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news help the poor through innovative research 06222016
The Department of Science and Technology Region VII Director Edilberto Paradela urged scientists in the Visayas to do researches that promote “inclusive development.” Speaking before the participants in the scientist conference at the University of San Jose Recoletos (USJR) Auditorium, Paradela stressed doing such fulfills the scientists’ moral and social duties to help alleviate the living condition of grass root communities.

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news taste of the filipino culture 06172016
The teacher-participants and observers of the ongoing 2016 ASEAN Plus Three Junior Science Odyssey (APTJSO) got a taste of the Filipino culture during their Amazing Race activity at the Forest Club Eco Resort in Bay, Laguna. The participants eagerly tried the dance of tinikling and the game of kadang-kadang, tasted laing, learned a few Filipino words, and played the folk song Leron-Leron Sinta by tinkering with regular bottles. The 2016 APTJSO runs from June 13 to 18 at the University of the Philippines Los Baños, where 26 teams of 12-15-year-old students, gifted in science, convene once a year to learn and experience more about science and foster camaraderie and networking in the APT region. (Photos by Geraldine B. Ducusin, S&T Media Service and University of the Philippines Los Baños)

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INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS PLANT TREES IN MAKILING | Participants in the 5th ASEAN Plus Three Junior Odyssey or APTJSO climbed up the Makiling Botanical Garden in the University of the Philippines Los Baños for a tree planting activity as their own little way of helping Mother Earth cope with climate change. The 5th APTJSO, with the theme “Climate Change and the Rainforest,” is an annual international competition among the youth who are gifted in science. Contestants come from countries in the ASEAN region plus Sweden, Korea, and China.“Most of the kids have not been to the forest or the real rainforest, so this is time for them to experience what it is like to be in the forest,” Ruby Cristobal of Department of Science and Technology - Science Education Institute said. “At the same (the activity enables the students) to contribute to enriching this resource, which is slowly being affected by climate change.” (Photo by Gerry Palad/ Text by Ma. Lotuslei Dimagiba)

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High school students competing in the 5th ASEAN Plus Three Junior Science Odyssey (APTJSO) in UP Los Baños took on the challenge from leaders of the local science communityto study how scientists can better assess the effects of climate change on the world’s rainforests.