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dost s starbooks logs in at lucena city 06242016
The innovative digital learning tool called STARBOOKS or the Science and Technology Academic Research-Based Openly Operated Kiosks System is installed invarious private and public schools in Quezon province during the STARBOOKS training in Lucena City. In photo are DOST Region IV-A Provincial S&T Center Director Maria Esperanza E. Jawili (first row, third from right), DOST-STII STARBOOKS Team (in red and white shirts), and the officers of the Librarians Association of Quezon Province and Lucena Inc. headed by its president, Eulalia G. Zapata (second row, second from right). A memorandum of understanding among the stakeholders was signed on April 13, 2016 at the Manuel S. Enverga University Foundation Library Seminar Hall to further the use of STARBOOKS in the region.  (Text & Photo by Rodolfo P. de Guzman/S&T Media Service)

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High school students competing in the 5th ASEAN Plus Three Junior Science Odyssey (APTJSO) in UP Los Bañostook on the challenge from leaders of the local science communityto study how scientists can better assess the effects of climate change on the world’s rainforests. 

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news help the poor through innovative research 06222016
The Department of Science and Technology Region VII Director Edilberto Paradela urged scientists in the Visayas to do researches that promote “inclusive development.” Speaking before the participants in the scientist conference at the University of San Jose Recoletos (USJR) Auditorium, Paradela stressed doing such fulfills the scientists’ moral and social duties to help alleviate the living condition of grass root communities.

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news taste of the filipino culture 06172016
The teacher-participants and observers of the ongoing 2016 ASEAN Plus Three Junior Science Odyssey (APTJSO) got a taste of the Filipino culture during their Amazing Race activity at the Forest Club Eco Resort in Bay, Laguna. The participants eagerly tried the dance of tinikling and the game of kadang-kadang, tasted laing, learned a few Filipino words, and played the folk song Leron-Leron Sinta by tinkering with regular bottles. The 2016 APTJSO runs from June 13 to 18 at the University of the Philippines Los Baños, where 26 teams of 12-15-year-old students, gifted in science, convene once a year to learn and experience more about science and foster camaraderie and networking in the APT region. (Photos by Geraldine B. Ducusin, S&T Media Service and University of the Philippines Los Baños)