2 Luzon schools bag top honors for best hometown stories

NAGA City Science High School (NCSHS) and Ilaya Elementary School (IES) took home the grand prizes of the Doon Po Sa Amin community mapping competition conducted by Smart Communications Inc. for its partner schools nationwide.

NCSHS created an original and informative music video about the must-visit places in Naga City such as the Our Lady of Peñafrancia museum, Haciendas de Naga adventure park, Panicuason hot spring resort and Grissini Ristorante. The team also bagged the Best in Impact and Most Active School awards for its music video.

In the primary level division, IES emerged on top, winning the Best in Impact and Most Active School awards for its division, as well. The IES school team created a video where they played the roles of a news anchor and field reporters highlighting the alluring destinations in Tanay, Rizal including the Daranak falls, Regina Rica, San Ildefonso Church, Parola and Kalinawan Cave.

The other winners for the secondary division are the teams from Vinzons Pilot High School with their entry about the life story of Wenceslao Vinzons Sr., Bicol’s freedom fighter during the Japanese occupation (1st place); Naga City Science High School with their video entry on Rafflesia, the largest flower in the world (2nd place); Oton National High School which featured organic farming in Tagbac Elementary School in Iloilo as a solution to the students’ poor academic performance due to malnutrition (3rd place); and Cavite Science National High School with their entry promoting the coffee bean produced in Amadeo, Cavite, the coffee capital of the Philippines (4th place).

For the primary level division, the other winners are the teams from Naga Central School 1 which tackled the many uses of Pili tree and its role in improving the livelihood of the people residing in the region (1st place); Ilaya Elementary School that featured Balaw-Balaw, an exotic food in Tanay, which is a mixture of rice, shrimp, coconut milk and other spices fermented for three days (2nd place); San Roque Central Elementary School with their music video entry about People’s Park in Davao (3rd place,); and Naga Central School 1 which featured inspiring stories of five Bicolanos who have risen above adversities (4th place).

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