{"id":221582,"date":"2016-02-24T04:00:51","date_gmt":"2016-02-23T18:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=221582"},"modified":"2016-02-24T04:00:51","modified_gmt":"2016-02-23T18:00:51","slug":"guintu-to-lead-nmi-mathcourt-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/guintu-to-lead-nmi-mathcourt-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Guintu to lead NMI MathCourt team"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Frederic Dean Michael Guintu, with trophy, joins the other participants of last month\u2019s CNMI-wide MathCourt competition. Guintu will be leading Team CNMI in the nationals next month in San Francisco. (Contributed Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Frederic Dean Michael Guintu will be leading the CNMI MathCourt team\u2019s campaign in next month\u2019s national competition in San Francisco. He and two other students from Agape Christian School\u2014Quing Yuan Wang and Da Wei Cai\u2014swept the Top 3 positions in the CNMI-Wide MathCout competition held last Jan. 30.<\/p>\n

Grace Christian Academy\u2019s Harry Noh, who is also part of GCA\u2019s 14th Annual CNMI Academic Challenge Bowl champion team, is the fourth member of the CNMI MathCourt squad that\u2019s going to the nationals.<\/p>\n

ACS\u2019 Duojia Yu is an alternate along with Victoria Santos, Seongbeom Song, and Ki Chang Jeoung of Marianas Baptist Academy. Team CNMI held their first practice last Feb. 6 and will have their last practice this Saturday, Feb. 27.<\/p>\n

This will be Guintu\u2019s fifth straight time to compete in the nationals as his previous three were in elementary. This is his second time as a middle-schooler since he was part of Team CNMI in last year\u2019s tournament in Houston, Texas.<\/p>\n

Guintu, whose father Frederick Guintu is ACS\u2019 mathematics teacher and coach, also qualified for the Scripps Regional Spelling Bee in Guam but he chose MathCouth since the competition will be held the same day on March 6.<\/p>\n

He said that there\u2019s always been pressure from his father, a licensed mechanical engineer, being the teacher and coach but he has learned to take it as a challenge rather than be distracted. It pushed him to study harder and do his best in every competition.<\/p>\n

He advised his teammates to prepare hard for the nationals. \u201cI\u2019m not really nervous. It\u2019s fun to always go to the nationals, the competition is hard that\u2019s why we need to study hard and prepare for the problems. Just enjoy the competition.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was Wang\u2019s first time to compete and he already earned the chance to go to the nationals while Cai booked a ticket after his fourth try.<\/p>\n

\u201cI started competing in the MathCourt in the fourth grade. This is my first time to win individually that\u2019s why I\u2019m eager and ready to do my share in the nationals. I always win in the team event,\u201d said Cai, who again helped ACS to win the team event. Guintu, Wang, and Yu joined Cai on Team ACS.<\/p>\n

MBA\u2014Santos, Jeoung, Keving Song, and Stephen Bartolo\u2014settled for the silver, while Saipan Community School\u2019s Shan Nan Xie, Seung Ju Lee, and Mark Nam finished third in the team events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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