{"id":366808,"date":"2022-04-21T06:03:06","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T20:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=366808"},"modified":"2022-04-21T06:03:06","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T20:03:06","slug":"rota-and-gca-students-sweep-contests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/rota-and-gca-students-sweep-contests\/","title":{"rendered":"Rota and GCA students sweep contests"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_366804\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-366804\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Law-Month-pix-11.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-366804\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The students from Dr. Rita H. Inos Jr. High School, who won the essay contest; and students from Grace Christian Academy who won, the poster making contest, pose with their first, second, and third place certificates at the Guma\u2019 Hustisia atrium yesterday morning during the proclamation signing designating the month of May as Law Month and Drug Court Month. (Leigh Gases)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In a two-part proclamation signing yesterday morning that designates the month of May as Law Month and Drug Court Month, some middle school students and elementary school students were recognized at the Guma\u2019 Hustisia for their winning essays and posters related to the Law Month theme: \u201cToward a more perfect union: the Constitution in times of change.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The occasion saw the courthouse\u2019s atrium packed of dignitaries from all three branches of government as well as court staff, parents, students, and teachers of Dr. Rita H. Inos Jr. High School of Rota and Grace Christian Academy of Saipan.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Rita H. Inos Jr. High School students swept the middle school essay contest as they won first, second, and third place. The first-place winner, who received the \u201cChief Justice Award,\u201d was Aden Chonne H. Calvo, an eighth-grade student. The second-place winner, who received the \u201cAssociate Justice Award,\u201d was Lovelee Zhene B. Jingco, an eighth-grade student, and the third-place winner, who received the \u201cSupreme Court Award,\u201d was Eianne Ladao, an eighth-grade student as well.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_366806\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-366806\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Law-Month-pix22-300x239.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-366806\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Five of the six essay and poster contest winners pose for a photo with dignitaries at the Guma Hustisia yesterday morning.\u00a0(Leigh Gases)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Armi Atalig, a teacher of RHIJSHS and chaperone for the middle school students, was understandably proud of the school\u2019s students. \u201cWe have brilliant students that really know our constitution\u2026and their essays deal with the ideals and principles of the government that we have. \u2026I hope that they do a better job in terms of their future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For the elementary school poster contest, Grace Christian Academy of Saipan claimed the first, second, and third place honors. The first-place winner, who received the \u201cPresiding Judge Award,\u201d was fourth-grade student Victoria En Mei Huang. Second place went to fifth-grade student Breanna May Lopez, who received the \u201cAssociate Judge Award.\u201d The third-place winner was fifth-grade student Minato Takahasi, who won the \u201cSuperior Court Award.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Education Commissioner Dr. Alfred Ada said he\u2019s very proud of the students\u2014\u201dall students, public and private [school] students, that really stepped up to the plate to take the time to execute their skills in reading, writing\u2026and creativity. I am very pleased that CNMI students are rising up and taking the challenge, so I\u2019m very pleased and it\u2019s well deserved. This is their day, and I really hope to see more and more of this competition. And the beauty about it is that both public and private school students are being awarded.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a two-part proclamation signing yesterday morning that designates the month of May as Law&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":366805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[900],"tags":[698],"class_list":["post-366808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-gca"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366808","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\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}