{"id":7198,"date":"2011-12-05T08:37:51","date_gmt":"2011-12-05T08:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newspaper.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=7198"},"modified":"2011-12-05T08:37:51","modified_gmt":"2011-12-05T08:37:51","slug":"sshs-guiao-awarded-a-quest-bridge-scholarship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/sshs-guiao-awarded-a-quest-bridge-scholarship\/","title":{"rendered":"SSHS&#8217; Guiao awarded a Quest Bridge scholarship"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>By Moneth Deposa<br \/>\nReporter<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/imgupload\/issx9999ns114738.jpg\" alt=\"Lallane Guiao\" width=\"77\" height=\"100\" border=\"0\" \/>\u00a0 A senior student of Saipan Southern High School was named Friday a Quest Bridge scholar for school year 2011-2012.<\/p>\n<p>Lallane Guiao is the second Pacific Islander to accomplish such a feat, next to Darren Demapan who now attends Stanford University.<\/p>\n<p>As a Quest Bridge scholar, Guiao&#8217;s college expenses will all be paid for by the scholarship program. Her college scholarship grant amounts to $58,671.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am truly honored to have been selected for this scholarship. It&#8217;s like a dream come true. My family is extremely proud of me. I would not have been able to accomplish this if it weren&#8217;t for their motivation,\u201d she told Saipan Tribune yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Guiao will enroll at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut.<\/p>\n<p>She said she is thinking of majoring in political science in preparation for a degree in law. Guaio said she applied for the program and was extremely overwhelmed when she received the good news Friday.<\/p>\n<p>She believes that she was selected because of her academics, extra-curricular involvements, and community service.<\/p>\n<p>The Quest Bridge Scholarship is a four-year scholarship covering everything from tuition to board.<\/p>\n<p>Guiao revealed that it was Demapan, also from the CNMI public high school, who encouraged her to apply for the Quest Bridge scholarship.<\/p>\n<p>QuestBridge is a non-profit organization that has worked since 1994 to connect bright, motivated low-income students with educational and scholarship opportunities at some of the nation&#8217;s best colleges and universities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Moneth Deposa Reporter \u00a0 A senior student of Saipan Southern High School was named&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7198","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}