{"id":222161,"date":"2016-03-03T06:06:41","date_gmt":"2016-03-02T20:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=222161"},"modified":"2016-03-03T06:06:41","modified_gmt":"2016-03-02T20:06:41","slug":"mbas-santos-2-others-finalists-in-geographic-bee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/mbas-santos-2-others-finalists-in-geographic-bee\/","title":{"rendered":"MBA\u2019s Santos, 2 others finalists in Geographic Bee"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Marianas Baptist Academy\u2019s seventh grader Victoria Nicole Santos, right, is among three CNMI bets in the final 10 of the National Geographic Bee contest for Pacific Territories. MBA\u2019s English and history teacher Manuel Castro, left, is helping Santos review for the April 1 finals. (Jon Perez)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Marianas Baptist Academy\u2019s Victoria Nicole Santos will join two other CNMI bets in the Pacific Territories\u2019 finals of the National Geographic Bee. The final test will be held on April 1 with the winner representing the Pacific Territories in the national finals in Washington, D.C. on May 22.<\/p>\n

Grace Christian Academy-Saipan\u2019s Jabez Victoria, who is also part of her school\u2019s champion team in the 14th Annual CNMI Academic Challenge Bowl, and Hopwood Junior High School\u2019s Xue Zhen Qiu will join Santos after also qualifying for the final test.<\/p>\n

Guam\u2019s Katherine Cruz (Bishop Baumgartner Memorial Catholic School), Napu Blas (Captain Henry B. Price Elementary School), and Brian Chan (Harvest Christian Academy) and American Samoa\u2019s Sitivi Wong Mageo (Manumalo Baptist Academy), Tovi\u2019o Aufata (Olomoana Elementary School), Victor Chen (Pacific Horizons School), and Aiden Siuloa (U.P. Coleman Elementary School) are the other finalists from the Pacific Territories.<\/p>\n

Airfare, hotel accommodations, and meals will be provided for the winning Pacific Territories representative.<\/p>\n

Santos, whose favorite subject is mathematics, said she really likes joining various academic competitions. She is also part of MBA\u2019s MathCourt and Academic Bowl teams.<\/p>\n

\u201cI find history and geography interesting subjects since you learn a lot when studying the historical importance of a particular place and the people who lived there,\u201d said Santos, who topped the school\u2019s competition last December by besting 25 other students from the sixth to eight grades <\/p>\n

\u201cI studied a lot for this. I read a lot of books where I memorized important dates and places. I just wanted to win this,\u201d added Santos, who also became the CNMI MathCourt team\u2019s fourth member after her score was miscalculated during last month\u2019s competition.<\/p>\n

Santos, who is also on the President\u2019s List, finished fourth after her score was computed again dropping GCA\u2019s Harry Noh to one of the four alternates\u2014Agape Christian School\u2019s Duojia Yu, Seongbeom Song, and Ki Chang Jeoung.<\/p>\n

ACS swept the Top 3 with Frederic Dean Michael Guintu, Quing Yuan Wang, and Da Wei Cai leading Team CNMI in the national finals in set this weekend in San Francisco.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe earned the fourth spot after we informed Dora Miura. They clarified and checked her score, and they found out that there was an error on the computation,\u201d said MBA\u2019s history and English teacher Manuel Castro, who is also Santos\u2019 coach.<\/p>\n

The 12-year-old Santos, who transferred from ACS this school year, said that she has mixed emotions for next month\u2019s Geographic Bee finals for Pacific Territories. \u201cI\u2019m nervous and at the same time excited. I usually play with my brothers and watch television to relax myself.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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