Created by IBM in 2011 and first implemented in public schools in New York, the P-TECH program creates a direct path between high school, college, and career by linking the education sector with local companies.
The online learning site serves to provide open access to hundreds of Microsoft's current modern workplace technology courses in eight learning tracks such as Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, DevOps, Cloud Administration, and more.
The company's education arm, MSI-ECS Education, has been appointed as the new learning partner of Huawei, Hortonworks, and Pivotal following a successful on-boarding process conducted by the tech giants in the last quarter of 2018.
The challenge is to use Apple technology to create solutions to current and emerging issues of the community stated in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs).
Senior high school teams from the Technological Institute of the Philippines-Cubao Campus, Philippine Science High School-Eastern Visayas Campus, and New Era University won the coveted Youth Innovation Prize and P50,000 cash while College of St. John-Roxas nabbed the Acer IOT Award in the recently concluded ?imake.wemake: create. innovate. Collaborate? competition of the Department of Science and Technology ? Science Education Institute (DOST-SEI) and Acer Philippines.
Young Filipino students wrapped up 2018 on a high note, finishing overall first runner-up and winning 32 other awards in an international math contest in India.
For the fourth consecutive year, tech outsourcing firm Accenture is teaming up with Code.org to support "Hour of Code", a global educational movement that reaches over 100 million students through a one-hour introduction to computer science.
The local office of German chemical company BASF recently conducted the Kids Lab program, its long-running corporate citizenship activity where primary school-aged children are offered the opportunity to experience simple and safe chemistry experiments to appreciate science and chemistry.
