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The Department of Science and Technology-Technology Application and Promotion Institute (DOST-TAPI) is holding an invention contest at the Event Center of the LimKetKai Mall in Cagayan de Oro City with 78 entries vying for six categories.

“We are holding this biennial event in every region to give recognition to talents and inventors,” said Science Secretary Mario G. Montejo of the DOST-sponsored Regional Invention Contest and Exhibits or RICE.

An inventor himself who bagged a creative research award several years ago, Montejo firmly believes that local technology works.

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Some 79 provinces will be hit by El Niño before 2015 ends, according to Sec. Mario G. Montejo of the Department of Science and Technology.

“The El Niño phenomenon will be at its worst this year, worse (El Niño) since 1997,” Sec. Montejo announced at Ozamiz City during the first step of the Science Nation Tour in Northern Mindanao last Aug 20.

Montejo said that starting September, 12 provinces will begin in to experience dry conditions that are below normal. “By October, dry spell and drought conditions will affect 29 provinces, and by the end of the year, the number will rise to 79,” he said.

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Dr. Enrico , leader of the DREAM-LiDAR or the Disaster Risk and Exposure Assessment for Mitigation project of the Department of Science and Technology, shows a copy of the high resolution flood hazard maps of the province of Palawan where 10 out of the 15 river basins of the province of Palawan have been mapped. Dr. Paringit said that mapping will be completed by the end of the year. Aside from identification of safe and risky areas, the DREAM-LiDAR high resolution hazard maps can also be used for other local government projects such as comprehensive land use and tax mapping, among others Receiving the electronic copy of the map is Puerto Prinsesa Mayor Lucilo Bayron as witnessed by DOST Region IV-B Director Ma. Josefina Abilay. (Photo by Ceajay Valerio, S&T Media Service, DOST-STII)   

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At first, you might think "I Hear U" is just a textspeak, sounding hip especially for today's text generation. But I Hear U somewhere in Palawan is beyond that. It is an android mobile application to help persons with hearing impairment learn the ropes on finger spelling or communicating using alpha and numerical systems through hand gestures.   

While most teens are busy posting status messages and selfies, Marian Elaine Dechaves and Charmaine Aubrey Galindez are doing something more serious for their age. They hang out longer on their computers, not to post their outfits of the day or OOTDs, throwback Thursday or TBT photos, and hashtags but rather, they are writing program codes which someday could become huge especially in the age of the Internet of Things.