Hope for a bright future imbibed by first #SLC2023 NCR batch
23 May 2023
“Nandito kami, nandiyan kayo. Mararating ninyo ang narating namin.”
These hopeful and optimistic words, which came from AZN Global Services Operations Manila, Inc. Senior Manager Mark Morada, echoed around the halls of the Taal Vista Hotel in Tagaytay City last May 3, 2023 during the onset of the Scholars Leadership Camp (SLC) 2023 for the first batch of scholar-leaders in the National Capital Region (NCR), courtesy of the Department of Science and Technology - Science Education Institute (DOST-SEI).
Leave a Nest PH, DOST-SEI focus on developing research plans in sixth Project SET session
23 May 2023
To continue on its modules on innovation and technopreneurship, the Department of Science and Technology - Science Education Institute (DOST-SEI) and Leave a Nest Philippines, Inc. (LVNS PH) held its sixth session on Scholars Entrepreneurship Training, more popularly known as Project SET, last April 29, 2023 at the Philippine International Convention Center (PICC).
The training program mainly aims to inculcate ingenious and innovative mindsets to scholar-participants to help them easily innovate things, bring these innovations to their communities, and use such to make a lasting positive impact to society. Most importantly, the project intends to train DOST-SEI undergraduate scholars in helping cultivate and nourish a culture of science and technology in the country by informing them of how entrepreneurship can add value to the STEM fields that they are in.
STEM Teach: Learning the Basics of GeoGebra as a Tool in Teaching Mathematics
27 April 2023
In partnership with the University of the Philippines - National Institute for Science and Mathematics Education Development (UP NISMED), the Department of Science and Technology – Science Education Institute held its third face-to-face training for science teachers this year in Panglao, Bohol, focusing on the basics of GeoGebra, an interactive geometry, algebra, statistics and calculus application used for teaching Mathematics
Fifty mathematics teachers from the Department of Education (DepEd) Division of Bohol participated in the three-day training, Learning the Basics of GeoGebra as a Tool in Teaching Mathematics. The teacher-participants were mentored by Dr. Allan M. Canonigo, Ms. Haidee P. Rosete, and Ms. Abigail B. Gonzales from the UP NISMED.
Films on nationalism, community development highlighted in DOST-SEI's video-making competition
25 April 2023
In the hopes of showcasing the creativity and ingenuity of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) scholars in filmmaking and furthering advocacies to empower the youth in various scientific and societal pursuits, the DOST-Science Education Institute (SEI) through its The Filipino Patriot Scholars Project held its first Video-Making Contest featuring films on patriotism and volunteerism for community development.
With the theme, “Malasakit ng Kabataan Para Sa Bayan,” the scholars, through their films, tackled a wide range of entries from music videos, vlog-like outputs, short films, documentaries, and experimental movies on climate change, education, agriculture and livelihood, and social justice.
