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the project presentation segment, which saw the ladies arriving onstage with their robots. The women were trained via Skype by US-based Robotic Engineer Terrence Southern.
The contestants were trained in coding the robot and took turns doing this for the judges who questioned them on the knowledge they would have gained during their training experience. The winner of the project presentation automatically made it into the top four and Gabrielle ran away with this category.
The evening gown segment followed, and it was noted by National Director Melissa Varswyk that the contestants would have come up with all of the designs they wore or most of it. The question and answer segment came after this with them being questioned by the judges based on what they would have learnt at the lectures given by Dr Norman Ng-A-Qui of Cuffy 250 Committee in the few months running up to the pageant. This was a bit of a challenge for the contestants, but they pulled through. Once this segment ended, last year’s queen Amaniah Cort took her final walk. aking the top four with Gabrielle were Colleen Bovell, Feliciann Elliot and Shelisa Depradine. The scores which would have been compounded up until then were wiped clean and each contestant was given another chance at winning by answering the final question. Gabrielle’s question read: “Caricom nations have recognized this as the International Decade for People of African Descent. One of the focal points is reparation. What are your views on reparation?” Gabrielle responded, “When it comes to reparation I know
the first thing that many people ask is do we as black people deserve it? and I will agree and say yes we do deserve reparation. What will we do with the reparation? I will suggest that they open schools and keep courses that will educate our young people more about who they were before slavery. We will use the reparation money as a form of building back our African youths. We’re building back the culture that they broke, we’re building back our nation.” While Feliciann and Shelisa supported reparation, Colleen opposed it.
Gabrielle still scored the highest at 340 with Colleen at 315, Feliciann 302 and Shelisa 280.5.
The winners of the awards were: Best Introduction (Colleen), Best Project (Gabrielle), Best Evening Wear (Gabrielle and Feliciann), Best in the Question and Answer Segment (Colleen) and taking the spot for the
People’s Choice Award was Colleen coming in with 4,000 plus votes.
The other contestants were Patrina Cummings, Tandika Moore and Sithendisi Cameron. Each contestant received a $350,000 grant from Karis Monroe of Fabulous Home International towards building their own homes. The queen received a cash prize of $100,000. Those winning awards received trophies while the top four received bouquets.
The emcee was Mondale Smith and judges were: Stacey Mollison (CEO of Libra Management, Atlanta. Georgia), Joy Agness (Executive Director of Joy Agness Events, Florida), Lance Mars (Director – GWI), Dr Karis Munroe (CEO of Fabulous Homes International) and Tomika Boatswain (Director of Culture, Ministry of Education).