Clifford Michael B.

Manongsong SCI-TECH
BSSW – 1st Year

ACITIVITY 1-2 Midterm

1. Propose one science and technology program that could be implemented in your town or region.
(Minimum of 100 words)
Creating science and technology parks is one of the program that could be implemented here in our
municipality or even in our region. Science and technology is the life wire of every society today. It aids
in the development and growth of the society improving the knowledge base of its inhabitants by the
learning on the go. It brings about improvement in the economic stature of the society as all funds that
come in are tracked by systems that are in place making it easy to audit the managers of the funds. Also
improving on the learning attitude of every kid in school as all the lessons given they are through tech
medium. A science park is an organization managed by specialized professionals, whose main aim is to
increase the wealth of its community by promoting the culture of innovation and the competitiveness of
its associated businesses and knowledge-based institutions. Technology can reduce the time needed to
create a product or provide a service, increasing an institution's overall profits. Technology may help an
institution's output rate be more efficient.

2. Identify other Filipino scientists that you know. Examine their contributions to the field of science and
study what made them pursue a career in science.

 AGAPITO FLORES - He received a French patent for a fluorescent bulb and that the General
Electric Company bought Flores' patent rights and manufactured and sold his fluorescent bulb.
 FE DEL MUNDO - revolutionized Philippine medicine, making major breakthroughs in
immunization and in the treatment of jaundice, and providing healthcare to thousands of poor
families. She is credited with studies that led to the invention of the incubator and a jaundice
relieving device. Three of her eight siblings died in infancy, while an older sister died from
appendicitis at age 11. It was the death of her older sister, who had made known her desire to
become a doctor for the poor that pushed the young Del Mundo toward the medical profession.
Lastly, she is the first Asian in Harvard School of Medicine.
 ROBERTO DEL ROSARIO – he invented the Karaoke Sing along system. He invented the
karaoke because of a customer wanted him to perform at a party but he was too busy, and he
recorded the backup music on tape and gave it to the customer. After that, Inoue assembled a
team of an electronics specialist, a woodworker, and a furniture finisher, and together they built
the first karaoke machine using 8-track tapes, complete with microphone and echo effect, called
the 8-Juke.
 LUCILLE ABAD - Senior science research specialist and chief of the Chemistry Research
Section, Philippine Nuclear Research Institute (PNRI). She developed a plant vitamin – an
effective plant growth promoter using irradiated seaweeds. This research has also been
recognized by the Japan-based Forum for Nuclear Cooperation in Asia. Dr. Abad taught
Chemistry subjects in secondary and tertiary schools, but realized soon enough that teaching is
not a career she wanted to pursue. She landed a post as a researcher for the Philippine Nuclear
Research Institute (PNRI), one of the attached agencies under the Department of Science and
Technology (DOST).
 MARIO ANTONIO JIZ II - Senior science research specialist, Research Institute for Tropical
Medicine (RITM). Jiz significantly contributed to the study of schistosomiasis and the
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BSSW – 1st Year

development of a vaccine against this disease. Schistosomiasis is a chronic disease caused by

parasitic worms.

3. Considering the challenges of 21st century life and the demands of the Fourth Industrial Revolution,
how can the country further strengthen and improve the state of its science education.
Science is useful because of its links to technology and industry, which, from a national perspective,
are areas of high priority for development. Science provides ways of making sense of the world
systematically. It develops students’ scientific inquiry skills, values and attitudes, such as objectivity,
curiosity, and honesty and habits of mind including critical thinking. All these are useful to the individual
student for his own personal development, future career, and life in general. These skills, values, attitudes,
and dispositions are likewise useful to the community that an individual student belongs to, and are
further useful to the country that he lives in. Our needs to open up its science and technology to
international standards and investments including foreign professionals. Cannot flourish if our country
limit or restrict them to Filipino professionals only without international involvements. It actually was
ahead of most Asians Countries in the past but somehow fell behind.