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Kids slug it out for the top prizes in Clash of Class – an annual competition for elementary and high school students featuring exciting science-based games organized by the Department of Science and Technology’s (DOST) Science Education Institute and Philippine Science High School System in cooperation with Manila Ocean Park. The games involved poking sharpened pencils into a bag of water without causing it to leak (top), creating a model jellyfish that will not readily sink (middle), and pouring different liquids into a glass to form a density tower, among others. Clash of Class was one of the activities in DOST’s recent National Science and Technology Week. Baclaran Elementary School Unit II emerged as overall champion in the elementary division. (S&T Media Service)

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A student inscribes messages on a digital interactive board using only her finger at the exhibit area of the Department of Science and Technology’s (DOST) Philippine Science High School System during DOST’s National Science and Technology Week (NSTW) recently held at SMX Convention Center in Pasay City. The interactive board is equipped with sensors, allowing anyone to “write,” and “delete” what was written, by simply whipping his hand through the board. It is among the innovative technologies developed by students from Philippine Science High School (PISAY) and exhibited in NSTW. (S&T Media Service)

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Communications often are down during natural disasters, but the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) has developed a solution for this situation.

This solution is called Project ROGER or Robust and Rapidly Deployable GSM Base Station and Backhaul for Emergency Response network, a deployable GSM voice and SMS emergency network service that function when regular communications are unavailable after a natural disaster.

Project ROGER, funded by DOST and developed by UP Diliman’s Electrical and Electronics Engineering Institute, was conceived after the country’s experience with Super Typhoon Yolanda which destroyed communication lines, hampering rescue and relief efforts by the national and local governments.   

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As part of this year’s celebration of National Science and Technology Week (NSTW), the Department of Science and Technology’s Science and Technology Information Institute (DOST-STII) conducted a writeshop for campus science journalists and mass communications students to mold a new breed of science communicators in the Philippines.

“The Art in Science Journalism Writeshop,” held last July 25, 2015 at SMX Convention Center in Pasay City, gathered communications students, campus paper journalists, and professors from different educational institutions, mostly in Luzon.