2 LHS delegates win 4th YMCA Nat'l Academic Olympics

by Miguelito Tolipas, IV-Platinum

Lagro High School students reap awards in the 4th YMCA National Talent Olympics held at the Manila Downtown YMCA Bldg., Conference Hall last January 19, 2013 .

The two students are Karen Joy B. San Diego (IV-Gold) who won 1st place in the Essay Writing and, truthfully yours Miguelito A. Tolipas (IV-Platinum) who got the 3rd place in Quiz Bee.

"Salamatsamgabatang 'to. Anggagalingnila. Hindi nga kami nagkamalisapagpilisakanila," Ms. Imelda Biglang-Awa said, one of the trainors of the contestants.

With this year's theme, "Breaking Barriers: Strengthening Partnership towards Transformation," the YMCA of the Philippines held its annual National Academic Olympics with different delegates coming from the regions of Northern Luzon, Southern Luzon, Visayas Region, Mindanao Region and lastly, the Manila Bay Region. But unfortunately, the incumbent president of the YMCA of the Philippines Mr. Felix Eliral R. Refuerzo told us that the Mindanao Region was not able to send their representatives for the said competition.

"Angsaya-sayanamin.Hindi naminakalaingmakaka-abot kami rito. Because this was our first time that we've been able to join a National-level contest. And luckily, we won," Karen Joy B. San Diego remarked.

The said contest had its other different categories namely Singing contest, Extemporaneous Speech, Oratorical Contest, On-the-spot Poster Making and Modern Dance. We had our school's candidates in these said categories but they weren't able to join the National contest for they didn't qualify to advance to the Regional Level.

The Distric level of the said contest was held at the Carlos P. Garcia High School last November 20, 2012 while the Regional level was held on January 12, 2013 at the Conference Hall of YMCA Manila Downtown.

The trainors/coaches were given Certificates of Recognition aside from the medals/trophies and Certificates of Merit given to the winners.

Do this for your grades

by Alias Jady Santos, IV-Platinum

I cannot understand, why do we need to do some things that have no connection with the subject we are studying forcedly just to have grades. “Do this for you to have plus factors”, these are the words I always hear from our teachers when it comes to requirements.

One example is the current dance practice for the upcoming family day this Saturday. My teachers said that if we join we will have plus grades on Physics, Mapeh, Values, and Araling Panlipunan, but what is the connection of this activity to those subjects. In Mapeh maybe it is all right but why on Physics, Values and Ap? We did not study the different Laws of motion, the kinds of values and virtues, and the economic growth just for dancing. It is unfair for those who do not like and do not know how to dance.

Teachers said that we must practice whole day even though we have classes for us to win the contest. This is my fourth year in this school but this is the first time that I have encountered this kind of event. What about our studies? What will happen to our other subjects? What will happen to those who can’t dance and cannot participate the event like me?

I think they must have an alternative project for this. This mask dance covers four subjects. I’m sure this will affect us very much. I wonder why did our principal allowed this to happen.

LHS MTAP Team Advances to Area Finals

The Lagro High School Math team grabs its Overall 2^nd best Performing school for 2 succeeding years in the Metrobank MTAP-DepEd Math Challenge Team Eliminations held last Saturday, January 19, 2013 at the San Francisco High School.

Students and Teams from different schools from Quezon City gathered at the said venue to compete for their spot for the Team Orals Area Finals and Regional Individual Finals.

Lagro High School gathered all second places for each Year-level Team Elimination for the Category A.

“We’re happy, because even though we didn’t had enough preparation for the eliminations, since our original trainer, Mam. Licerio, had her surgery, we’re still able to qualify for the next round.” Alexis Glenn Espina, one of the 4^th year contestants said.

Individual rankings and scores are still unavailable.

The list of the LHS Students who qualified for the team orals is as follows:

Grade 7

1.       Macmac Moreno     – 7 - Einstein

2.       ____________        – 7 - Einstein

3.       ____________        – 7 – Einstein

2^nd Year

1.       Allan Nepomuceno                 – II – Narra

2.       Joseph Lagalagot      – II – Narra

3.       Christian Valencia    – II – Narra

3^rd Year

1.       Eiji Hiura                       - III – Diamond

2.       Jerson Rabadon        - III – Diamond

3.       _____________     - III – Diamond

4^th Year

1.       Alexis Glenn Espina - IV – Platinum

2.       Earl Danielle Urbiztondo - IV – Platinum

The Area Finals will be held at the Quezon City Science High School Audio Visual Room on the second week of February and the Regional Individual Finals will be held at Stella Maris College on the first week of February.