{"id":342406,"date":"2021-04-19T06:00:39","date_gmt":"2021-04-18T20:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=342406"},"modified":"2021-04-19T06:00:39","modified_gmt":"2021-04-18T20:00:39","slug":"2-gca-students-win-in-2021-toyota-dream-car-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/2-gca-students-win-in-2021-toyota-dream-car-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"2 GCA students win in 2021 Toyota Dream Car contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_342407\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-342407\" style=\"width: 432px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/GCA-pix1.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-342407\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">En Mei Huang wins first place in the 8-11 category with her entry titled \u201cNew Alternative Energy Car.\u201d  (GCA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Two elementary students of Grace Christian Academy won top awards in the 8-11 division of the 2021 Toyota Dream Car Art Contest, which means their entries have qualified to complete with other entries worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>Third grader En Mei Huang won first place, while fifth grader Eun Ho Amy Park won third place in their category of the 2021 Toyota Dream Car contest. They recently attended the awards ceremony with limited guests due to COVID-19 restrictions at the Atkins Kroll Toyota showroom in San Jose, Saipan. Both of their entries will be entered in the worldwide contest.<\/p>\n<p>Huang has already won several islandwide art contests, including first place in the 2019 Toyota Dream Car contest when she was in first grade. The title of her latest artwork is \u201cNew Alternative Energy Car.\u201d She said her car has a machine that can suck virus and dirt and convert them into fuel. <\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_342408\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-342408\" style=\"width: 169px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/GCA-pix2-169x300.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-342408\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eun Ho Amy Park holds her winning entry, titled \u201cHelping Car.\u201d  (GCA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ho was happy to win in this art contest for the first time, with her artwork titled \u201cHelping Car.\u201d She said her car can help deliver food and goods like COVID-19 vaccine to the people who need them. <\/p>\n<p>GCA Art teacher Esther Manzano commended both students on their artwork. \u201cKeep [being creative]\u201d she mentioned in her written encouragement comment in the world contest entry sheet for both students.<\/p>\n<p>More than 80 countries participate in the Toyota Dream Car Art Contest, which invites children from around the world to draw their dream cars. The winners of each category will participate in the world contest in which a grand prize winner from each category and two special award winners will be selected.\u00a0Each winner\u00a0will receive\u00a0$5,000\u00a0to spend on educational resources and supplementary prizes of\u00a0$10,000\u00a0will also be awarded to\u00a0their school\u00a0to spend on educational resources. <strong>(PR)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two elementary students of Grace Christian Academy won top awards in the 8-11 division of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":342409,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-342406","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\/342406","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=342406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}