Upload pix of projects and of people at convention here!
Article with pix about the 2026 Convention
Complete results for all contests and Summit students at 2026 Convention
Videos from 2026 OJCL Convention
- Summit alumnus Wali Khan gives the opening remarks at the Sat General Assembly
- Spirit before Sun General Assembly
- the top 15 point winners (out of 348 students) are announced
- Novice certamen winners are announced
- Emma bringing back the Certamen Championship trophy & medals
- Emma and Evelyn doing the Summit Roll Call
- Caroline’s introduction for candidate Manuel
- Manuel’s candidate speech at the General Assembly
- Kyan’s candidate speech at the General Assembly
- Manuel answering a question about veggies at Meet the Candidates
- Summit Commercial Contest (theme is Archimedes) – earned a 1st tier Superior Rating, edited by Hana Conte
- Summit Music Video Contest (theme is superlative adjectives) – earned a 2nd tier Excellent Rating, edited by Hana Conte
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stuff from the 2026 OJCL Convention
PARENTS:
- Parents, please fill out this waiver required by the OJCL. You must include your child’s email. Once you complete the form, it will auto-send to your child for completion.
- The Summit permission slip is a Portal form. Both parents and students need to sign into the Portal and sign the form.
- perm slip for medication – it will allow the adult chaperones to administer medication to students
OJCL’s Got Talent! at the State Convention!
- The talent at the Ohio Junior Classical league convention is amazing. Friday night auditions are 10:30-11:45, and Saturday’s show is 9:30-11:00 PM. Your acts should be school and JCL appropriate. Everyone is looking forward to your participation!
- Plan on limiting your audition to 2 minutes and if you perform in the show, the performance may be up to 4 minutes. The judges may choose to excuse you during the performance if necessary (no hard feelings, we want to protect you, the student).
- We plan to have a microphone and cd player for accompaniment. Music should be in cd format for ease of presentation.
- Click here to sign up for an audition slot!
2026 Abbreviated Schedule for Convention!
List of students going to convention with their OJCL number
types of work to earn a spot at 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
Various Study Guides and Lists and Outlines: how to use these? make a quizlet, create certamen questions, make flashcards!!!
- myth: Myth – Transformations based on Ovid, summaries
- myth: Myth – Transformations based on Ovid, quizzes on the summaries
- history/culture: Hist/Cult – for novice & lower
- history/culture: Roman Civ/Hist packet
- history/culture: another Roman Civ/Hist packet
- history: detailed Rom Hist packet by Alan Zhang
- quizlet, history culture from old NLEs: https://quizlet.com/143691026/nle-all-history-and-culture-review-flash-cards/
- vocab: list of Latin occupations
- vocab: words easily confused
- vocab: vocab and derivatives
- vocab: list of common words, Latin 1 and 2
- Latin literature: brief study guide for MSers
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STUFF FROM THE 2025 CONVENTION!!
Article about 2025 State Championship at Latin Convention
Complete List of Awards from 2025 Latin Convention
Google Drive with pictures from convention and pictures of winning student projects
Summit Latin Club President Hana Conte edited the 2 club projects. Her Commercial earned a Best of Show!!
Videos from Convention:
Roll Call with Kyan and Kyndall
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Information about the 2025 Latin Convention
PARENTS:
- Please sign this online permission slip. This is required by the OJCL, the organization that runs convention. You must include your child’s email, and it will then forward the document to them to sign their part of the online permission slip.
- A CHANGE: The Summit permission slip is now a Portal form. Both parents and students need to sign into the Portal. I apologize to parents/students who already filled out the other form, but everything now is done through Portal forms. (mea culpa)
- perm slip for medication – it will allow the adult chaperones to administer medication to students
The deadline to register all Art Projects is 11:59 pm on Mon March 3. Here is the link to register. Double check with me or Ms. Mays about the correct category for your project. HOW ABOUT 1 MORE PROJECT! TRY THE ILLUSTRATED QUOTE!
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.
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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
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
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Summit has won the most overall points for 10 of the past 13 years!
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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 1st Vice-President.
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Lisa Mays is in her 6th year as the State Chair of Students, who mentors officers throughout the year. And Summit alumnus Tullus Dean is in his 2nd 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.
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Students who attend once usually attend every year. Why? It is the great combination of fun and learning and competition!
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Go Summit Latin Go!!!
Questions? Email Mr. Dean, or call him (513-502-0108).