{"id":293774,"date":"2019-02-14T06:06:08","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T20:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=293774"},"modified":"2019-02-14T06:06:08","modified_gmt":"2019-02-13T20:06:08","slug":"sis-student-named-scholar-award-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/sis-student-named-scholar-award-candidate\/","title":{"rendered":"SIS student named scholar award candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saipan International School\u2019s Michael Lee has been selected as a candidate for the U.S. Presidential Scholars Program, one of the nation&#8217;s highest honors for high school students. Lee is also the CNMI\u2019s only finalist for the National Merit Scholarship award.<\/p>\n<p>The purpose of this program is to recognize and honor some of the nation&#8217;s most distinguished graduating high school seniors. Each year, since 1964, up to 161 students are named as presidential scholars out of a pool of over 4,500 candidates. To be eligible, students must be a U.S. citizen or legal permanent U.S. resident, have an exceptional SAT or ACT score, and be invited to apply. If selected as a scholar, students receive an expense-paid trip to Washington, D.C. in June and are presented the U.S. Presidential Scholars medallion at a ceremony sponsored by the White House. Scholars meet important national and international figures; discuss current national and international issues; attend recitals, receptions, and ceremonies held in their honor; and visit area museums and monuments. (PR)<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_293779\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-293779\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Michael-Lee.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Michael-Lee-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-293779\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-293779\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Lee<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saipan International School\u2019s Michael Lee has been selected as a candidate for the U.S. Presidential&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":293779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[699],"class_list":["post-293774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-sis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293774","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\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}