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By Jonathan M. Hicap Reporter
THE Department of Education
recently honored public high-school students who won in the 2007
Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) in
Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.
“All our delegates to the Intel
ISEF are winners,” Education Secretary Jesli A. Lapus said.
The winners were awarded
individual and team awards for their projects.
Melvyn Karlo Barroa of Capiz
National High School in Western Visayas and Hester Mana D. Umayam of
the Philippine Science High School-Cagayan Valley in Cagayan Valley
won fourth place individual grand award.
Barroa won for his work on
“Fish Mucus and its Potential Antimicrobial Effect on Human
Pathogens and Possible Role in Innate Community,” while Umayam
brought home a medal for her study of the “Ethnomathematics in the
Geometric Patterns in Kalinga Woven Designs.”
Teammates Ivy Razel Ventura, Mara
Elaine Villaverde and Janine Cindy Santiago from the Philippine
Science High School in Quezon City won fourth place in the team
grand award category. Their work was on the “Screening, Isolation
and Characterization of Fluorescents Protein from Nudibranch.”
Luiji John Karlo Suarez from Doña
Hortencia Salas-Benedicto National High School in Western Visayas
received both a Foundation Award and a Special Award. The National
Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance and The Lemelson
Foundation applauded his efforts to research the “Potential of
Marine Bioluminescent Bacteria as an Antibacterial Agent Against Two
Major Rice Diseases.”
A total of 1,500 students from 50
countries participated in the ISEF. Delegates from the Philippines
consisted of the national level winners in the 2006-2007 DepEd-Intel
Philippine Science Fair.
Other national finalists who took
part in the Intel ISEF were Jane Suede, Charlotte Joyce Gamelong and
Verna Joy Cabanero of Doña Hortencia Salas-Benedicto National High
School.
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