{"id":310173,"date":"2019-10-17T06:06:18","date_gmt":"2019-10-16T20:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=310173"},"modified":"2019-10-17T06:06:18","modified_gmt":"2019-10-16T20:06:18","slug":"7-gca-students-bag-top-awards-at-njsda-contests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/7-gca-students-bag-top-awards-at-njsda-contests\/","title":{"rendered":"7 GCA students bag top awards at NJSDA contests"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_310174\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-310174\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/GCA-pix.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-310174\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/GCA-pix.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-310174\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grace Christian Academy students who won at the National Junior Speech and Debate Association\u2019s first monthly competition in September have their picture taken at Rev. Raymond S. Kinsella Library. (CONTRIBUTED PHOTO)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>All of the seven Grace Christian Academy students that participated in the National Junior Speech and Debate Association\u2019s first monthly competition in September have won top awards.<\/p>\n<p>Almost all of the GCA competitors are in 6th grade, except one. That means it was their first time to compete in this league. Despite only a few days to prepare, all of them emerged as winners in one or two of the events in which they competed.<\/p>\n<p>Janus Roman Calayo, a first-timer at the NJSDA and sixth grader, won two first place in his events, and seventh grader Jennifer Woo, the only student who is not a first-time competitor in the league, won first and second place in her events. Both of these students have been competing in the Primary Grades Forensic competition since elementary grade at GCA, which prepared them to compete at the junior high school level.<\/p>\n<p>More GCA students will be joining the next monthly competitions to hone their public speaking as well as reading and writing skills.<\/p>\n<p>NJSDA competitions encourage public and private school students to participate in and become proficient in reading, public speaking, debate, and interpretations. (PR)<\/p>\n<p>The winners were:<\/p>\n<p>Impromptu Speech<br \/>\nJanus Roman Calayo, 1st Place<br \/>\nJacqlene Troi Torres, 2nd Place<br \/>\nJaclyn Rose Davis, 3rd Place<br \/>\nVaniqa Marie Torres, 4th Place<\/p>\n<p>Extemporaneous Speech<br \/>\nJanus Roman Calayo, 1st Place<br \/>\nEarljean Jonathan Pantaleon, 2nd Place<br \/>\nApollo Benjamin Sicad, 3rd Place<\/p>\n<p>Declamation<br \/>\nJennifer Woo, 1st Place<\/p>\n<p>Dramatic Interpretation<br \/>\nJennifer Woo, 2nd Place<\/p>\n<p>Prose Reading A<br \/>\nJaclyn Rose Davis, 4th Place<\/p>\n<p>NSDA coach\/coordinator: Grace Duran<br \/>\nCompetition registrar: Esther Manzano<br \/>\nJudge: Desolee Calayo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All of the seven Grace Christian Academy students that participated in the National Junior Speech&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2854],"class_list":["post-310173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-njsda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310173","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=310173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}