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From http://www.utm.utoronto.ca/~aati/contest/highschool_contest.html

The National American Association of Teachers of Italian (AATI) High School Contest Examinations will be mailed February 24 and will be held will be held during the week of March 3-14, 2014. This contest serves many purposes:

 it assesses language learning
 it evaluates the effectiveness of Italian curricula
 it increases the enrollment in Italian
 prepare students for the AP Italian Language and Culture Exam
 it rewards excellence in Italian (monetary prizes and National Honorable Mention)
 it allows students to become recipients of the Società Onoraria Italica scholarships. This year SOI will offer $1,200 dollars. Twenty-four (24) students from the National Honorable Mention List will be selected by the exam committee and each student will receive a monetary award of $50. The twenty-four recipients will be selected using a lottery system.
 it prepares students to take the SAT II in Italian

For more information and to register, go to http://www.utm.utoronto.ca/~aati/contest/highschool_contest.html or http://www.utm.utoronto.ca/~aati/documents/high_school/high_school.pdf