Palmer Trinity School’s (PTS) Spanish team, Los Falcones (The Falcons) took first place in this year’s Florida State Spanish Conference in March at the Wyndham Orlando Resort.
The three-day academic competition for students studying Spanish included impromptu speeches, poetry declamation, and drama presentations as well as non-academic entertainment competitions including vocal, dance and instrumental.
PTS students competed in Division II for teams with 30 percent or more of students having in-depth exposure to Spanish outside the classroom. As a team, PTS won the first-place trophy in categories 1A, 2A, 3A, and 4A. In addition, every student on the team scored “sobresalientes” — the highest possible score in the competition — in both the impromptu speech and poetry categories.
Six PTS poetry contestants also earned their individual sobresaliente trophies: Gabriela Benedetti, Mario Rodriguez, Gabriela López, Rodrigo Santander, María Angélica Álvarez and Arturo Álvarez.
Palmer Trinity’s drama team, including Anastasia D´Agostini, Magdalena Bolinaga, Ana Zalles, Andrés Álvarez-Paul and Pedro Negrón, also earned superior ribbons on their performance.
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