The Thirteenth Scholars A4 Issue Vol 4 Issue 2

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THE THIRTEENTH

SCHOLARS

THE OFFICIAL MONTHLY PUBLICATION OF THE THIRTEENTH SCHOLARS-THE OFFICIAL SCHOOL PUBLICATION OF PHILIPPINE SCIENCE HIGH SCHOOL CARAGA REGION CAMPUS Volume 4 ~ Issue 02 ~ 2 pages September 2019

STEM READY SCHOLARS Pisay CRC commemorates first ever STEM fest

In order to enhance the scholars skills and knowledge in the field of Science, Technology, Engineering,and Mathematics(STEM), Philippine Science High school - Caraga region campus celebrates first ever STEM festival held in Butuan City, September 26-27. The scholars of the said campus was divided into six STEM camps, namely STEM camp one,STEM camp two,STEM camp three,STEM camp four,STEM camp five , and STEM camp six. Given these facts, the festival have many events like jingle making, kite flying, quiz bowl, rubik’s cube (individual and group category), robotics (sumo bot, scribble bot, and groovy gears) , speed stacking, damath, digital poster making, and web development. The winner for jingle making competition is from camp number two,for the kite flying champion is from camp four, camp one for quiz bowl, rubik’s cube (team) champion is from camp two while the winner for the individual category is from

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Duterte inks law creating Philippine Space Agency

Paul Nelson Gonzaga

Despite gaining support from DepEd, passage of ‘no-homework law’ draw heavy blasts Kit Lester Balayo

Regardless of the move being welcomed by the Department of Education (DepEd) Secretary Briones, “No Homework Law” filed by Senator Poe last August 27 sparked heavy criticisms from netizens and teachers. The senator authored Senate Bill 966 or the proposed “No homework Law” which will ban teachers to give assignments during weekends if ever the bill passes the senate and becomes a law. “All primary and secondary schools in the country shall not allow teachers to give any network or assignments to students from kinder to Grade 12 on weekends,” the bill read. According to the proposal, teachers are limited to only assign homework to students on weekend so long as it is minimal and will not require more than four hours to be completed. Poe also stressed that the “no homework policy on weekends will be applied to both public and private schools. This served as a compliance to the mandate of the state, she said, which is to safeguard the welfare of teachers and school children. Citing a study from the Organization for Economic Coopera-

tion and Develpoment’s Program for International Students Assessment, the senator noted that additional time spent on homework has a negligible impact on the performance of students. This is after around four hours of homework in a week. “Further, it looked at homework hours around the world and found that there wasn;t much of a connection between how much homework students of a particular country do and how well their studetns score on tests,” the bill read. Several lawmakers filed different versions of what they pushed as the “no-homework” bill. Among these bills was filed by the Sorsogon 1st District Rep. Evelina Escudero. She filed House Bill No. 3611 to ban homework from kindergarten to high school; however, both Senator Grace Poe and Quezon City 5th District Rep. Alfred Vargas only wanted homework to be banned for weekends. Meanwhile, Escudero wanted to impose the “no homework” policy every single day of the year, however, Poe and Vargas firmly believed that homework is alright during weekdays.

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MANILA, PhilippinesPresident Rodrigo Duterte has signed the law creating a space agency for the Philippines. Duterte signed Republic Act 11363 or the Philippine Space Agency (PhiISA) Act on August 8 and a copy of which that was posted on August 13. PhiISA will be the NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration)-like agency in the Philippines. The agency will focus on Space science, Technolgy access, space research particularly national security, hazard management, climate studies, space industry capacity building, space education, and international cooperation. It will also serve as the primary strategic roadmap for space development of the country under the Executive branch of the government that will plan, develop, and promote the national space program in line with the Philippine Space Policy. The law also created the Philippine Space Council (PSC) which will be the principal advisory body for the coordination and integration of policies, programs and resources affecting science and technology applications. The PSC will be chaired by the President and the Secretaries of Defense and Science and Technolgy will serve as vice-chairpersons. The official site of the PhiISA will be in Clark Special Economic Zone in Pampanga and Tarlac.

camo four,scribble bot winner is coming form camp six, camp five for speed stacking, camp four for web development, the champion for groovy gears is camp five, robot racing winner coming from camp number four, sumo bot is camp five, for booth making is camp three, and digital poster making from camp number four. Moreover, the overall champion of the festival is camp number four followed by the first runner-up winner - camp number two and STEM camp number five as second runner-up winner. Aditionally, the program was conducted at the above mentioned campus. Furthermore, the student were prescribed to wear t-shirts with their corresponding color base on their camp group.

2020 The Department of Science and Technology is getting a lower budget for 2020. The Department of Budget and Management approved a budget of P20.1 billion for 2020 for the DOST, which is P79.85 million lower than its 2019 budget


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