{"id":204168,"date":"2015-06-15T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-14T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=204168"},"modified":"2015-06-15T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-14T20:00:00","slug":"mba-graduates-high-school-and-junior-high-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/mba-graduates-high-school-and-junior-high-students\/","title":{"rendered":"MBA graduates high school and junior high students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Marianas Baptist Academy held its 28th commencement exercise for both its junior high and high school students at the Pedro P. Tenorio Multi-Purpose Center in Susupe last Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-204168 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/mba-graduates-high-school-and-junior-high-students\/mba-pix-1\/'>MBA pix 1<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-204173'>\n\t\t\t\tMarianas Baptist Academy\u2019s top three middle school students, from left, Ian Rei Cataluna, Esther Hansol Huh, and Matt Jason B. Moran. (Dennis B. Chan)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/mba-graduates-high-school-and-junior-high-students\/mba-pix-2\/'>MBA pix 2<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-204174'>\n\t\t\t\tDENNIS B. CHAN\nMBA\u2019s high school salutatorians and valedictorian pose for a photo after their graduation. From left are salutatorians Pearl Cataluna, Cloency Chua, Alina Yoon, and valedictorian Won Woo Choi. (Dennis B. Chan)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>MBA\u2019s high school valedictorian was Won Woo Choi, who will be studying Applied Mathematics at Texas A&#038;M.<\/p>\n<p>MBA\u2019s three salutatorians were Pearl Caresse M. Cataluna, Cloency Zuriel Cha, and Alina Yoon.<\/p>\n<p>In middle school, the students with highest percentile average\u2014from first to third place\u2014were Ian Rei Cataluna, Matt Jason B. Moran, and Esther Hansol Huh.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, Cataluna and Moran were the youngest in the class, having skipped the sixth grade.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, MBA graduated about 11 high school students. They are all heading to college off-island.<\/p>\n<p>They also graduated about 16 eighth grade students from their middle school.<\/p>\n<p>Right now, MBA is accepting fifth to 12th grade students for upcoming school years 2015-2016. Open enrollment is ongoing. The school is located in Dandan, across the Shell gas station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Marianas Baptist Academy held its 28th commencement exercise for both its junior high and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":204173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[5364,5365,5366,810],"class_list":["post-204168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-alina-yoon","tag-cloency-zuriel-cha","tag-ian-rei-cataluna","tag-mba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204168","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\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}