The Most Outstanding Secondary School Student of Iloilo for AY 2011-2012.

We met him up-close during the Interview. He had this brooding look of a DotA character. He was cool, confident, and bursting with youthful idealism when he faced the interviewers. His answers were calculated (as if his words were culled from a well-edited piece) and spoke volumes of the exact man whose portfolio impressed us as a rounded student.

Hands down, Rey Phillip Gallos of the Iloilo National High School - he with the highest marks in Academics and Co-curricular, and he with the brooding look as if scanning the horizon for hints of a bright tomorrow - is OSCI’s Most Outstanding Secondary School Student (MOSSS) of Iloilo for AY 2011-2012 having ranked first in the list of the Ten Outstanding Secondary School Students (TOSSS) of Iloilo this academic year.

Gallos has represented his school and the Division of Iloilo (Dept. of Education) successfully in various competitions in the local up to the national level. He is an awarded orator and debater, and a champion in student gatherings for Science and Technology, Chemistry and Statistics. On the lighter side, he is a gifted color artist; his posters have earned raves and medals for him and his school.

Literally and figuratively, Gallos stands tall as the face of the outstanding secondary school students of Iloilo, a sterling exemplar of the student ‘of exemplary personal qualities that are hallmarks of the ideal Filipino youth as hope and future of the Philippines’, as printed in gold on the OSCI plaque.

As a tradition in the OSCI Awarding Ceremony, scheduled on March 16, 2012, the MOSSS will deliver a response speech on behalf of the TOSSS awardees. The school of the MOSSS will also lead the Processional and the Singing of the Pambansang Awit at the start of the program.

Also, as a tradition the MOSSS of the last academic year will be the main host of the awarding program. @