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SCI WINGS The Official English Publication of the Philippine Science High School - Southern Mindanao Campus
Yannah Fajardo
SMC gives back to marginalized communities Dyll Valdez and John Bedez through PAKIGLAMBIGIT AS A PART of its continued mandate of serving the nation, teachers from the Philippine Science High School Southern Mindanao Campus (PSHSSMC) engaged with officials and fellow educators from the various divisions of Region XI in an effort to uplift disadvantaged communities through education.
somehow, we can close that gap.”
With the guidance of experts like Bernard A. Beduya and Trextan Thaddeus B. The initiative included workshops, Sanchez, participants learned to program resource sharing, and training sessions robotics sensors, giving them a glimpse that targeted both teachers and students in into the advancing field of robotics. these remote areas. “There are concepts na hopefully these “Our aim is that those learners have in the learners be introduced to as early as now urban areas, even just like Pisay, these - that when they go to college, they learners from the marginalized wouldn’t be surprised of such thing, ‘ the Aimed at equipping disadvantaged communities can also experience,” she Director noted. communities with better resources and asserted. preparedness towards fostering quality Looking ahead, PSHS-SMC plans to education, the PAKIGLAMBIGIT initiative The PAKIGLAMBIGIT program also aligns expand the PAKIGLAMBIGIT program to served as an avenue for PSHS-SMC to with broader national educational goals, reach even more communities. Future exchange knowledge, resources, and striving to ensure that all Filipino students, sessions will continue to build on the teaching methodologies with marginalized regardless of their background, have the foundation established in the initial schools. chance to succeed and contribute to the trainings, introducing broader applications. nation’s progress. According to Davao del Norte Provincial The success of the PAKIGLAMBIGIT Science and Technology Director Judy In addition to the theoretical aspects, initiative is evident in the positive feedback Donna Nueva Ecija, “[...] we could say that sessions of the PAKIGLAMBIGIT program from both participants and the local access to learning materials and education, spotlighted hands-on training. Participants communities. Teachers from participating due to distance and accessibility issues, is engaged in practical activities designed to schools have reported increased quite different from urban areas. With this gauge their application of scientific enthusiasm and engagement from their kind of undertaking with the PSHS, concepts. students. somehow,
Justin Diez
CHEERS FILLED THE GYMNASIUM as the PisaySMC community closed its celebration of Math Week 2024 with the Math Fun Quiz Bee and Awarding of Winners. The program served as the finale to a week-long series of talks and educational activities organized by the school's Mathematics unit from March 4 to 15. The highlight of the culmination program was the Math Fun Quiz Bee. Two students from each section raced to finish their solutions and provide the correct answer in the hopes of garnering the most points. As suspense built up among contestants and the audience alike, participants of the MMCM Street Dance Battle Competition took the floor, delivering an applause-worthy performance to uplift the atmosphere. The program ended with the recognition of students who had won in the various competitions and activities held throughout the celebration.
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