By Franklin P. Gumapon
DIPOLOG CITY – Budding campus writers from the different elementary and high schools
in Zamboanga del Norte have converged here recently for the annual provincial
schools press conference with the theme, “Campus Journalism and
Transformational Leadership.”
Dr. Fe J. Lakian,
English supervisor, bared that some 300 student-participants had attended the
three-day activity which comprised lectures and contests on newswriting,
feature writing, sports writing, science and health writing, copyreading and
headline writing, editorial cartoon and photojournalism.
Lakian said the top
seven winners of each category would be qualified to participate in the
regional press conference.
The regional press
conference is now going on in Pagadian City starting Dec. 11-13.
Prior to the conduct of
the provincial press conference, the Zamboanga del Norte Press Club (ZNPC) held
free journalism seminars for high school students in Zamboanga del Norte and
the cities of Dipolog and Dapitan in July to September.
Providing free
journalistic writing workshops for high school students has evolved into a
regular project of the press club in order to help the schools hone the writing
skills of their students.
A number of “press club
alumni” had managed to win awards in the regional and national press
conferences. Some of whom are now successful professionals.
One of the successful
“press club alumni” is the vice mayor of Polanco town, Atty. Faith C. Penados,
who during her high school days emerged as champion in an essay writing contest
sponsored by the club. (PIA9)