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As part of its continuing efforts to support Filipino inventors, the Department of Science and Technology (DOST), through its Technology Application and Promotion Institute (TAPI),recently granted financial assistance to two inventors.

They are Ricardo David, chairman of David Motors Trading and Renewable Energy Development Corporation and Eduardo Capule.

 

More than 100 students from three public high schools in Taguig City had a fun-filled learning experience during the kick off ceremonies of the 2015 Science Film Festival held in the Philippine Science Heritage Center Auditorium, Department of Science and Technology (DOST) complex, Bicutan, Taguig last October 21.

The students learned about “painting” with light using camera tricks and the negative effects of too much artificial light to our environment in the two opening films of the Festival namely “The Light Elephant” and “Nine and a Half—Light Pollution.”

 

A lawmaker, information expert, educators, local chief executives, and a scientist from the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) were named Science Ambassadors of the region during the CAR leg of the Department of Science and Technology’s recent Science Nation Tour in Baguio City.

Named DOST’s Science Ambassadors during the event’s Stakeholder’s Night at the CAP Convention Center in Camp John Hay were the following: Dr. Ben D. Ladilad, president of Benguet State University; Hon. Mauricio G. Domogan, mayor of Baguio City; Hon. Abraham B. Akilit, mayor of Bauko, Mountain Province; Dr. Raymundo D. Rovillos, UP Baguio chancellor and Cordillera Regional Health Research and Development Council chairperson; Hon. Marcelo V. Dela Cruz Jr., mayor of Rizal, Kalinga; Dr. Daniel C. Peckley Jr., a DOST Balik Scientist; and Dr. Helen R. Tibaldo, regional director of Philippine Information Agency-CAR.