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A logo design contest with a top prize of P50,000 kicked off preparations for this year’s National Biotechnology Week celebration, the Department of Science and Technology announced.

      The logo should symbolize the theme “Bioteknolohiya para sa Kalikasan, Kalusugan, Kagandahan, Kabuhayan, at Kaunlaran” (Biotechnology for nature, health, beauty, livelihood, and progress).

      The contest is open to all Filipinos - individuals or groups, whose design(s) must not have been submitted in any other contests, and depict the benefits of biotechnology. Each entry should be accompanied with written interpretation in 350 words or shorter. 

     Participants may send as many entries as possible in colored JPEG format, and around 5.5 x 5.5 inches in size through email at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., which should include the participant’s name, complete mailing address, other contact details, and scanned copy of identification cards with picture. Deadline of entries is 5PM on August 31, 2009.

     Entries will be judged based on overall visual impact (40%), interpretation and relevance to biotechnology (30%), and originality and creativity (30%). The winner will be notified through mail and awarding rite is on November 23, 2009 in time for the 5th NBW opening ceremony at the Nido-Fortified Science Discovery Center, SM Mall of Asia, Pasay City.

      The winning logo becomes the property of NBW organizers, which will have the sole right for its use.

      President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo institutionalized NBW through Presidential Proclamation No. 1414 issued November 9, 2007, which set the annual NBW celebration every last week of November. The proclamation supports Pres. Arroyo’s recognition of the various potentials and applications of biotechnology in agriculture, environment, health, industry and economy.

      The contest is sponsored by DOST’s Philippine Council for Advanced Science and Technology Research and Development, the focal agency of the 2009 NBW and DOST’s arm in coordinating researches in advanced S&T fields. 

      For more information, please contact Chitho Feliciano at telefax nos. 925-9211 or 929-6011 loc. 273, or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (Framelia V. Anonas, S&T Media Service)

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Department of Science and Technology Secretary Estrella F. Alabastro wears her advocacy especially during proud moments when the close-knit science community stirs up from its undeserved staid reputation. Alabastro was sunny in a silk gown topped with plaid, hand-woven silk bolero dyed with talisay leaves and young coconut husk at the recent National Science and Technology Week opening rites held at the Manila Hotel.

The outfit’s fabric was hand-woven from breeds of Philippine silkworm varieties. Silk throwing or plying and twisting along with dye extraction were also done using technologies developed by experts at DOST’s Philippine Textile Research Institute. Dyes extracted from talisay leaves were used for the black warp and weft, and young coconut husk for the pink weft.

PTRI developed the fabrics jointly with De La Cruz House of Piña, and New York-based designer Anthony Cruz Legarda. JC Sasoy, a runner up at the Young Designers’ Competition held early this year, designed the outfit.

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 Department of Science and Technology Assistant Secretary Carol M. Yorobe (right) listens to the presentation of Dr. Ta Ba Hung (middle), director of Vietnam’s National Center of Science and Technology Information on an international technology fair called Techmart Vietnam ASEAN+3 to be held in Hanoi on September 17-20. DOST holds a similar event called Technology Fair annually where domestic technology products, services, and inventions are put on exhibit along with parallel activities on business matching between technology generators, investors, and adoptors. Vietnam’s Ministry of Science and Technology through Dr. Hung and his deputy, Khong Duy Quy (left) invites participants and technology vendors from the Philippines during their visit-presentation at the DOST main office in Bicutan science complex today July 31. [Joy M. Lazcano, S&T Media Service]

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In her first state-of-the-nation address in 2001, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo held that “Technology is the foundation of future economic development.”

The Arroyo government’s support to science and technology had since expanded in terms of funding and institutional enhancements covering high impact projects, adoption of enabling laws, directives, and policies.

Education reform that would strengthen science and math in basic education was implemented. Policies were reviewed to plug assorted coordination gaps among public and private institutions, and move public and private S&T budget spending closer to the UNESCO-prescribed one percent of the nation’s GDP.

Science and Engineering Education

Science and engineering education is high on the list of the government’s agenda.  In 2007, President Arroyo authorized the Department of Budget and Management to release P200 million to expand graduate and post-graduate scholarships in science and engineering. This is in addition to the P500 million supplemental budget allocated in 2006 to build a national science complex at the University of the Philippines in Diliman.