Farragut High School’s cultural heritage & foreign language classes celebrate World Culture Night 2022
About 100 students and family members turned out to celebrate Farragut High School’s
cultural heritage and foreign language classes during World Culture Night 2022
in the school’s Commons Thursday, April 7.
The event was made possible by FHS world language and art departments along with French,
German and Spanish honor societies, the Asian Culture Club and the Origami Club.
The evening started with students visiting various foreign language booths and the booth for
Flagship FIRST Robotics, which competes with other schools around the region and nation,
and the refreshments table, which featured foods from various countries.
It culminated with a program, emceed by Sophia Cook and Cathy Horwege, of raffle prizes and entertainment, which included Lucy Zhou and Ivy Zhang, who sang a Chinese song; a Ghainain drum solo by Wayne Bediako, father of student Selom Bediako; the Duhaime-Prince Igo Trombone Quartet, which included A.J. Duhaime, Alex Souther, Thinh Ho and Drew Tucker; Sumin Son and Yeon Cho singing a Korean song; Flagship Robotics members, Hayden Toon, Aaron Boehm and Pragya Nidhi demonstrating their robot; and Ivan and Niko Maldonado performing Spanish music.