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A little girl tinkers with robotic parts during the Robotics Challenge last July 28, 2014 at the SMX Convention Center in Pasay City. The event, which featured robots developed by students from the Philippine Science High School, was part of the Department of Science and Technology’s (DOST) 2014 National Science and Technology Week which ran from July 24-28, 2014. The Robotics Challenge is a mainstay event of NSTW which serves as the country’s show window of locally developed technologies and innovations via interactive exhibits, audio-visual presentations, product launchings, and others. This year’s NSTW schedule included the weekend, thus attracting more families and little kids into its exhibit space which covered four halls of SMX Convention Center. (S&T Media Service)

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S&T Post, the Department of Science and Technology-Science and Technology Information Institute’s (DOST-STII) quarterly publication, is now an e-Magazine downloadable in iPhones and iPods via Apple Newsstand.

This breakthrough development for the country’s premier science department was revealed during the S&T Post e-Magazine launching last July 26, 2014 at the SMX Convention Center in Pasay City. The launch, dubbed “Looking Back and Moving Forward,” was part of the activities lined up by DOST for its National Science and Technology Week held from July 24-28, 2014.

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The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration or PAGASA, one of the agencies under the Department of Science and Technology, is one of the top 5 best performing government agencies and offices in the country, according to a survey by the Makati Business Club (MBC).

This was announced in a press statement issued by the MBC last August 11, 2014.

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Four Filipino science experts were officially named National Scientist by President Benigno Aquino III in ceremonies held at Malacañang Palace last August 12, 2014.

They are Academicians Gavino C. Trono Jr. (marine botany), Angel C. Alcala (biological sciences), Roman C. Barba (horticulture), and Edgardo D. Gomez (marine biology).