Region III claimed its third consecutive overall championship title as it emerged victor in the 2012 National Schools Press Conference held at Puerto Princesa, Palawan, April 9-13.
The elementary level placed first in the combined rank of individual and group contest categories while the secondary level landed on third.
National Capital Region came next to Region III in the overall ranking and Region V on the third.
Cabanatuan City delegates who were part of the regional delegation contributed to the success of the team. One of these is Jean Michelle Cosico of Honorato C. Perez Memorial Science High School who grabbed the 7th place in Feature Writing-English category, besting other 44 feature student-writers in the country.
Members of DepED Cabanatuan City family will celebrate tomorrow, March 13, as they join hands in welcoming Dr. Esperanza L. Laya as the new Schools Division Superintendent of the Division replacing Mr. Malcolm S. Garma who will take the post of Supt. Perlita C. Basa in the Division of Zambales anytime this week.
Expected to grace the Turnover Ceremony is Dr. Isabelita M. Borres, Regional Director of DepED Region III. The Turnover Ceremony is slated in the afternoon at the Teachers Hall, Division Office.
Expecting the likely addition of online writing as a group category in the schools press conferences, the Office of Media and ICT conducted a training-workshop on October 5-7 at the Teachers’ Hall, DepED Cabanatuan City Division Office.
Student-journalists and school paper advisers from both public and private elementary and secondary schools in the division of Cabanatuan City attended the training.
Basic website design and construction using a free drag-and-drop webpage editor Weebly was taught to the student -participants assigned by their respective teams as web designer.
“The output website requires the barebones essentials only,” Glenn L Agustin, Education Program Supervisor for Media and ICT, said during the orientation in the opening program.
