This year, Japanese-language students from Wichita State competed in the annual Heart of America Japan-America Society’s Japanese Contest held March 9 at Johnson County Community College.
The Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures (MCLL) and Japanese program congratulates the winners:
- Caleb Buhler won first prize for the speech competition and second for the JLPT N5 Grammar and Vocabulary Quiz
- Quyen Tran placed first and Sheridan Peterson came in second for their Japanese-language tanka poem
- Eve Moore placed second in the culture quiz
- Julia Gonzalez won first place for her 4-panel manga
- Ricardo Castillo took first place and Sean Hall third in the English-language tanka poetry competition
The MCLL department thanks all of the students who entered and the hard work they put into their entries.