{"id":392765,"date":"2023-05-31T06:06:15","date_gmt":"2023-05-30T20:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=392765"},"modified":"2023-05-31T06:06:15","modified_gmt":"2023-05-30T20:06:15","slug":"nuera-and-ali-lead-tjshs-class-of-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/nuera-and-ali-lead-tjshs-class-of-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuera and Ali lead TJSHS Class of \u201823"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_392766\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-392766\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/TJSHS-pix-PW.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-392766\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/TJSHS-pix-PW-1024x531.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"498\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-392766\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Top 10 graduates of the Tinian Junior Senior High School led the Class of 2023 as they were introduced to the public on Saturday. (CONTRIBUTED PHOTO)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_392767\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-392767\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Ryan-Michael-Nuera-mugfix.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-392767\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Ryan-Michael-Nuera-mugfix-300x279.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"279\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-392767\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">RYAN MICHAEL ACHACOSO NUERA<br \/>Valedictorian<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Turning the tassel from student to alumni, a total of 41 young graduates received their long-awaited diplomas during the Tinian Junior Senior High School graduation at the school\u2019s campus last Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Leading the class were valedictorian Ryan Michael Achacoso Nuera and salutatorian Saim Ali, who were both awarded two types of awards for their outstanding effort. Nuera was presented with both the Board of Education Award and the Governor\u2019s Outstanding Student Award, while Ali took home the Commissioner\u2019s Award and the Mayor\u2019s Award.<\/p>\n<p>The other awardees were Ciara Gabrielle Barcinas Santos, who received the Lt. Governor\u2019s Outstanding Student Award; Top 3 student Isa Liana King Reyes, who also received the Outstanding Female Graduate award; Hazel Anne Pablo Mabansag, who was also a Top 4 awardee and received the Principal\u2019s School Leadership Award; and Chad Andrei Llanora Acollador, who was given the PTSA Award. Acollador was also seventh in his class.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_392768\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-392768\" style=\"width: 278px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Saim-Ali-mugfix.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-392768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Saim-Ali-mugfix-278x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"278\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-392768\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SAIM ALI<br \/>Salutatorian<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Top 10 awardees, in order from first to last were Nuera, Ali, Reyes, Mabansag, Guillermina Rose Cruz San Nicolas, Ismail Imran Veri Hossain, Acollador, Christian Carlo Libut Sanchez, Jun Jie Luo, and Gio Palmitos Vergara.<\/p>\n<p>School alumna and current TJSHS vice principal Nikita Mendiola, who was the keynote speaker at the graduation, encouraged the TJSHS Class of 2023 to continue to be teachable, honest, respectful, and to never stop learning, reminding them that they are in control of their destiny and success. \u201cYou all have grown so much since you were my students in the classroom, and I am so proud of who each and every one of you have become, no matter how much you doubt your own successes. You have overcome great obstacles these past few years, and I never once doubted your abilities to overcome them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turning the tassel from student to alumni, a total of 41 young graduates received their&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":392766,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-392765","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\/392765","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}