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OES shines in 4th Bilingual Challenge Bowl
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Posted on Apr 19 2005
Oleai Elementary School took home a staggering 10 wins in the recently concluded 4th Annual Bilingual Academic Challenge Bowl held last Saturday at the Kagman Elementary School cafeteria.
Kagman Elementary School followed with seven wins and Koblerville Elementary School came next with six wins. Sixteen public schools from elementary to junior high, and high schools participated in the event.
Overall Carolinian Bilingual winners were Oleai Elementary School and Koblerville Elementary School with five wins each. Next was Kagman Elementary School with four wins, followed by Tanapag Elementary School with two wins.
Chamorro Bilingual overall winners were again Oleai Elementary School, bagging five wins, Kagman Elementary School and Tanapag Elementary School with three wins each, and Garapan Elementary School, San Vicente Elementary School, and Gregorio T. Camacho Elementary School with two wins each.
In the junior high school category, Hopwood Junior High School was the top winner.
Overall program coordinator and Carolinian itinerant teacher Patricia P. Kapileo said the competition had a good turnout.
She said the Bilingual Academic Challenge Bowl is a competition between students from all the Public School System elementary and junior high schools from 1st to 8th grades who are enrolled in the Carolinian and Chamorro Bilingual classes.
The contest posed questions in the areas of math, science, social studies, and science with emphasis on bilingual education, aligned with the bilingual standards and benchmarks framework, said Kapileo.
She said the competition also served as an assessment of the students’ knowledge in the local languages and how much they learned throughout the school year.
Kapileo said most of the students showed they were competent in the content areas, but in the bilingual education portion, the elementary level students were more knowledgeable, answering more bilingual questions correctly than their junior high school counterparts.
She said the cooperation, involvement and support of everyone such as the teachers, principals, parents, and the students made the competition an exciting and unforgettable experience.
