{"id":11469,"date":"2012-04-25T00:37:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-25T00:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newspaper.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=11469"},"modified":"2012-04-25T00:37:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T00:37:00","slug":"a-big-success-for-gca-forensics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/a-big-success-for-gca-forensics\/","title":{"rendered":"A big success for GCA forensics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-width: 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/imgupload\/issx9999ns118358.jpg\" alt=\"Grace Christian Academy's PGFC regional winners have their picture taken inside the GCA campus. (Contributed Photo)\" width=\"100\" height=\"66\" border=\"0\" \/>\u00a0Grace Christian Academy students finished with a big success in the recently concluded forensic arts competitions in all divisions.<\/p>\n<p>Fourteen GCA kindergarten to 5th grade competitors garnered 14 major awards in the Primary Grades Forensic Conference. Clerisse Dacumos, who won first place in Impromptu Speaking, will represent GCA in the PGFC special presentation at the end of the school year.<\/p>\n<p>For the National Junior Forensic League, eight students won 12 major awards. GCA got most of the NJFL gold medals, qualifying four students who won first place in five different events to represent the CNMI in the NJFL national competition. Angela Cruz and Rebekah Kim will compete for Duo Interpretation, Angela Cruz for Dramatic Interpretation, Yujin Lee for Poetry Reading, and Asako Camacho for Prose Reading.<\/p>\n<p>In the high school division, two National Forensic League students will represent the CNMI in the national competition. Gold medalists Terence Ho will compete for Impromptu Speech and Angela Mamaril will do Original Oratory. All of the six GCA NJFL and NFL students will join the CNMI team in going to Indianapolis, Indiana, on June 10-17 this year for the national competition.<\/p>\n<p>Organized by the National Forensic Board and supported by the CNMI Public School System, the PGFC, NJFL, and NFL competitions encourage public and private school students to participate in and become proficient in the forensic arts: reading, debate, public speaking, and interpretations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PGFC K-5TH GRADE<\/p>\n<p>Impromptu Speaking<\/strong><br \/>\nClerisse Dacumos, 1st Place<br \/>\nKei Lizama, 2nd Place<br \/>\nChristina Kim, 3rd Place<br \/>\nJada Buniag, 5th Place<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dramatic Interpretation\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nJuruel Magtalas, 3rd Place<br \/>\nLyssa Steele, 4th Place<br \/>\nJulianna Magtalas, 5th Place<\/p>\n<p><strong>Humorous Interpretation\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nEunice Pagaduan, 5th Place<\/p>\n<p><strong>Choral Speaking\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nChelsea Henson, 5th Place<br \/>\nBriston Jones, 5th Place<br \/>\nKatelyn Mafnas, 5th Place<br \/>\nEunice Pagaduan, 5th Place<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\n3-5 Division<\/p>\n<p>Impromptu Speaking\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nJoshua Pajarillaga, 2nd Place<br \/>\nMarcelo Masilungan Jr., 3rd Place<br \/>\nJim Michael Ham, 4th Place<\/p>\n<p><strong>Duo Interpretation\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nRiley Anne Buenaventura, 2nd Place<br \/>\nTae Yong Kim, 2nd Place<br \/>\nEsther Kim, 4th Place<br \/>\nCalia Lieto, 4th Place<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nNJFL 6TH-8TH GRADE<\/p>\n<p>Duo Interpretation\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nRebekah Kim, 1st Place<br \/>\nAngela Cruz, 1st Place<br \/>\nDanica Canedo, 2nd Place<br \/>\nMacy Sarmiento, 2nd Place<br \/>\nAsako Camacho, 3rd Place<br \/>\nAllexa Go, 3rd Place<\/p>\n<p><strong>Poetry Reading\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nYu Jin Lee, 1st Place<br \/>\nRebekah Kim, 2nd Place<br \/>\nAngela Cruz, 3rd Place<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prose Reading\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nAsako Camacho, 1st Place<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dramatic Interpretation\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nAngela Cruz, 1st Place<br \/>\nYu Jin Lee, 2nd Place<br \/>\nJasmine Gortayo, 4th Place<\/p>\n<p><strong>Story Telling\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nYu Jin Lee, 1st Place<br \/>\nRebekah Kim, 5th Place<\/p>\n<p><strong>NFL 9TH-12TH GRADE<\/p>\n<p>Impromptu Speech<\/strong><br \/>\nTerrence Ho, 1st Place<\/p>\n<p><strong>Original Oratory<\/strong><br \/>\nAngela Mamaril, 1st Place<br \/>\nGlenn Paul Florendo, 3rd Place<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dramatic Interpretation\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nDong Ha Lee, 2nd Place<\/p>\n<p><strong>Duo Interpretation\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nTerrence Ho, 2nd Place<br \/>\nJenica Smithee, 2nd Place<\/p>\n<p><strong>Poetry Reading\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nJenica Smithee, 4th Place<br \/>\nDong Ha Lee, 5th Place<\/p>\n<p><strong>Story Telling\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nJimaela Ham, 3rd Place<\/p>\n<p><strong>Expository Speech<\/strong><br \/>\nGlenn Paul Florendo, 3rd Place<\/p>\n<p><strong>U.S. Extemporaneous Speech<\/strong><br \/>\nYong Koo Kim, 4th Place<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Grace Christian Academy students finished with a big success in the recently concluded forensic arts&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}