Pinoy students, teachers win in Korea Int’l Youth Olympiad
A team of public school students and mentors harvested a crop of medals that included a gold at the Korea International Youth Olympiad 2018 held in Seoul, South Korea.
Araullo High School student Alyssandrea Rigor and her teachers Maria Cecilia Santiago and Amelita de Mesa won a gold medal for the Philippines for their invention, Tetraethyl Orthosilicate Blended with Whey Protein Isolate Textile.
Rigor also received the Best Woman Inventor Award.
Scarlet Nicole Yumang and Oscar Cloud Vincent Yumang of Tondo High School, backed by their teachers Abigael Aquino, Noel Dominice and Mark Ariel Pecajas, won a bronze medal for their invention, Antioxidant Water Booster from the Ethanolic Crude Extract of Roasted Coffee Bean Residue.
Esteban Abada High School student Eliza Joyce Lim, mentored by teachers Elvira Cabaluna and Delia Garcia, won a bronze medal for their invention “Paragis – a grass of life.”
Education Secretary Leonor Briones lauded the learners and teachers who gained recognition in the international competition.
“Congratulations to all the learners and teachers who joined this competition of creative and innovative minds around the world. May you continue your passion for invention, and also serve as an inspiration to others to venture in the field of creating innovative projects and works,” Briones said.
The Department of Education, particularly the DepEdNational Capital Region, had represented the Manila Young Inventors Association (MYIA), as it sent a delegation to the KIYO 2018 that was held on Aug. 10-12 at the Sejong University in Seoul.
Tondo High School principal and concurrent MYIA president Sonny Valenzuela said invention expositions and fairs in school, division, regional and national levels will revolutionize and jumpstart product development, thus helping boost the country’s economy and generating jobs for the unemployed.
“Opportunities for inventions should be brought to the broad masses of people and it should be accessible to everyone,” Valenzuela said.
The annual event aims to develop global leaders with creativity; challenge the spirit of teamwork; develop leadership skills, based on an individual’s strengths to foster the human resources who can lead the creative economy; and cultivate a wider perspective as a citizen of the world through exchanging ideas.
The international competition was organized by the World Women Inventors and Entrepreneurs Association, in cooperation with the International Federation of Investors Associate – in which the MYIA is a bona fide corresponding member, and was participated in by 45 countries.
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