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Time to vote for the Best of the Pacific 2019

The holidays are behind us and it’s time once again to turn your attention to the yearly tradition unlike any other – Best of the Pacific voting season!
For the past 18 years, our annual Best of the Pacific magazine has been the authority on the best places YOU need to go in the Pacific. How do we know? Because you told us so!
Bella Adams, 6, practices gymnastics on a bar as Yosuke Kinoshita, gymnastics instructor, supervises at the Camp Zama Community Recreation Center Feb. 12 during a SKIES Unlimited gymnastics class. (Photo Credit: Wendy Brown, U.S. Army Garrison Japan Public Affairs)
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Camp Zama youth gymnastics class balances fun, challenge

Karen Allen, 8, began taking gymnastics classes through SKIES Unlimited at Camp Zama about two months ago, and so far she has added the front handspring to a repertoire that includes the back handspring, back walkover, cartwheel, handstand and round-off.
The Air Force Culture and Language Center at Air University, Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala. hosts this symposium each year providing a platform for academic exchange on topics specific to language, region and culture education in the military. The symposium is March 27-29 and the theme is “Intercultural operability.” (U.S. Air Force Courtesy graphic)
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Registration open for Air University’s 4th LREC Symposium

Registration is now open for Air University’s 4th annual Language, Regional Expertise and Culture Symposium.
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Track and Field: Former Pacific gridders to play in college

What a long way Regine Tugade has come since her days of setting northwest Pacific high school records in track and field sprints in her high school days on Guam.
U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Mason Roy
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Karyo High School, Shunan City Children’s International Performance Group visit MCAS Iwakuni for cultural exchange, performance

Japanese students, teachers, parents and performers from Karyo High School and the Shunan City Children’s International Performance Group visited Matthew C. Perry High School to engage in cultural exchanges on Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni.
The Education for Seapower (E4S) study was a clean-sheet review of naval learning and focused on flagship institutions like the U.S. Naval Academy, Naval Postgraduate School, and Naval and Marine War Colleges, along with a fresh look at the relationships with civilian academic institutions and corporate learning structures. The study team developed a series of observations and recommendations for continuous learning throughout the naval services. (U.S. Navy graphic by Kirsten M. Sisson/Released)
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Department of the Navy announces new education initiatives

The Department of the Navy (DoN) released its Education for Seapower report Feb. 12, along with the Secretary of the Navy’s action memorandum providing the way forward for the new education initiatives for the department.
U.S. Navy photo by Chief Mass Communication Specialist Ben Farone/Released
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Terao Elementary School visits NAF Atsugi

Aviation Maintenance Administrationman 1st Class Bernadette Terry, left, from Honolulu, Hawaii and Logistics Specialist 1st Class Dexter Lewis, right, from Mandeville, Jamaica chat with students as part of an English language exchange program between Naval Air Facility (NAF) Atsugi and Terao Elementary School.
E.J. King's Dyson Robinson leapfrogs Nile C. Kinnick's Rodrick Bell while Cobras teammate Isaiah Williams watches during Friday's DODEA-Japan Tournament boys final. The Red Devils won 73-53. (EMMANESTA STOVALL/SPECIAL TO STRIPES)
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Basketball: Balanced Kinnick attack too much for King

Nile C. Kinnick’s balanced scoring attack proved more than a match for E.J. King’s boys and primary weapon Dyson Robinson.
Students from Zama American Middle High School bowl during the "Strike Out Teen Dating Violence" event at the Camp Zama Bowling Center, Camp Zama, Japan, Feb. 6. (Photo Credit: Wendy Brown, U.S. Army Garrison Japan Public Affairs)
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Camp Zama bowls to 'Strike Out Teen Dating Violence'

Stan Austin's question about the "Strike Out Teen Dating Violence" event Feb. 6 at the Camp Zama Bowling Center was purely rhetorical: "Free pizza, free drinks, free dessert, free bowling. What more could a kid ask for?"
Youth members of the Cooking Club at the Sagamihara Family Housing Area School Age Center put their hands on fresh pizza dough they made together Jan. 30 at the SHA Club's Pacific Rim restaurant. The club members were there to learn how to make pepperoni pizza from scratch, and they later ate their own creations. (Photo Credit: Noriko Kudo, U.S. Army Garrison Japan Public Affairs)
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Youth Cooking Club members at Camp Zama make pizza from scratch, gain tasty life lesson

The girls, all members of the Cooking Club at the Sagamihara Family Housing Area School Age Center, got hands-on experience Jan. 30.
A rule enforcing a No Body Contact policy at Bahrain Elementary School is leaving parents with questions and students without high-fives and hugs. The school's principal says it is a temporary measure as they develop a more comprehensive plan. (JOSHUA KARSTEN/STARS & STRIPES)
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‘No touching’ rule at Bahrain base elementary school bans high-fives, games of tag — for now

A strict “no touching” rule that went into effect last week at Bahrain Elementary School has kept grade-schoolers from giving each other hugs and high-fives, prompting some parents to question the policy.
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Wrestling: Edgren matmen stun Kinnick

For the first time in his 14 years at Robert D. Edgren’s wrestling team helm, coach Justin Edmonds’ Eagles scored a regular-season dual-meet upset of defending Far East champion Nile C. Kinnick and placed highest among DODEA-Japan and international teams.
Neal Shusterman, a visiting author mixes up the student’s suggested titles in a writing workshop to create uniquely creative titles for storytelling at Yokota Middle School, February 1, 2019. Shusterman has been a successful children’s and young adult fiction writer for 34 years. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Kyle Johnson)
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Award-winning author visits Yokota Middle school, hosts workshop

Award-winning Author Neal Shusterman visited Yokota Middle School February 1 to answer questions, sign books and host a creative writing workshop.
Bestselling author Neal Shusterman signs a copy of one of his books for a sixth-grader during Shusterman's visit to Yokosuka Middle School, Japan, Thursday, Jan. 31, 2019. (CHRISTIAN LOPEZ/STARS AND STRIPES)
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Bestselling author Neal Shusterman speaks to Yokosuka middle-schoolers about novels, writing

Students were on the edge of their seats Thursday as they listened to New York Times bestselling author Neal Shusterman read from his newest, unreleased novel at Yokosuka Middle School.
MONTEREY, Calif. (Jan. 29, 2019) - Secretary of the Navy Richard V. Spencer, left, and retired Vice Adm. Ronald A. Route, out-going president of the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS), shake hands along with in-coming NPS president, retired Vice Adm. Ann E. Rondeau, during the investiture ceremony as part of the school's change of charge ceremony, Jan. 29, 2019. Rondeau relieved Route to become the 49th president of the university. (Photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Patrick Dionne/Released)
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New president takes the helm at Naval Postgraduate School

Secretary of the Navy Richard V. Spencer presided over the Naval Postgraduate School’s (NPS) change of charge and investiture ceremony, Jan. 29, where retired Vice Adm. Ann E. Rondeau relieved retired Vice Adm. Ronald A. Route to become the 49th president of the university.
Mya Rolison, a sophomore transfer from Maryland, helps lead Seoul American girls in this weekend's Korea Plate Tournament fresh off her first triple-double of the season in the Falcons' 27-point win over Taejon Christian. DAVE ORNAUER/STARS AND STRIPES
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Basketball: Falcon girls starting to soar in final season

After getting off to a poor start in the final season of Seoul American basketball, the Falcons girls team is showing signs of life, having won four of its last five games.