17 Neuqua Valley High School students earned top marks in the 2025 National German Exam for High School Students.

Grace Wittry, sophomore, and Elliott Berck, junior, earned a “Goldurkunde” or gold medal for scoring in the 90th to 99th percentile nationwide on the exam.          
                
Sophomores Fabiola Engelhard, Harshit Jain, Shlok Jaiswal, and Shaun Pais and junior Robert Yang         earned a “Silberurkunde”, or silver medal for scoring in the 80th to 89th percentile nationwide on the exam.

Sophomore Ansh Guarani and junior Omjas Tripathi earned a “Bronzeurkunde”, or bronze medal for scoring in the 70th to 79th percentile nationwide on the exam.

Sophomores Konstandinos Hyskolli, Daniel Lee, Samuel Mahalla, and Nicholas Stasi, and juniors Zander Coe, Anna Schwaegler and Lorraine Wieshuber earned honorable recognition for their scores.

The National German Exam or NGE is administered each year to more than 15,000 high school students of German. The NGE, now in it’s 65th year, provides individual diagnostic feedback, rewards students through an extensive regional and national prize program, and creates a sense of accomplishment.  Exam results provide teachers a means of comparing students in all regions of the country, as well as programmatic data to help inform curricular decisions. 30 Neuqua Valley German Students in Levels 2, 3, and AP participated in the exam this year.

The NGE is sponsored by the American Association of Teachers of German, or AATG.  Founded in 1926, the AATG represents German teachers at all levels of instruction.  The AATG is dedicated to advancing and improving the teaching of language, literature, and culture of the German-speaking countries.