Youth Seminar: Bullying

On October 17, 2016, ASP Wen Parducho visited Brgy. Captain Lapitan of Brgy. Baybayin for a courtesy call. She talked about the mission and vision of the Club and its ongoing projects which may benefit the barangay. The captain offered the Club to be a co-organizer of the barangay’s Youth Week where they plan to spread awareness about the following: bullying, antidrug campaign, HIV/cancer, disaster preparedness, and environmental concerns. The Club invited Mr. Edel Parducho, a psychologist at Medical Action Group, Inc. (MAG), to conduct the seminar on bullying on October 31. He first talked about the various definitions of the concept itself, facts and myths, and enumerated the types. Afterwards, he explained in detail the difference among “victim”, “bully”, “parent”, “educator”, and “society” given a situation. He also held an interactive activity wherein the participants were grouped to display the following situations and how to handle them:

(1) physical abuse;
(2) verbal abuse;
(3) societal/ relational abuse; and,
(4) gender-based abuse.

The participants were very responsive and even shared a few experiences which was great because that day became an outlet for them.  The Club hopes that through its small efforts to spread awareness on various topics concerning the youth, such as leadership and bullying, that it can at least prepare those children and young adults to face their future in a braver way.

Mr. Edel Parducho, a psychologist, spreading awareness on bullying in front of the youth of Brgy. Baybayin. 

ASP Wen Parducho and Mr. Edel Parducho, together with the participants of Brgy. Baybayin
Youth Week 2016 and the barangay officials. 

FORESTHACK 2016

Foresthack 2016 took place last August 27-28, 2016 at UPLB, organized by IDC Environment and Livelihood Development Foundation (ELDF) partnered with 8Layers Technologies, Inc. and Society of Filipino Foresters Inc. (SFFI). It challenged computer technology enthusiasts to develop an application through the use of mobile platforms. The Mobile App aimed at serving users with a tool that would enable them to: (1) contribute and access data and information for planning and monitoring sustainable forest management activities; (2) understand the challenges in the forestry sector; and, (3) search solutions that will address those challenges.

Nearly 150 college students from Laguna, Batangas, Quezon, metro Manila, and Palawan taking up Information Technology, Computer Science, and Forestry courses participated in the event. A total of 26 teams (composed of 4 students each) competed not only for the Grand Prize but as well as the opportunity to work with technology incubators and to pre-sent their “Winning App” at the Annual Conference of the Society of Filipino Foresters, Inc., to be held in Iloilo City in October 2016. The team “H.E.Y.L.” with their mobile app on calculating carbon footprint won the grand prize. The other two teams that won the first and second prize were Team “Newbie” with their “GoHarvest” app and Team “Supremo” with their “Kolektiv” app, respectively.

RC LB Makiling was invited as community partner of the organizers. As such, the Club provided tokens for the panel of judges, resource persons and guests.


Photo courtesy of 8Layers Technologies, Inc.