NATIONALS RECAP
out and be with friends. Even if you don’t know any-
one at NJCL Convention, you’ll make friends that will
The National Junior Classical League Convention was last for a lifetime. I would encourage you to attend
held this past summer at Indiana University in Bloom- the 2017 NJCL Convention in Troy, Alabama at Troy
ington, Indiana. Summit brought sixteen students and University. There’s nothing quite like it.
one Mr. Larry Dean to the Convention, with a group
ranging from first-year attendees to Tullus Dean who Nationals Rhyme
basically has attended Convention for all of his teen-
By: Conrad Coldiron ‘18
age life.
By: Joseph Delamerced ‘18
The NJCL Convention is like no other. It’s an event
you yourself have to attend to understand. The Sum-
mit Latin Club, firstly, won. We won big. But that’s
not what you’re really wondering, is it? You’re won-
dering: “What do you do there?” And I already know
what answer you’re expecting: “We take a lot of tests
and we submit a lot of projects [and we’re just a
bunch of nerds].” And that’s not a wrong answer, but
it only holds true for a very small percentage of the
people who attend. The NJCL Convention is home to
the academics and the artists and the orators, but it’s
a place that’s, most importantly, filled with loving
people. I would go as far to say that 80% of the time
at NJCL Convention, you are bonding with friends,
both new and old.
Besides winning (a lot), the Sum-
mit Latin Club spent most of its
time doing so many other things.
We worked on writing cheers
loosely related to farms and gold.
We worked on our navigation
skills, attempting to find a cafete-
ria that one person may or may
not have not been able to go to
because he was too afraid to get
lost again. We worked on our In-
stagram caption skills as we creat-
ed our sick Instagram account
(#followback @scdlatin). And between all that
“work,” there was so much time to just hang
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National convention is a place of new experi-
ences
One day you're here, the next you’re there
Running up and down all the stairs
IU's campus was way too much to handle
Wish I could have rode a Roman candle
Making new friends was nice and neat
And everything else was super sweet
IU I see you but it's hard to see you go
So I see U
Students from the Ohio delegation at nationals
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