award Winners: 

Kevin Quinn, the best graduating student in German

Magda Zackiewicz, the student most committed to the German Program

At SUNY Oswego:

SUNY Oswego students Momoko Ogiso (left) and Michelle DiBlasio (right)
German Academic Exchange Service (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst), or DAAD,
grants to study in Germany this summer.
(Center) Patrick Schultz of the modern languages and literatures faculty

SUNY Oswego student Michael Kaefer will continue a second year as a Fulbright Scholar in Germany, continuing to teach in Troisdorf.


Chris Byrne, also on Fulbright in Germany, will stay another year in Germany, but not to teach English. He applied for a position at Beck’s brewery in Bremen and has very good chances to be accepted.