{"id":338207,"date":"2021-02-10T06:00:38","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T20:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=338207"},"modified":"2021-02-10T06:00:38","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T20:00:38","slug":"gms-falcons-bag-top-places-in-njsda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/gms-falcons-bag-top-places-in-njsda\/","title":{"rendered":"GMS Falcons bag top places in NJSDA\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_338208\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-338208\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/NJSDA-photo-.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-338208\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/NJSDA-photo--1024x531.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"498\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-338208\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Green Meadow School\u2019s representatives at the islandwide pre-regional meet of the National Junior Speech and Debate Association pose with teachers, school officials, and school principal Milagros Songcuan, leftmost. (CONTRIBUTED PHOTO)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Most of Green Meadow School\u2019s representatives at the islandwide pre-regional meet of the National Junior Speech and Debate Association bagged top places in various speech events.<\/p>\n<p>GMS students from 6th-8th grade took four first-place finishes in the competition, which was held in January.<\/p>\n<p>To adhere to COVID-19 protocols, this school year\u2019s NJSDA competition was altered in the way the students presented their pieces. Interpretation events were pre-recorded, while other events such as Impromptu and Extemporaneous Speaking remained as live events. All events were judged remotely, with the judges evaluating the performances via the Zoom application.<\/p>\n<p>School principal Milagros Songcuan praised the students as well as their parents for their untiring support of the school and its students.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WINNERS\u2019 LIST<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tristhony Duarte: 1st place in Poetry, 2nd place in Dramatic Interpretation<br \/>\nTristan Yanto: 1st place in Prose, 3rd place in Poetry<br \/>\nAndres Antonio Antonino: 2nd place in Humorous Interpretation, 2nd place in Poetry<br \/>\nElesha Louise Manansala: 2nd place in Impromptu B, 3rd place in Declamation<br \/>\nPaula Bernardo: 3rd place in Impromptu B<br \/>\nJohn Edsel Hinolan: 1st place in Declamation, 3rd place in Impromptu A<br \/>\nEzra Kristen Alfred: 4th place in Dramatic Interpretation<br \/>\nYel Khalil Ocampo: 4th place in Poetry, 5th place in Impromptu A<br \/>\nChealzka Navarro: 1st place in Impromptu A, 2nd place in Declamation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of Green Meadow School\u2019s representatives at the islandwide pre-regional meet of the National Junior&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":338208,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-338207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338207","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=338207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}