Weights in Wheels

Carrying the nutshell loaded with the essentials of education might be a heavenly advantage for one’s mind and grades, but it’s not always the case for one’s back. The number of students from Alabel National Science High School with a spinal deformity, which could be seen in the form of unbalanced shoulders, shows the body‘s consequence when it exceeds the weight it can only bear. Scoliosis– the medical term of such a vengeful condition. As students, the lips should only be the curved lines when emotions are felt. But unfortunately, in this stage of life, the back becomes, too.

Lyle Ledesma, a Grade 10 student who has been diagnosed with lumbar scoliosis since he was 7 years old, states that the workload he brings to school every day affected his recovery from scoliosis as his condition worsened. Even with his avid desire to heal, his eagerness to learn outweighs it, literally causing his back to bend sideways. Routinely, he brings his laptop and its accessories, notebooks, 22-oz tumbler, lunchbox, umbrella, and the likes. “The laptop itself is already heavy, idagdag mo pa ‘yung notebooks. The more na bumibigat ‘yung laman ng bag ko, the more na nagwo-worsen ‘yung condition ko.” As a result, the right part of his shoulder appears more sunken than the left.

“This condition is concerning for my overall health. Scoliosis will be with me for the rest of my life,’’ a ponderous mass of truth Ledesma admitted to himself. Day after day, he felt like a tow heaving hepty freights all at once.

As a counterpart to aid the lingering issue about scoliosis and as a part of the fulfillment to the requirements for Research and Creative Technologies, a group of Grade 10 students created a project called “WALLRuS”, which stands for Wheeled Autonomous Line Tracking Controlled Luggage Carrier Robot for School Hallways. This robot functions by receiving inputs from the users about their pick-up and drop-off stations where it carries their loads for them. It particularly sends and receives signals from station to station to efficiently follow the encoded instructions.

As bags get heavier, posture declines— sometimes, it seems tedious to picture a sight of wheels carrying different kinds of weights that are caused and required by life. With the incipient of WALLRuS that the weights can be hauled by wheels, the overworked backs can finally rest.

Deprivation Strugles

Just the Way They Wanted

Brix Salloman

If you have a mobile device with you, then chances are you are also into a lot of social media. And if you are, then case on point, congratulations you just made yourself a product that flashfloods money onto the waiting pockets of the tech people in Silicon Valley. If you are still yet to grasp on the point that I am trying to get to, then sit back and take a moment to read.

“The Social Dilemma” is a documentary produced by Netflix that dives into the depths of what actually happens inside the social media technology landscape. The feature opens the eyes of its audience to the eerie secrets that lies behind the curtains of socmed platforms such as Facebook, Google, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, and others of the likes. Basically, the film emphasizes on the concept of us being the “users” of such platforms are also the ones who are being sold to different advertisers and corporations for the influx of profit.

To begin let us make thingsclear, social media platforms do not sell our information. Instead,the real question is “What do they do with the informationwe provide them?” Shoshana Zuboff, Professor Emeritus fromthe Harvard Business School shared that great business todaysell certainty. “In order to b successful in the business, youhave to have great predictions.