Villa Madonna 8^th grader Rachel Paxton took first place in French Costume at the state level foreign language festival held May 10 in Lexington.  She completed a high school level French 1 class this year.  After researching historic French costumes and the life of Empress Josephine, Rachel re-created one of Josephine’s dresses, sewing it herself.  She is the daughter of Karen and Graham Paxton, of Burlington.

In other state language festival results, VMA freshman Hannah Knochelmann placed 1^st in French reading proficiency and 3^rd in French listening proficiency, and junior Conrad Kresge was 1^st in the Latin project category.  Magdalena Wailzer earned 2^nd place in French listening proficiency.  Corinne Martin was 2^nd and Amy Kreutzer 3^rd in Spanish reading proficiency, Sarahmarie Specht-Bird captured 3^rd and Monica Pence 5th in Spanish writing proficiency, Erin Deye was 8th in Spanish Art.