Verona High School junior Kristina DiStaso placed second in the advanced special category in the sixth Chinese Bridge U.S. High School Student Chinese Speech Contest that was held on May 21 at the University of Massachusetts Confucius Institute in Boston. DiStaso, whose speech was inspired by the debate over the book “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother”, competed against 24 high school students from across the country. The contest was sponsored by the Confucius Institute and the China National Office for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language (Hanban).
Congratulations, Kristina! Well done.