Students from Shelbyville High School will be among 237 high school and college Latin students who will attend the Indiana Junior Classical Convention today and Saturday at Indiana University in Bloomington.

Students will participate in academic, creative arts and graphic arts contests, and will compete in certamen, a quiz-bowl like competition, publicity and membership contests. The top school in both the small-chapter and large-chapter divisions will earn the overall sweepstakes awards while scholarships will be awarded to two students.

The students will participate in general assemblies and attend a Roman banquet dressed in traditional Roman garb.

High school students and sponsors attending will represent the following schools: Bishop Chatard, Fort Wayne Canterbury, Cardinal Ritter, Classical Studies of Indianapolis, Crown Point, Herron, Herron-Riverside, Homestead, North Central, Evansville Reitz, Seven Oaks Classical School, Shelbyville, St. Richard’s Episcopal, Guerin Catholic, Stanley Clark School, Terre Haute South, and The Master’s Study.

Shelbyville won first place overall sweepstakes in the small school division in 2022.

Local students attending are Anna Ballast, Ev(alyn) Barnum, Olivia Bowman, Isabella Bradburn, Sydney Brown, Lilly Conners, Cora Flynn, Leila Patrick, Sharielis Rodriguez, Andrea Rosales, Madelyn Scott and Addysyn Wettrick.

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