Banwag AY 2016-2017 Vol. 7 No. 2

SHS NEWS
Melit Jane Yu
tops this year’s
academic ranking
Juan Miguel Rodriguez
Landed on the spot as with High Honors, Melit Jane
Rosales Yu garnered the average grade of 96.2 and was
reigned as the overall top 1 amongst the three strands of
the Senior High School department in St. Michael’s College.
With minor awards as second place in the DSPC Radio
Broadcasting and champion in the YAPIS Impromptu Speech
competition. She was formally awarded last March 25, 2017
in the St. Joseph gymnasium along with the other students
with awards and who excelled academically.
At the end of the school year, the Academic
Excellence Award is given to learners from grades 1 to 12
who have attained a general average of at least 90 and a
passing final grade in all learning areas with no grades below
85. Despite having the title as Top 1, Melit also had led the
senior high school students through her governance as the
President of the Central Student Government. Moreover, she
proved that academics an leadership may be a hard thing to
balance and manage but she proved people wrong.
Senior High
as
the House of Champions
Juan Miguel Rodriguez
It was the first commencement of the Senior High
School in St. Michael’s College and despite of the diversity,
everyone eventually achieved unity. From the students coming
from distinct and different junior high schools, squads, social
groups and even in religion, it signified as a challenge upon
us. When the students are united by shared values and goals
of a true Michaelite, we can move together, synchronizing
our strengths to attain things that none could attain alone.
Unity is built around a common purpose that creates a shared
identity. And that is the identity of being a champion.
Months had passed and since then, we have proven
to the society and to ourselves that we are triumphant
champions. Together, we had overflowing success towards
being hailed as the Over-All Champion both in the categories
of English and Filipino in the Divisions Schools Press
Conference which is accompanied by innumerable first places
that gave us the opportunity to be the representatives of Iligan
City in the Regionals Schools Press Conference. And again,
we also had been praised as the Over-All Champion amongst
the myriad of schools competing in the Youth Advocators
Productive Integrated Service (YAPIS) event. In the field
of journalism, there are a large number of students in St.
Michael’s College particularly in Senior High School who are
finalists to the 3rd Mindanao Journalism Excellence Awards
under the categories of News Writing, Feature Writing, and
Sports Writing.
Amidst the trophies, gold medals and the awards,
what really makes a champion? You see, the real champions in
life are those who have the courage to see the unimaginable.
They are the people who overcome and endure through all
difficulty and dilemma. They learn from their mistakes, and
no matter what, they never give up on their dreams. It is the
process of ripping off the masks of solitude, silence and low
self-esteem of themselves. At the end of the day, we should
still seek refuge and guidance to God. We all have stories to
tell, however this is just the beginning of our journey towards
becoming a real champion and proving it to the world that we
can and we will.
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