This year's conference puts the spotlight on students and seeks to answer these questions: What do we do to reach, engage, and empower our students to be more active and motivated learners? How can technology help us reach these goals?
Th program seeks to enable teachers with innovative strategies in teaching science and mathematics in time with the full implementation of the K-12 curriculum.
A son of a balut vendor living in a depressed area in front of the main campus of the Philippine Science High School (PSHS), affectionately known as Pisay, is making a name for himself for hurdling the tough entrance examinations of the country’s premier secondary institution.
Headlining the list of awardees are finalists in the 17th Philippine Mathematical Olympiad and members of the national contingent to the 55th International Mathematical Olympiad.
Ten years ago, it was reported that 90 percent of Pisay qualifiers were from private schools. Until recently, the percentage went down to 60 percent for qualifiers from privileged families. Among this year's crop of freshmen is Robert John P. Pecayo, Grade 7, and a resident of an urban poor community along Agham Road.
The Networked Society Award was given to PLM in recognition of their Smart Reserve project, which was also named as a finalist in the Smart SWEEP Awards.
Based on the 2014 survey of the Philippine Association of State Universities and Colleges (PASUC), there is an estimated shortage of 17.057 faculty in SUCs, and most SUCs have a faculty-to-student ration of 1:42 which is higher than the standard faculty-to-student ratio of 1:25.
In an attempt to boost the entrepreneurial skills of science and engineering students in the country, the government has signed an agreement with a non-profit organization to include entrepreneurship subjects in engineering courses.
S-MART is an app that allows the users to track prices of basic agricultural crops allowing producers to maximize their profit margins, and consumers to choose the best buys in the market.
In a bid to accelerate the development of S&T-focused teachers across the nation, the Department of Science and Technology ? Science Education Institute (DOST-SEI), in partnership with six universities, trained 250 science and mathematics teacher trainers to prepare them for the implementation of the K-12 curriculum.
