The Primary School Social Studies competition was held this morning at the Bliss Center. It was a tough competition with even tougher questions but students representing their schools seemed like experts on all the History topics. 7News was there and got to speak to an organizer as well as the top finishers.
Albert Avila, Community Liason Officer for the Belize City House of Culture and the Downtown Rejuvenation Project
"Today the competition is to focus on the history of Belize City so most of the questions that are in this competition are Belize City focused and like I said because the students are our future we want them to be involved we want them to know our history and the significance."
Sahar Vasquez, reporter
"How does it feel to be the first place winner of this event?"
Hailey Estelle, Holy Redeemer (1st Place Winner)
"Exciting."
Sahar Vasquez
"How did you study? Was it a lot of information you had to study? Were you nervous?"
Hailey Estelle, Holy Redeemer (1st Place Winner)
"I was very nervous and there was a lot to study."
Sahar Vasquez
"Did you expect to do so well?"
Evanna Mercado, Buttonwood Bay School (2nd Place Winner)
"I did not expect do so well but I did study very hard."
Melissa Quan, Queen Square Anglican School (3rd Place Winner)
"I really studied after I went home and I was really happy and frustrated in one but when I came in the third place I was really happy."
Tomorrow days 2 of the zone elimination will commence and the finalists from the two zone eliminations will battle it out to see who is the History Champion. All students received a tablet and certificate for participating.
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