The courier staffers bagged 10 awarads in the regional Tertiary Press Conference at the Daniel Z. Romualdez Memorial Elementary conference Hall, Tolosa, Leyte last November 28-29, 2003.
With theme " Establishing closer Ties Among Tertiary School Publications in Eastern Visayas", the said annual gab was participated in by private teriary schools, state clleges and unversities form all over of Region 8. Among others are University of Eastern Philippines, Eastern Samar State College, Southern Leyte College, Christ The King College, Samar College, Saint Mary College, Leyte State University, Saint Paul Business School, Naval Institute of Technology, Palompon Institute of Technology, Biliran National Agricultural School, University o Eastern Philippines and Tiburcio Tancinco Memorial Institute of Science and Technology.
The representatives of TTMIST-Courier was led by Ms. Grabriela T. Sabencio, Director, Student Publication.Among the staffers were Luzviminda G.Fuerzas, editor-in chief; Thea Christine Mercurio and Rolly Abarro, associate editors; Rex Ecal, Elmer Doropan and Rex Tubellez, artist; Marlon Prudenciado and Emmanuel Cuaninco, news editor,respectively.
The event included arrays of lecture and competitions as well as beauty contest in area of concern in the lectures were editorial writing, editorial cartooning, features writing, sports writing, news writing, copy reading and headlining, desktop publishing and photo journalism.
In the group category, the Courier magazine was judged second place in the region while the Buds ranked third place as the Best Special Publication.
Meanwhile, the staffers brought home eight awards in the individual category of the said gab- Rex Ecal was awarded as 1st place Photojournalism (English), 2nd place Highest Pointer, 2nd place Editorial Writing; Rex Tubelleza ranked place 1st in Editorial Cartooning(Filipino); Marlon Prudenciado got 2nd place in Feature Writing(Filipino); Luzviminda Fuezas was 3rd place in Desktop Publishing (English); Emmanauel Cuanico ranked 3rd place in Coryreading and Headlining while Roll Abarro took the 5th Place in Editorial Writing (English).
Ms. G. T. Sabenicio took the pride of being awarded as one of the best Publication Advisers in Region 8.