Project Citizen!

For the past few days, we've been obsessing about making our entry for the first-ever North Luzon Project Citizen Showcase. You see, since the start of its run here in the country, it has only ever been held in Manila, so we were excited to learn that, finally, we Northerners could participate.

This was just last week, February 1, 2011, where we went to school for our write-shop and documentation. All of 3Sci was invited to come that day, but we missed a few. It was also Adrich's birthday that day, and as of that day, he is the oldest in our class. :D

Well, we TRIED to work on our project.... But as the saying goes, "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy." So, we had a little fun, failed a few times, but in the end, we got down to work. :)

Here we are, (Christian, Cris, Drich and I) playing a game on my iPod Touch as we waited for Patrick to critique our work. As little time we were given that day, we still finished a lot of work. From studying laws and policies passed, to thinking of a new policy, we were able to put our heads to good use.

3 Sci really worked hard as a team to finish our project, and we were glad to have had fun while we were at it. We never fail to enjoy our time spent together :)

DOOMSDAY 

- the day of the competition proper, Februaury 5, 2011, at SLU-LHS Function Hall.

Here we are, waiting for our lunch. Unfortunately, Jeremy was in another place at the time, practicing his lines. He was too busy to join in. :( Anyways, here are some of the speakers, Marc, me, Patrick and Erika :D

 And our presentation :) Marc was in charge of the introduction, Jeremy on the background, Erika on the existing policies, Patrick on our proposed policy, and I on the action plan. We had three judges, one of which was Sir Bradford Villamar. Patrick, Erika and I are very familiar with him, because we were students under the Young Louisian Writers, which was moderated by Sir Brady then.

 Of course, we had the full support of the class. :) And guess what? WE WON! We're going to the Nationals, and we are all so proud of ourselves. I really think that our presentation was going to lose, but then I was wrong. We were actually announced first as the winners, and we got a lot of freebies from that day. I really was a fun day for all of us. :)

 

 Here is one of the winning teams, the 4th Year team of Baguio City National High School. They deserved their win, because we saw part of their presentation, and they really were good.

I personally found new friends in BCNHS, the third year team. Andra and Genjo :) Some of their students were actually my classmates in elementary, and I enjoyed seeing them after so long. I catched up with Meghan, and said hello to Angelo :D

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CREDITS TO: Marc Pulmano for his father's awesome camera, a very fine DSLR :))