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“No matter what happens, girls support girls, and girls are always for girls.”

This is the short yet meaningful response of Gecille T. Abeleda, grade 9 student of Quezon City High School, when asked about the most significant lesson she learned from joining the Tagisang Robotics Competition (TRC): Girls & Gears; and she is proof of its triumph to become an intense yet friendly competition that piques young girls’ long-standing aspiration for equality and unites them to fight for one specific advocacy – to celebrate women and champion their absolute potential to take part in robotics and engineering.  

When joining competitions, contenders surely have one ultimate goal; to win. But for the pioneers of the TRC: Girls & Gears, the main dream was never to just win the battle, but to break the norms that try to render girls weak and voiceless.  

More than aiming to win the highly coveted TRC championship title, the TagRobo girls hope to prove that girls are more than just girls and that they have what it takes to take part in highly male-dominated STEM competitions.  

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By Allan Mauro V. Marfal, DOST-STII

For many years, the entire nation has celebrated the success, hard work, and dedication of Filipino scientists and engineers during a week-long festivity, giving them the well-deserved spotlight, in Metro manila. This time around, this yearly event will be held in the region, to be hosted by the Visayas regional cluster of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST).

Breaking the norm, the National Science, Technology, and Innovation Week (NSTW) for 2023 will be hosted in Iloilo City from November 22-26, 2023, a historic first.

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The International Olympiad in Informatics Philippine Team, composed of John Lloyd Allas, Cassidy Kyler Tan, Jerome Austin Te, and Filbert Ephraim Wu, at the competition’s closing ceremony. (Photo from National Olympiad in Informatics Philippines Facebook page)

Once again, the Filipino has proven itself as world class, exhibiting academic excellence amidst fierce international competition.  Recently, three Filipino students achieved the country's best overall performance in the recently concluded 35th International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) in Szeged, Hungary, held from August 28 to September 4, 2023.

The Philippine team was composed of Cassidy Kyler Tan from Ateneo de Manila Senior High School, Jerome Austin Te from Jubilee Christian Academy, Filbert Ephraim Wu from Victory Christian International School, and John Lloyd Allas from City of San Jose Del Monte National Science High School.

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DOST-ITDI’s new technology, SAFEWATRS Emergency Disinfection  System of Drinking Water, was featured in the 25th episode of the weekly radio program of the Department of Science and Technology Region 1 (DOST-1) and DZAG Radyo Pilipinas Agoo on August 31, 2023. (Photo from DOST-1 Facebook page)

Water is life. As essential as breathing, water is a very important resource to sustain life and communities, as well as to power industries and economic activities.

With this in mind, the Department of Science and Technology-Industrial Technology Development Institute (DOST-ITDI) unveils a groundbreaking technology to solve the shortage of safe drinking water during calamities and emergencies such as typhoons, flooding, and earthquakes, as well as in remote areas where water supply is disrupted.