{"id":235773,"date":"2016-09-06T06:00:17","date_gmt":"2016-09-05T20:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=235773"},"modified":"2016-09-06T06:00:17","modified_gmt":"2016-09-05T20:00:17","slug":"miss-marianas-joins-coin-geography-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/miss-marianas-joins-coin-geography-workshop\/","title":{"rendered":"Miss Marianas joins coin, geography workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-235773 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\/miss-marianas-joins-coin-geography-workshop\/coin-pix-1\/'>Coin-pix-1<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-235798'>\n\t\t\t\tMiss Marianas 2016 Peachy Quitugua takes a peek at a fellow workshop attendee\u2019s foreign coin during the coin workshop hosted by the Mariana Stamp and Coin Club at the Joeten-Kiyu Public Library last Saturday. (Erwin Encinares)\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\/miss-marianas-joins-coin-geography-workshop\/coin-pix-2\/'>Coin-pix-2<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-235799'>\n\t\t\t\tMiss Marianas 2016 Peachy Quitugua applies pressure to a coin just recently glued to the map that is going to be displayed at the Joeten-Kiyu Public. (Erwin Encinares)\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\/miss-marianas-joins-coin-geography-workshop\/coin-pix-3\/'>Coin-pix-3<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-235800'>\n\t\t\t\tMariana Stamp and Coin Club founder Steven Connor explains the images on a coin from New Zealand. (Erwin Encinares)\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\/miss-marianas-joins-coin-geography-workshop\/coin-pix-4\/'>Coin-pix-4<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-235801'>\n\t\t\t\tMiss Marianas 2016 Peachy Quitugua along with Mariana Stamp and Coin Club founder Steven Connor and the attendees of the coin workshop pose for a group photo beside the coin map. (Erwin Encinares)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>The Mariana Stamp and Coin Club hosted a coin workshop last Saturday at the Joeten-Kiyu Public Library to teach people of all ages about geography through foreign coins donated to the American Red Cross NMI Chapter. <\/p>\n<p>Geography was taught by letting the children glue the foreign coins to the country where they came from on a map which would be displayed in the public library for visitors to see. <\/p>\n<p>Miss Marianas 2016 Peachy Quitugua could not help but stand out among the attendees of the workshop. She said she is fascinated by the the amount of foreign coins donated to the American Red Cross NMI Chapter. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it was a very eye-opening event. To see the visitors from all around the world visiting Saipan. It feels really good to know that people know about our islands,\u201d said Quitugua.<\/p>\n<p>Quitugua also thinks that workshops such as these are useful to her by increasing her knowledge about foreign countries that she might encounter in the near future. \u201cI stumbled upon a lot of countries that I didn\u2019t know existed, along with their locations. I think this would really help me a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Quitugua is currently starting preparations for her next competition, Miss International, which is to be held in Tokyo, Japan, on Oct. 27 this year.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cI am doing stuff like this [coin workshop], like getting to know other countries because I would get to meet a lot of people. I am also fixing my public speaking, because I have to speak a lot. Just fixing my stage presence and getting to know more about my island because I am going to represent the CNMI.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>John Hirsch, executive director of the ARC NMI Chapter, expressed his gratitude not only to the Mariana Stamp and Coin Club, but also to those who donated. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Red Cross, for many years on the island, has been placing small coin boxes in different stores. Like they say in fundraising, every penny counts\u2014literally. So we\u2019re really grateful to anyone who puts their change into the coin boxes,\u201d said Hirsch. \u201cOver time, in addition to U.S. coins, people particularly tourists, drop foreign coins. Unfortunately, we really can\u2019t take those coins to the bank and exchange them for U.S. currency.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Steven Connor, founder of the Mariana Stamp and Coin Club, shared that the main goal of the coin workshop is to teach the children not only about geography, but also about how big the world really is. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe main thing is for children to learn about coins, the images on the coin, what they mean, where they came from, and how they got here. This is so that they appreciate that we are all part of one world. We\u2019re not stuck in an island out here, where nobody knows where we are,\u201d said Connor. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mariana Stamp and Coin Club hosted a coin workshop last Saturday at the Joeten-Kiyu&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":235798,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[900],"tags":[13247,13248,67,6254],"class_list":["post-235773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-miss-international","tag-peachy-quitugua","tag-people","tag-steven-connor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235773","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\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}