DOST funds community empowerment program to So. Leyte university
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Bontoc, Southern Leyte – Department of Science and Technology – VIII Regional Director Edgar Esperancilla recently turned over P400,000 funding to Southern Leyte State University – Bontoc Campus for the project “Strengthening and Monitoring of Community Empowerment through Science and Technology (CEST) Program in Region 8”. Said project was conceptualized by SLSU-Bontoc and DOST 8 in the last quarter of CY 2014.
Developed by the DOST, the CEST program aims to provide livelihood and alleviate poverty in communities. Campus Administator Madel Calva received the funding.
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COUNTRY’S FIRST SCIENCE DIGITAL LIB BY DOST NOW IN CAPIZ U
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COUNTRY’S FIRST SCIENCE DIGITAL LIB BY DOST NOW IN CAPIZ U. The Department of Science and Technology-Science and Technology Information Institute (DOST-STII) recently handed over 35 units of STARBOOKS (Science and Technology Academic and Research-Based Openly Operated Kiosk Station) to Capiz State University (CAPSU) in Roxas City, Capiz. A project of STII, STARBOOKS is the first science digital library in the Philippines. It can be accessed without Internet connection and contains text, video and audio materials from local and international sources Including Britannica Ultimate Encyclopedia. The 35 units will be distributed to ten CAPSU campuses namely Roxas City (main campus), Burias, Dumarao, Sigma, Pilar, Pontevedra, Mambusao, Dayao, Sapian, and Tapaz campuses. Photo above shows library staff and campus administrators from the ten CAPSU campuses during a STARBOOKS training session conducted by STII after the formal turnover rites at the CAPSU Roxas City campus last April 30, 2015. (Text and photos by Espie Angelica A. de Leon, S&T Media Service, DOST-STII)
DOST and Pingol Metal Crafts: A team up for metal casting coup
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“Yung talent mo, tama ng puhunan sa pagnenegosyo mo,” (Your skill is enough capital to start a business) was what a brother (priest) from Don Bosco told Chris Pingol’s grandfather Mamerto Pingol, when the latter was having apprehension over how to get started in the business of metalcraft that largely produces church-related products.
Thus, was his motivation to put up a metalcraft business which manufactured the censer used in the religious incense of Pope Francis’ masses in Tacloban, Luneta and University of Sto. Tomas.
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DOST helps light up Ilocos Norte
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The province of Ilocos Norte is among the “brightest” in the Philippines, as every barangay now enjoys the benefits of electricity.
Playing a key role in the province’s rural electrification program is a forestry technology called high pressure sap displacement that is used in treating electric poles on-site.
Developed by the Department of Science and Technology’s Forest Products Research and Development Institute (DOST-FPRDI), this method prolongs the service life of power and telecommunication poles. It is also used in treating bamboo poles for fishpens, poles for bridges, wharves and mining operations, and pole-type building materials.