DEPARTMENT of Science and Technology-Philippine Science High School (DOST-PSHS, also popularly called Pisay) Main Campus student Marla Abao recently bagged the Best Oral Presentation award at the International Student Science Fair (ISSF) held at the National University of Singapore-High School of Math and Science in Singapore.
Abao won the prize for her research, titled “An Android Application for Efficient Disaster Kit Procurement for Low-Level Floods.”
Abao, and schoolmates Mikhail Tori and Justine Opulencia, individually presented Pisay tech projects to an international audience.
Besides the research presentation, the Pisay students also participated in other fun ISSF activities, such as the Science Challenge, a science-themed Amazing Race. The three students, who merged with another set of American students, likewise, topped the competition.
The ISSF is an event hosted by members of the International Science Schools Network on a rotating basis. The PSHS Main Campus was invited to become an associate member, giving the country a chance to host the event in the future and to present the local science education scene to the international community.
The students also joined a holography and optics workshop, where they created and took home their own miniholograms. A hologram is a three-dimensional image projected from lights coming out of a two-dimensional surface.
During the workshop, the students also tinkered with fiber optic technologies that were made by Nobel Prize winners.
A visit to two aerospace companies, Thales and Airbus, also gave the Pisay students an idea on how the industry works. They were shown Thales’s business processes and Airbus’s design conceptualization.
To cap off the event, the participants gathered in an Alice in Wonderland-themed tea party. Indeed, the fair was able to highlight that science is not all about excellence; it can be a whole lot of fun too.
The ISSF convened teachers and students of science high schools from Asia, Africa, Europe, Australia and the United States to share their researches and celebrate science.
S&T Media Service