Outreach & FLAS Coordinator
European Union Center 
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Tel. +1 217.244.5648

Are you a high school student who studies Polish and/or is a heritage speaker of Polish? If so, consider participating in the fourth annual Illinois High School Translation Competition, organized by the European Union Center at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign! Participants in the Polish-English division will translate an 800-word excerpt from an interview from Polish into English. This competition aims to promote the study of modern languages and to provide high school students with an opportunity to get hands-on experience in translation.

All students who are enrolled in a high school in the state of Illinois are eligible to participate. Home-schooled students who reside in Illinois are also eligible to participate. The competition will be judged by university faculty and instructors who have native knowledge of the target languages and who have experience with translation. For each language division there will be one winner and up to two honorable mentions, up to the discretion of the judges. Winners and honorable mentions will receive a prize and a certificate, and they will be recognized at an award ceremony in Chicago in December 2024.

To participate, please register here: https://forms.illinois.edu/sec/169703375. The deadline to send in submissions is Tuesday, October 15 at 11:59 P.M. CDT, so register early to have more time to work on your translation! Please see here (https://go.illinois.edu/TranslationCompetition) for more details, and email eucenter@illinois.edu with any questions.