2025 State Convention

Information about the 2025 State Latin Convention  The Summit is committed to ensuring that all students are able to participate in this activity. If you have a concern about your family being able to pay the fee associated with this participation, please contact the Summit Support Fund Committee at supportfund@summitcds.org. The Summit is here to support you.

Apply for 1 of the 6 scholarships sponsored by the OJCL – deadline is Fri Jan 17.

How to Earn the Privilege of Going to State Convention

• quizlets for online studying for the academic tests
  • for vocab, do ‘Latin verbs’ and ‘Latin nouns’ and ‘Ecce 1 Vocabulary’
  • for Roman culture, do all the various ‘Roman Life’ ones
• study guide:  Myth – Transformations based on Ovid, summaries
• study guide:  Myth – Transformations based on Ovid, quizzes on the summaries
• study guide:  Hist/Cult – for novice & lower
• study guide:  vocab and derivatives
• quizlet, history culture from old NLEs:  https://quizlet.com/143691026/nle-all-history-and-culture-review-flash-cards/
• study guide:  list of Latin occupations

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Information for the 2024 Convention

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER ALL YOUR GRAPHIC ARTS ONLINE BY 11:59 ON THURS MARCH 7 – then print off the labels and attach them to your projects.

Fri March 8:

• wear the convention t-shirt given to you a week or two ago
• put luggage/projects in Knights Hall near the windows

Please watch this short 6 minute video by 10th grader Hana Conte about the Spirit Competition before each General Assembly!

List List of 22 students going to convention with their OJCL ID numbers to submit projects.

• Please bring a device (phone, pad, computer) to convention because the academic testing is done online.  Paper copies of the test are available, but online testing on a device is preferable.
• 2024 Summit Convention Checklist – please read, it is only 2 pages!
• perm slip for medication – it will allow the adult chaperones to administer medication to students
• Convention Program with all events for all 3 days

• Summit has won the most overall points for 10 of the past 13 years!
• For 25 consecutive years, there have been Summit students in positions of leadership at the state level:  This year, Hana Conte is the Editor, and Kori McLane is the 1^st Vice-President.
• Lisa Mays is in her 6^th year as the State Chair of Students, who mentors officers throughout the year.  And Summit alumnus Tullus Dean is in his 2^nd year as the State Chair of Technology and Convention.  And alumnus Ryan Burns in President and alumnus Wali Khan is Parliamentarian of the OSCL, the group of college students who volunteer to help run the convention.
• Students who attend once usually attend every year.  Why?  It is the great combination of fun and learning and competition!
• Go Summit Latin Go!!!

Questions?  Email Mr. Dean, or call him (513-502-0108).