Ateneo de Iloilo gets 7 nat'l journ awards
About P50,000 worth of cash prize was hauled by the Ateneo de Iloilo journalism team in the recently-concluded 6th Quintin Yuyitung Award for the school year 2005-2006.
The award is given annually by the Yuyitung Foundation to campus journalists from Chinese-Filipino schools all over the country. This year's competition includes 580 entry-publications from 27 schools covering 10 provincial institutions and 17 schools from Metro Manila.
In a fax message and in an advanced publication in a national Chinese-Filipino newspaper, it showed that Neil Andrew Llorente, 17, prevailed over his counterparts and won the most-coveted Best Editor in Chief award. He also championed in Opinion Writing (English) and News Writing (Filipino) categories.
Llorente, to note, is the multi-awarded editor in chief of Ripples, the official student publication of AdI-Santa Maria Catholic School (AdI-SMCS) High School Department, for the school year 2005-2006. He is his batch's valedictorian; and is now taking up a degree in Legal Management at the Ateneo de Manila University (AdMU).
Ripples '06 associate editor Valerie Ann Villarosa, 17, also chipped in the gold medal in Feature Writing (Filipino). A qualifier in the National Schools Press Conference (NSPC), Villarosa graduated as class salutatorian and is now taking up a Nursing degree at St. Paul's University-Iloilo.
Four runner-up awards at P5,000 each were also garnered by the same number of Ateneo students.
17-year-old Jose Ryan Pelongco, Ripples '06 Opinion editor, shared the silver medal with Llorente in Editorial Writing (English). Pelongco, who was last year's Rotary Boy City Mayor, is currently a Management Economics student of AdMU.
This school year's editor in chief of Ripples, Victor Robinson III, also got his cut of the winning pie placing second in news Writing (English). His co-worker, associate editor Stephanie Keiko Enarbia, also carved her name in the writing niche and ended a runner-up victor in News Writing (Filipino).
Senior Robinson, 16, and junior Enarbia, 15, are both top academic performers in their respective year levels in Ateneo de Iloilo. The two have gone through with the NSPC and have received a number of journalism accolades in various local and regional contests. Robinson is presently the head of the Guild of High School Writers in Western Visayas.
All in all, AdI-SMCS got three P10,000-worth first place awards and four runner-up trophies, making it the most be-medalled campus publication for both English and Filipino categories this year.
Other schools that likewise bagged Yuyitung awards are Chiang Kai Shek College, St. Stephen's High School, Philippine Cultural High School, Makati Hope Christian College, Davao Christian High School, St. Peter the Apostle School, Uno High School, Camarines Norte Chung Hua High School, Grace Christian High School, Jubilee Christian Academy, and Bacolod Tay Tung High School, among others.
Awarding of winners is set early August this year.
Ripples