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Gina P. Lopez, managing director of ABS-CBN Lingkod Kapamilya Foundation, singled out a Department of Science and Technology (DOST) program for community empowerment as a way to get the Philippines out of poverty.

Dubbed as Community Empowerment through Science and Technology or CEST, the program is targeting to empower the poorest and most depressed communities in the country, via S&T interventions in health and nutrition, water and sanitation, basic education and literacy, livelihood/economic enterprise development, and disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation.

“We can get our country out of poverty,” said Lopez during the CEST Forum, one of the events during the recently concluded 2015 National Science and Technology Week at the SMX Convention Center in Pasay City last July 27.

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It was a clash of science smarts alright, but it was no quiz bee inside an auditorium.

Instead of contestants quietly sitting on chairs onstage, ready to answer science questions fielded to them by the quizmaster, competitors huddled around their tables excitedly to create and perform fun, science-based items and experiments amidst Manila Ocean Park’s amazing aquatic displays.

Tinkering with everyday materials like sticks, nails, strings, pencils, straws, bond paper, tape, eggs, and others, each team raced against time to prove that their school is the best and that they’ve got the smarts.

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High school students from around Metro Manila and Laguna took part in the Likhang SIPAG On-the-Spot Poster Making Contest of the Department of Science and Technology- Philippine Council for Agriculture, Aquatic and Natural Resources Research and Development (DOST-PCAARRD) during the last day celebration of the 2015 National Science and Technology Week (NSTW).

Now on its second year, the contest aims to dramatize the linkage between the science and technology (S&T) sector and education sector in achieving a strong S&T-based agri-economy as the country continually innovates for global competitiveness.

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The Department of Science and Technology-Information and Communications Technology (DOST-ICT) Office is aiming for 500,000 Filipinos in the countryside to work freelance via different online job platforms by 2016.

This was shared by Emmy Lou V. Delfin, program manager of ICT Office’s e-Innovation Group, during the forum on Rural Impact Sourcing last July 28, 2015 at SMX Convention Center in Pasay City as part of the recent National Science and Technology Week (NSTW).