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Best Brains Recognized
posted (November 6, 2012)
The names of Belize's top students in this year's C-SEC and CAPE Exams have been released.

Dorien Villafranco from Saint John's Juniour College did the best on CAPE and so he wins the Belize Scholarship for 2012. Villafranco - who was also the top CSEC candidate two years ago - earned six Grade I's in Caribbean Studies, Communication Studies, Physics Units 1 and 2, and Pure Mathematics Units 1 and 2.

In the high school's CSEC exam, Juana Meza of Stann Creek Ecumenical College received the most outstanding candidate. She earned thirteen Grade one's at the General Proficiency in: Biology, Chemistry, English A and B), Information Technology, Mathematics, Physics, Religious Education, Social Studies, Spanish, Physical Education and Sport, Human and Social Biology and Electrical and Electronic Technology and two Grade three's in Caribbean History and Economics.

Meza also achieved first place in the Sciences Subject Group and first in Spanish in Belize. Kaylyn Habet of St Catherine Academy obtained second place in the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate. She had twelve Grade ones at the General Proficiency in Biology, English A and B, Information Technology, Integrated Science, Mathematics, Office Administration, Physics, Social Studies, Spanish, Physical Education and Sport and Human and Social Biology and one Grade two in Chemistry.

Today 7 news spoke with the Dean of St Johns Junior college who told us that three of their students took first, second and thirst place for the CAPE examinations.

Mirta Peralta, Dean SJCJC
"There of them sat 6 CAPE examinations; Dorian having all grade 1s for pure mathematics unit 1 and 2; for physics and Caribbean Studies and Communication Studies, so it was remarkable. We are so proud of them, we are very proud of our teachers. we are also proud of the other students that we are also receiving individual awards for 15 out of the 28 subjects - individual subjects, we are also proud of those students."

"We are also very proud because here at St. John's College it is not only about the academic excellence but also about the holistic education; it is about the extracurricular activities and we feel that that is our mission and that is exactly what we do here. We have forums, we have spiritual activities to enhance, again not only the academics but also the spiritual - the holistic approach of education."

"We also want to invite all students from across the country because Dorien Villafranco is actually from Belmopan, so we attract students from across the country every year, but again we want to invite these students to come to SJC, we welcome them to come. We also ask parents from across the country to come in, to query, to find out what SJC is about and so we invite them to be a part of our SJC family."

The Eighteenth Annual CXC National Awards Ceremony is scheduled to be held on November 22 at the Bliss Centre for the Performing Arts.


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