Monday was the Upper School Club Expo, with clubs from the newspaper to the literary magazine, to anime, juggling club, philosophy club, and the rock band club gathered in the MPR to recruit new members in the upper school. Washington Latin’s extensive variety of clubs are run by students and advised by faculty members. Clubs meet during lunch or after school and include interests, publications, hobbies, and foreign language or international policy.

Reading Specialist Ms. Lee Bey will take students once again tot he Battle of the Books, a local program with annual competitions based on reading.  The event is Sunday, October 27th,  and will focus on the titles Betty Before X, Chasing Space, For Everyone, Marley Dias Gets it Done, the Planet of Junior Brown, and Shadows of Sherwood. Areas of competition will include debate, spelling, question and answer, and art.

Washington Latin debaters performed well at the Ornstein Summer Debate Institute, competing against hundreds of children from the D.C. area. Ninth graders Jackson Lewis and D’Andre Person scored 11th overall in the varsity division. In the junior varsity division, seventh grader Brooke Robinson scored 4th overall, Ife Akinsanya scored 5th overall, and eighth grader Dami Akinsanya scored 11th overall. In the novice division seventh grader Nyko Orekoya scored 1st overall, ninth grader Omare Omatete, scored 3rd overall, and ninth grader Audrey Kim finished 7th overall. Mayowa Akinsanya finished 10th overall.  Roberson was quoted in a NY Times article about the Ornstein Summer Debate Institute.