MassJCL hosted Kickoff & Praetoria this year on October 29th at Winchester High School! Thanks to the help of Winchester JCL, the reigning State Convention trophy winners, attendees were able to participate in Street Certamen, engage in gladiator games or worm races, and enter marshmallow catapult and costume contests. State officers also ran Praetoria workshops to inform attendees about the various roles, responsibilities, and opportunities of state and local board offices (the slides to these presentations are linked at the bottom of this page).

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Street Certamen (Morning) Results:

3rd: Team Catullus

2nd: Team Ovid

1st: Team Caesar

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Street Certamen (Afternoon) Results:

3rd: Team Aeneas

2nd: Team Hercules

1st: Team Achilles

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Overall Highest-Scoring Street Certamen Team: Team Achilles

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Large Marshmallow Catapult Contest Results:

*All participating chapters gained overall school score points, which contribute to the State Trophy award at State Convention in the spring.

3rd: Mistchnache, Boston Latin Academy

2nd: Liam, Boston Latin Academy

1st: Athena, Boston Latin Academy

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Small Marshmallow Catapult Contest Results:

*All participating chapters gained overall school score points, which contribute to the State Trophy award at State Convention in the spring.

3rd: Sai, Woburn.

2nd: Jessica, Woburn

1st: Kyle, Winchester

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Worm Race Contest Results:

3rd: Emily, Sai, and Jess from Woburn

2nd: Jun, Patrick, and Aleksa from Boston Latin School

1st: Brian, Biya, and Andrew from Boston Latin School

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Praetoria Room 1- Led by the President, Parliamentarian, Secretary

Praetoria Room 2 - Led by the 1st VP, 2nd VP, Treasurer

Praetoria Room 3 - Led by the Historian, Editor, Technical Coordinator