2011 Medusa Mythology Examination
Achievement Award Winners

The Medusa Mythology Exam Committee is proud to present the winners in its 2011 Achievement Award Program.  Achievement Award winners were required to submit an essay of not more than 450 words that addressed the topic, “Describe a conflict between an ‘Old School Olympian’ and a younger generation Olympian.”  A student’s overall score in the competition included essay points, teacher recommendation, and Medusa test score.

 Congratulations to the 2011 Achievement Awards Winners:

$750 Minerva Award – Carolyn Manion, Classical Cottage School, Winchester, VA
          (Susan Schearer, Teacher)

$550 Apollo Award – Meghan Felder, Ridgewood High School, Ridgewood, NJ
          (Catherine Venturini, Teacher)

$550 Apollo Award – David Jaffe, Northside College Prepatory High School, Chicago, IL  
          (Will Nifong, Teacher)

$300 Nike Award – Evan Draim, St. Stephens and St. Agnes School, Alexandria, VA  
          (Ian Hochberg, Teacher)                          

$100 Musa Award – Anudeep Neelam, Northview High School, Duluth, GA
          (Neal David, Teacher)

$100 Musa Award – Claire Niemann, St. Stephens and St. Agnes School, Alexandria, VA
          (Ian Hochberg, Teacher)

$100 Musa Award – Madaline Shea, homeschool in Latin and Classics, Putman, CT
          (Lorel Shea, Teacher)

$100 Musa Award – Erika Weiskopf, homeschool in Latin and Classics, Fairfax, VA
          (Adam Williams, Teacher)

 $100 Orpheus Award- Annabel Barry, Pequot Homeschool, Southport, CT
          (Alison Barry, teacher)

Each essay was read by a committee of classicists and creative writing instructors who scored it without seeing any information that could identify the writer or knowing what scores the other committee members had given it. 

Copies of the top essays (which were not necessarily written by the students with the highest overall scores) will be posted on the website later this summer. They appear as the students wrote them; we have not edited them for content or mechanics.  All essays are reprinted with the permission of their respective authors.