The Buzzer Race: Recent Episodes
Nikhil Ranjan, Alan Zhang, Kyle Jain, Teddy Trakas, and Danny Nguyen
Certamen is a Latin quiz-bowl style game where students across the country compete to demonstrate their knowledge in several classical fields, including the Latin language, Roman history and culture, Greco-Roman mythology, Latin literature, and more. In The Buzzer Race, we listen to the stories of the stalwarts of the scene--current competitors, former players, coaches, writers, and others--to learn about their perspective on Certamen, to get to know them as people beyond their achievements, and to delve into what makes this game so special.
Cover art by Karen Dong & Graydon Schulze-Kalt.
In this episode, we interview former Virginia Certamen coach and current teacher at Yorktown High School in Virginia Ian Hochberg.
In this episode, we interview former captain of the DCJCL Advanced Certamen team Jonas Howard.
In this episode, we interview current Massachusetts Advanced Certamen Coach and teacher at Boston Latin School Michael Howard.
In this episode, we interview current NJCL Certamen Chair and teacher at St. Andrew's Episcopal Jennie Luongo.
In this episode, we interview the author of Connor Harrison's History Notes, Connor Harrison.
In this episode, we interview captain of the 2016 NJCL advanced championship team and current writer Michael Kearney.
In this episode, we interview the captain of California's 2020 NJCL Advanced Certamen team, Issy Arroyo.
In this inaugural episode, we interview 2020 NJCL Advanced Certamen champion and MVP Dante Minutillo.
In this episode, we introduce ourselves and explain the background and purpose of The Buzzer Race.