ALAMINOS CITY, Pangasinan -- The Regional Science and Technology (S&T) Caravan 2018, which will offer free technology training courses for livelihood and showcase different technologies, will be held in this city on Sept. 18 to 21.
Director Felicidad Gan of the Department of Science and Technology’s (DOST) office in Pangasinan, in an interview on Monday, said the trainings and forums will focus on improving the bamboo industry, boost peanut production, increase agriculture and aquaculture productivity, emergency food reserve, and salt iodization technology, among others.
“The trainings are for free, with participants coming from the host city and other towns from the first district of Pangasinan,” Gan said.
She said the food technology developed by the DOST’s Food and Nutrition Research Institute will also be presented in the caravan where visitors can also buy these products.
“The local government units of the 10 municipalities and cities of the Pangasinan’s first district can also adopt the waste management technology developed by Adamson University funded by DOST, which they could use to tackle their problems on waste disposal, while there is also the technology to manage hotels and restaurants along the seashore,” Gan noted.
Other services which will be offered during the caravan are Real Life Experience in a Box (RxBox) medical assessment, scholarship campaign, free calibration of weighing scales, planetarium and interactive science exhibits, she said.
“Students will also enjoy the exhibits at the Don Leopoldo Sison Sports Complex since these are interactive,” she added.
Gan said 10 schools from the 1st district of Pangasinan will receive a Science and Technology Academic and Research-Based Openly Operated Kiosks (STARBOOKS) digital library on Sept. 21.
“Students can do their research through the STARBOOKS, where they could also access the technologies DOST is developing, among others, helpful materials and information,” she said.
Different science and technology (S&T) contest will also be joined in by students from the entire Region 1 (Ilocos).
The four-day caravan aims to raise awareness and appreciation of the DOST’s programs and projects in the countryside and remote areas; create potential investment opportunities on matured technologies towards establishment of technology; come up with agreement and undertakings that will result in S&T project implementation; determine and provide possible technical assistance needed by the city; and motivate the youth to appreciate science and technology in a fun and interactive way, she added. (PNA)
