Bethel Park High School Honors and AP German students earned 16 awards on the 66th annual National German Exam, competing against 12,000 students nationwide.
The district's students earned three gold, seven silver, one bronze and five achievement awards on the 2026 exam sponsored by the American Association of Teachers of German.
Seniors Katharine Tabler (98th percentile) and Benjamin Campbell (95th percentile), along with junior Adele Stamenov (95th percentile), received gold awards on the Level 4 exam, scoring in the 90th percentile or higher.
Campbell and Stamenov have qualified to apply for scholarships to travel and study in Germany this summer. Tabler is ineligible because she already spent her junior year living and studying in Germany on a Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange scholarship.
Silver awards on the Level 4 exam went to seniors Samuel Hoppe (86th percentile), Holly McGough (80th percentile) and Colin Finnegan (80th percentile), as well as junior Gillian Uhl (84th percentile).
Senior Christian Tabler earned a bronze award with a 74th percentile score. Juniors Sydney Miller, Reed Zeis and Zoey Roberts received achievement awards.
On the Level 3 exam, sophomores Thomas Guenther (82nd percentile), Matthew Williams (81st percentile) and Tessa Braham (81st percentile) earned silver awards. Sophomores Eliza Sterbal and Nathaniel Stewart received achievement awards.
The National German Exam tests students' proficiency in German language and cultural knowledge across multiple levels of study.