{"id":298452,"date":"2019-04-29T06:06:06","date_gmt":"2019-04-28T20:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=298452"},"modified":"2019-04-29T06:06:06","modified_gmt":"2019-04-28T20:06:06","slug":"hopwood-students-easter-egg-design-at-wh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/hopwood-students-easter-egg-design-at-wh\/","title":{"rendered":"Hopwood student\u2019s Easter egg design at WH"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hopwood student Jeroen Montenejo’s completes his Easter egg design for the annual White House Easter Egg Roll event held every Easter Monday at the White House in Washington, D.C. (Contributed Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

An Easter egg design, created by Jeroen Montenejo, a 7th grader from Hopwood Middle School, was one of the many egg designs featured this year at the annual Easter Egg Roll at the White House.<\/p>\n

Montenejo\u2019s design layered a latte stone behind an image of Saipan, with birds on the left side, plumeria flowers on the side, and mwars mwars around it, plus an image of a girl that is symbolic of Mother Nature and a heart \u201cfor the love we have for the CNMI.\u201d He said he and his brother, Jerico, chose blue as the background because it represents the CNMI flag. All that made to fit a single egg.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe way I came up with this design was how Saipan really felt like as a community,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Schools across the nation were invited to decorate an egg design representing their state or territory at the \u201cWhite House Easter Egg Roll,\u201d which is an annual event held April 22 or every Easter Monday at the White House in Washington, D.C. for children ages 13 and below. Montenejo\u2019s egg design was chosen to represent the CNMI. President Donald J. Trump and first lady Melania Trump led this year\u2019s celebration.<\/p>\n

Montenejo\u2019s teacher, Riya Nathrani,\u00a0heard of the opportunity through Hopwood\u2019s school principal and the Office of the Commissioner, who were contacted about it by the U.S. Department of Education.<\/p>\n

“Hopwood students were asked to submit entries and I submitted Montenejo’s because he\u2019s my student so the school chose it to represent the NMI,” Nathrani said.<\/p>\n

The decorated eggs were displayed as guests entered the White House\u2019s South Lawn and Ellipse to illustrate the vast footprint of the Easter Egg Roll.<\/p>\n

The Easter Egg Roll dates back to 1878 under the administration of President Rutherford B. Hayes. The tradition was sustained by subsequent U.S. Presidents.<\/p>\n

Hopwood Middle School was given the Easter Egg Roll design challenge in the CNMI because it is a Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics-centered school, Nathrani said.\u00a0 The design was required to be emblematic of the state\/territory and include state symbols such as the state flag, bird, and flower.<\/p>\n

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The chosen Easter egg design that represented the CNMI at the annual White House Easter Egg Roll at the White House in Washington, D.C. (Contributed Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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