Two students from The Wheatley School at the East Williston School District earned awards in the American Association of Teachers of Italian’s TikTok challenge.
The students submitted a short video, depicting their summer, and followed a series of criteria. Their videos were rated on creativity, originality, music, video elaboration and the use of Italian and cultural elements.
Sophomore Olivia Picciuca earned an award for most elaborate video, and junior Olivia DelBroccolo earned an award for most unpredictable video.
Their Italian teacher Susan Vasselman expressed how proud she was of her students for challenging themselves, embracing the Italian language and culture through the competition and using social media in a positive way that contributed to their linguistic and cultural competence.
This is the second consecutive year that students in Vasselman’s Italian program have won awards for their TikTok Challenge videos.
