During Junior High School, I was the layout artist for our English school publication. I also helped in layouting and editing our Filipino publication back then and won 8th place with the page I worked on during RSPC or the Regional Schools' Press Conference.

When I went to Senior High School, I became the layout artist as well, this time, both in English and Filipino.

With those years, I was part of a team created for Collaborative Desktop Publishing and Online Publishing. These are categories within a journalism competition. Within my experience of being the layout artist, I always reached regional levels with my team during journalism contests or most commonly known as the Schools' Press Conference.

During my early years in the journalism field, I first entered the sphere of feature writing. I competed with the title of a science feature writer against more then 80 participants and won the fourth place in a regional contest - just a place behind the eligibility to enter nationals.

In association with that, I continuously compete in essay writing contests and other competitions related.