Science Nation in the City
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Science Nation in the City. Dr. Aristotle P. Carandang of the Department of Science and Technology’s Science and Technology Information Institute (DOST-STII) visits the Taguig City Hall during its Monday morning flag ceremony last July 14, 2014, to invite City Hall staff to DOST’s 2014 National Science and Technology Week (NSTW) from July 24-28 at the SMX Convention Center, SM Mall of Asia. It was one of STII’s various promotional stops for the upcoming event dubbed “Philippines: A Science Nation Meeting Global Challenges.” A premier annual event of the Department, NSTW will showcase the latest DOST technologies and programs geared towards strengthening the country’s manufacturing industries, SMEs, human resource capabilities, e-governance, and disaster preparedness, among others. Admission to said event is free.
With DOST, Rise Mo Women’s Group in Leyte rises
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When super typhoon Yolanda struck parts of Visayas in November 2013, the Rise Mo Women’s Group in Ormoc, Leyte was affected.
The roof of the building housing their Rice-Mongo-Sesame Ready-to-Cook food blend factory was partially damaged, allowing rainwater to enter the facility and destroy their raw materials, particularly the uncooked rice (bigas) and mung beans (mongo).
DOST aiming for more science scholars
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The Department of Science and Technology’s Science Education Institute (DOST-SEI) is pulling out all stops to increase the number of science scholars in the country, pushing for its “one scholar per municipality” target” in order to achieve this.
Through its program dubbed “Push4Science: Maging DOST Scholar Ka!,” DOST hopes to pluck more scholarship applicants from 71 identified municipalities, including those in far-flung areas, and maintain a wave of high quality human resources who will continue to carry the country’s science and technology activities.
When “balut worries” go kaput
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Maricris B. Huit and husband Calixto used to have three manually operated incubators for their balut processing business in Ipil, Zamboanga Sibugay which they call Marc’s Balut Processing Facility.
Balut is a local street food – fertilized duck egg with a developing duck embryo inside – eaten right from the eggshell.