{"id":370426,"date":"2022-06-16T06:06:44","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T20:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=370426"},"modified":"2022-06-16T06:06:44","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T20:06:44","slug":"jkpl-names-winners-of-its-sand-sculpture-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/jkpl-names-winners-of-its-sand-sculpture-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"JKPL names winners of its sand sculpture competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of CNMI Ocean\u2019s Month and World Ocean\u2019s Day celebration last June 8, the Joeten-Kiyu Public Library partnered with the Bureau of Environmental and Coastal Quality\u2019s Division of Coastal Resource Management to host a sand sculpture contest for the library\u2019s Children\u2019s Summer Reading Program session 1B participants (9 to 12 years old).<\/p>\n<p>Out of more than 50-plus participants and six groups, three groups won. The panel of judges included 2021 Miss Earth NMI Crystal Fiona Rio, library director Erlinda C. Naputi, Coral Reef Initiative communications coordinator\/DCRM-BECQ Marlyn C. Naputi, and BECQ director Ray S. Masga.<\/p>\n<p>Group were informed to work together and build a sea creature. Judges voted on teamwork, creativity and uniqueness, sea creature, and group share response.<br \/>\nThe Winning groups are as follows:<\/p>\n<p><strong>FIRST PLACE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Entry: Bikini Bottom<br \/>\nParticipants: Stephan Li, Elita Li, Keoni Ruszala, Lelani Ruszala, Keara Crisostomo, David Bercilla, Team Leaders: Miranda Marian and Valerie Naputi<br \/>\nPrizes: $15.00 gift certificate from 670 Rocksteady, Movie pass from Friends of the JKPL, and a toy from Lollipops for each child. DOCOMO Pacific Beach chair for the group leader.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_370427\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-370427\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Sand-sculpture-pix1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-370427\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Sand-sculpture-pix1-1024x531.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"498\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-370427\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The first place winning group. (CONTRIBUTED PHOTOS)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>SECOND PLACE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Entry: Library Turtle<br \/>\nParticipants: Noah Balisalisa, Evan Balisalisa, Ava Dela Cruz, Jesse Dela Cruz, Grayden Ngiralmau, Team Leaders: Yuteng Chen and Leora Terlaje<br \/>\nPrize: Movie pass from the Friends of the JKPL for each winner.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_370428\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-370428\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Sand-sculpture-pix2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-370428\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Sand-sculpture-pix2-1024x531.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"498\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-370428\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The second-place winners.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>THIRD PLACE <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Entry: Jelly Fish with the Mask<br \/>\nParticipants: Tristan Que, Chloe Shin, Dana Hwang, Katherine Hwang, Emma Long, Nia Que, Eldrian Calibo, Team Leaders: Sharee Fernando, Pauline Viray, Aaron Cayading, and Chelsea Gozun<br \/>\nPrizes: Movie pass from the Friends of the JKPL for each winner. (PR)<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_370429\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-370429\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Sand-sculpture-pix3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-370429\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Sand-sculpture-pix3-1024x531.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"498\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-370429\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The third-place winners.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of CNMI Ocean\u2019s Month and World Ocean\u2019s Day celebration last June 8, the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":370427,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[412],"class_list":["post-370426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-jkpl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370426","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=370426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}