Ateneo de Iloilo did it again
In A tougher competition with the best schools in Iloilo locking horns for the most coveted Golden Pen Awards overall championship, Ateneo de Iloilo ended up retaining the crown for the fifth straight year over the weekend, hauling five out of the possible 10 first places, among others, in the yearly journalism joust.
Headed by Golden Pen Awardee Victor Robinson III, Ripples editor in chief, almost all the members of the blue-and-white team made at least one runner up award with three of them garnering the Most Promising Campus Journalist in Western Visayas honors: Angelica Quitasol, Stephanie Keiko Enarbia, and Albert Duanne Thomas Javier.
Ripples, to note, is Ateneo de Iloilo's flagship student publication with 40 organic members and same number of apprentices in the high school department. Only half of which attended the basic journalism and writeshop seminar sponsored by the Department of Education, Regional English Circle and ABS-CBN Iloilo.
The second place went to the 80-student-strong contender Assumption Iloilo, followed by the deep-seated Balasan National High School, Colegio de San Jose, Westbridge School for Boys, St. Joseph School, Yamato School, and Western Visayas College of Science and Technology, in that order./Ripples