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John Emmanuel Aquino Colico (born December 7, 2005), better known as Emmanuel Colico, is an amateur Filipino astrophotographer, campus journalist, news writer and aspiring hydrologist. He is known for his achievements done in his elementary and high school days, for successively competing the 2017 Marikina 2nd District, Marikina Division and Metro Manila Regional Schools Press Conference and Contest (RSPCC) under Susan Guimbaolibot as a proctor and coach, and the 2018-2019 Metrobank-MTAP DepEd Mathematics Challenge (MMC) under Veronica Cruz and Jocelyn Hulip as coaches.

Early Days
Started as a Grade 5 feature writer (manunulat ng lathalain) way back 2016, he eventually backed off from the aforementioned journalism category to fill the news writing team of the same grade level as the coach for the news writing team noticed that their team is lacking of participants.

District Schools Press Conference
After months of training, he competed as a campus news writer in the 2017 Marikina 2nd District Schools Press Conference and Contest held in Concepcion Elementary School in Marikina City. He got a place in the news writing category that made him succeed through the next and higher press conference and contest.

Division Schools Press Conference
Moving up to this higher competition, he competed as still a news writer in the 2017 Marikina City Division Schools Press Conference held in National Christian Life College (NCLC) - Main Campus in Marikina City. Afterwards, he succeeded again for taking a qualifiable place to advance to the next and higher competition.

Regional Schools Press Conference
Just a step away from the nationals, he competed again as a news writer in the 2017 Metro Manila Regional Schools Press Conference held in San Francisco High School in Quezon City. Winning the 6th place in the news writing category, he broke the record for Nangka Elementray School as the school's first ever campus journalist to attain such place in a regional schools press conference and contest.