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news starbooks light up bohol schools1 03302017
Marjorie Lamoste, Grade 11 student of the PagnitoanNational High School in Maribojoc, Bohol tries her hand at research using the Science and Technology Academic and Research-Based Openly Operated Kiosks or STARBOOKS, a stand-alone digital S&T library-in-a box. Developed by the Department of Science and Technology – Science and Technology Information Institute (DOST-STII), STARBOOKS is fully loaded with S&T information materials such as books, journals, theses, videos, news articles, and others, that are available offline. DOST-STII designed STARBOOKS to run without Internet to make S&T materials accessible to students, researchers, and teachers in the countryside that have limited access to libraries and the Internet. Maribojoc, a fourth-class town in Bohol with a hilly terrain, is 14 kilometers away from the bustling Tagbilaran City and has limited transportation service. Pagnitoan National High Schoolwas one of the six Bohol schools that received STARBOOKS units through DOST-STII’s partners, the Children’s Hour and Sun Life Foundation, and facilitated by the DOST=Bohol.Lamoste led the students in thanking DOST “for the gift” and pledged that students will use STARBOOKS in research activities. (Photo and text by Framelia V. Anonas, S&T Media Service, DOST-STII)

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If there is anything brewing in Department of Science and Technology (DOST) Cebu nowadays, it is on how to make Tuburan ground coffee hot. This is not about temperature but about packaging coffee grounds to make it more competitive in the local and global market.

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Scientific and technological (S&T) activities in the Philippines and Thailand recently got a big push as science and technology leaders in both countries signed a legally binding agreement to work together in promoting the development of S&T cooperation between said countries.

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A library-in-a-box that offers science and technology (S&T) information materials to students and researchers even in remote areas recently knocked two awards in the recent 52nd Anvil Awards at Shangri-La Makati. STARBOOKS, or the Science and Technology Academic and Research-Based Openly Operated Kiosks, got the Gold in the Anvil Award for Public Relations Program: Directed at Specific Stakeholders, Students, Entrepreneurs, LGUs, Communities, and Indigenous Peoples; and Silver in the Anvil Award for Public Relations Tool: Multimedia/Digital.