Addison Trail junior earns Honorable Mention in statewide translation competition

Addison Trail is proud to announce junior Gabriela Carpenter (pictured at right) has been named as an award recipient in the European Union Center's 2023-24 Illinois High School Translation Competition.

According to http://tinyurl.com/3db6npj4, "50 students from 30 schools in Illinois participated in the competition and translated an advanced-level text from Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Polish, Swedish, or Ukrainian into English." The winners were recognized during a ceremony on Dec. 8 at the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago.

The Illinois High School Translation Competition aims to promote the study of less-commonly taught languages and to provide high school students with hands-on experience in translation.

Carpenter participated in the Polish-English Division and earned an Honorable Mention, which she also received in 2021. This year, she translated an excerpt from "Kwiat kalafiora" by Malgorzata Musierowicz.