{"id":7311,"date":"2025-11-06T09:11:29","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T00:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cms.aichi-c.ed.jp\/kdc-mas\/?p=7311"},"modified":"2025-11-06T09:16:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T00:16:15","slug":"international-course-news-no-73-speech-contest-prefectural-finals-held-at-nagoya-international-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cms.aichi-c.ed.jp\/kdc-mas\/2025\/11\/international-course-news-no-73-speech-contest-prefectural-finals-held-at-nagoya-international-center.html","title":{"rendered":"International Course NEWS No.73 Speech Contest Prefectural Finals Held at Nagoya International Center"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On Saturday, November 1st<strong>, the Prefectural Finals of the Speech Contest<\/strong> were held at the Annex Hall of the Nagoya International Center. Thirteen students who had won first or second place in their regional qualifying rounds gathered for the event. From Bihoku High School, <strong>Yura Nishibe (2nd year, International Culture Course)<\/strong> and <strong>Ebrar Sensoy (1st year, International Culture Course)<\/strong> proudly represented their school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the same day, other students from the International Culture Course\u2014one 2nd-year student,<strong> Saya Ota <\/strong>and<strong> Sae Legnau<\/strong> and two 1st-year students<strong>, Miki Onuki <\/strong>and<strong> Erissa Santos<\/strong>\u2014took on important roles as <strong>moderators and timekeepers <\/strong>for the contest. This marks the third consecutive year that students from Bihoku have been entrusted with these responsibilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"686\" height=\"386\" data-id=\"7296\" src=\"http:\/\/cms.aichi-c.ed.jp\/kdc-mas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-12.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7296\" srcset=\"http:\/\/cms.aichi-c.ed.jp\/kdc-mas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-12.png 686w, http:\/\/cms.aichi-c.ed.jp\/kdc-mas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-12-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 686px) 100vw, 686px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"708\" height=\"399\" data-id=\"7297\" src=\"http:\/\/cms.aichi-c.ed.jp\/kdc-mas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-13.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7297\" srcset=\"http:\/\/cms.aichi-c.ed.jp\/kdc-mas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-13.png 708w, http:\/\/cms.aichi-c.ed.jp\/kdc-mas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-13-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 708px) 100vw, 708px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>For students in Division II (those with educational experience in English-speaking countries), a Q&amp;A session followed their speeches, giving them a chance to share more about the background and context of their presentations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Results:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ebrar Sensoy, a 1st-year student in the International Culture Course,<\/strong> won an impressive <strong>second place<\/strong>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She has earned a spot in <strong>the Tokai-Hokuriku Block Contest<\/strong>, which will be held at the Gifu Prefectural Library on Sunday, November 23rd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> The intense (and maybe slightly painful?) practice sessions continue&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, November 1st, the Prefectural Finals of the Speech Contest were held at the Annex Hall &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7300,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cms.aichi-c.ed.jp\/kdc-mas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7311"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cms.aichi-c.ed.jp\/kdc-mas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cms.aichi-c.ed.jp\/kdc-mas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cms.aichi-c.ed.jp\/kdc-mas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cms.aichi-c.ed.jp\/kdc-mas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7311"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/cms.aichi-c.ed.jp\/kdc-mas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7339,"href":"http:\/\/cms.aichi-c.ed.jp\/kdc-mas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7311\/revisions\/7339"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cms.aichi-c.ed.jp\/kdc-mas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cms.aichi-c.ed.jp\/kdc-mas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cms.aichi-c.ed.jp\/kdc-mas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}