Jose Alberto Ampuero, a twelfth grader, guided by Literature teacher Antonio Miguez, participated and won first place in the IX Interscholastic Creative Writing Contest: A Christmas Tale, organized by Universidad Catolica Santiago de Guayaquil (UCSG), His story, “8-Bit Jingle on a Light Flashing Red, Green and Nothing”, went through a two-stage process of selection, from Nov. 28th to Dec. 12, to win first place:
First, the narrative was selected, among other works, due to its high level of creativity, diction and message to be read in the finals. Then, in this last stage, Jose Alberto had to narrate his story, conveying his character’s feelings and emotions, in front of an audience and the members of the jury.