{"id":2963,"date":"2025-06-08T02:33:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T18:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gordoncollege.edu.ph\/w3\/?p=2963"},"modified":"2025-06-10T18:06:53","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T10:06:53","slug":"2000-change-makers-attend-nstp-grad-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gordoncollege.edu.ph\/w3\/2000-change-makers-attend-nstp-grad-25\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201c2,000 change-makers\u201d attend NSTP grad \u201825"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two thousand Gordon College (GC) students enrolled in their National Service and Training Program (NSTP) courses filled the SMX Convention Center, Olongapo City, on Wednesday, for this year\u2019s NSTP Graduation Ceremony.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the theme, \u201cVolunteerism in Action: Shaping Leaders, Strengthening Community\u201d, this year\u2019s batch of NSTP graduates was graced by Miss Manila 2014 Dr. Krischelle D. Halili.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. <a><\/a>Halili emphasized that leadership is an \u201cact not for yourself, but for others\u201d in her address. \u201cServe something greater than yourself and take your friends with you.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moreover, she called on students to love the country and God while also channeling \u2018tech natives\u2019 to participate in online community initiatives as well as community services and university council activities on-site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Leading the initial confirmation of the graduates, Vice President for Academic Affairs Dr. Darwin P. Paguio also delivered his special message, focusing on the impact of genuine leadership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTrue leadership is not defined merely by title or accolades but by the impact you make in the lives of others,\u201d he said as he congratulated the \u201ctwo thousand change-makers\u201d afterward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was followed by the awarding of certificates to Literary Training Service (LTS) and Civic Welfare Training Service (CWTS) completers from the different departments of the institution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NSTP Instructor Mr. Hubert Lew Magrata delivered his closing remarks to officially close the program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>____________<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"16\" width=\"16\" alt=\"\u270d\ufe0f\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/te2\/1\/16\/270d.png\"> &amp; <img decoding=\"async\" height=\"16\" width=\"16\" alt=\"\ud83d\udcf7\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/t5d\/1\/16\/1f4f7.png\">: Keane Rafael Abdon | Sports Editor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two thousand Gordon College (GC) students enrolled in their National Service and Training Program (NSTP) courses filled the SMX Convention Center, Olongapo City, on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2964,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[21],"class_list":["post-2963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-nstp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gordoncollege.edu.ph\/w3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gordoncollege.edu.ph\/w3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gordoncollege.edu.ph\/w3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gordoncollege.edu.ph\/w3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gordoncollege.edu.ph\/w3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gordoncollege.edu.ph\/w3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2965,"href":"https:\/\/gordoncollege.edu.ph\/w3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2963\/revisions\/2965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gordoncollege.edu.ph\/w3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gordoncollege.edu.ph\/w3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gordoncollege.edu.ph\/w3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gordoncollege.edu.ph\/w3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}