{"id":341071,"date":"2021-03-29T06:00:17","date_gmt":"2021-03-28T20:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=341071"},"modified":"2021-03-29T06:00:17","modified_gmt":"2021-03-28T20:00:17","slug":"all-13-gca-competitors-qualify-for-pgcf-regionals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/all-13-gca-competitors-qualify-for-pgcf-regionals\/","title":{"rendered":"All 13 GCA competitors qualify for PGCF regionals"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_341077\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-341077\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/GCA-PGFC-pix..jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-341077\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/GCA-PGFC-pix.-1024x531.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"498\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-341077\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Primary Grades Forensic Conference winners of Grace Christian Academy have their picture taken at their Navy Hill campus. (CONTRIBUTED PHOTO)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>All 13 Grace Christian Academy competitors bagged one or both awards in their two events in last February\u2019s virtual monthly qualifying competition of the Primary Grades Forensic Conference for kindergarten to 5th grade.<\/p>\n<p>All four competitors in kindergarten to 2nd grade won eight awards in all their two events and the 3rd to 5th graders won 15 awards, for a total of 23 awards in different events for the two divisions.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to all GCA competitors who joined in any of the four monthly qualifying the competitions since October 2020. All of them won at least one or more awards, making them eligible or qualified to join the regional completion in April. Those who will join the regional competition are now preparing for the final competition.<\/p>\n<p>Due to COVID-19 restrictions, almost all of the events are pre-recorded video entries.\u00a0The only\u00a0live\u00a0event for PGFC is Impromptu Speaking via Google Meet, during which only the competitors and judges can enter the live meeting.<\/p>\n<p>PGFC competition encourages public and private school students from kindergarten 5 to fifth grade to participate in and become proficient in performing arts: reading, public speaking, and interpretation.<\/p>\n<p>The administration, faculty and staff, and parents of Grace Christian Academy would like to extend their congratulations to the following winners who participated in this competition:<\/p>\n<p><strong>K-2 DIVISION<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Declamation<br \/>\nJacqueline Iris Quitugua, 1st Place<\/p>\n<p>Chamorro Event<br \/>\nJacqueline Iris Quitugua, 1st Place<\/p>\n<p>Dramatic Interpretation A<br \/>\nFiona Yu, 1st Place<\/p>\n<p>Reader\u2019s Forum A<br \/>\nAllen Gil, 2nd Place<\/p>\n<p>Reader\u2019s Forum\u00a0Masters A<br \/>\nMirielle Isla Badal, 1st Place<br \/>\nFiona Yu, 2nd Place<\/p>\n<p>Impromptu Speaking\u00a0A<br \/>\nMirielle Isla Badal, 2nd Place<br \/>\nAllen Gil, 4th Place<\/p>\n<p><strong>3-5 DIVISION<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Declamation<br \/>\nHans Gabriel Ordas, 1st Place<br \/>\nChloe Hayul Shin, 3rd Place<br \/>\nCatalina Marie Frink, 4th Place<\/p>\n<p>Humorous Interpretation<br \/>\nChloe Hayul Shin, 1st Place<\/p>\n<p>Duo Interpretation\u00a0A<br \/>\nLlyanna Jairah Libut, 1st Place<br \/>\nEliane Nerisse Pagaduan, 1st Place<\/p>\n<p>Duo Interpretation\u00a0B<br \/>\nCatalina Marie Frink, 2nd Place<br \/>\nBaila Marie Loomis, 2nd Place<\/p>\n<p>Impromptu Speaking\u00a0A<br \/>\nHans Gabriel Ordas, 1st Place<br \/>\nChloe Hayul Shin, 3rd Place<\/p>\n<p>Impromptu Speaking\u00a0B<br \/>\nAnne Gabriel Emmalee Arriola, 2nd Place<\/p>\n<p>Reader\u2019s Forum\u00a0Masters A<br \/>\nEliane Nerisse Pagaduan, 2nd Place<br \/>\nNerissa Corinne Xiao Liu, 3rd Place<\/p>\n<p>Reader\u2019s Forum\u00a0C<br \/>\nAkira Ito, 4th Place<br \/>\nLlyanna Jairah Libut, 5th Place<\/p>\n<p>PGFC coach\/coordinator: Esther Manzano (PR)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All 13 Grace Christian Academy competitors bagged one or both awards in their two events&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":341077,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[698],"class_list":["post-341071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-gca"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341071","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=341071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}