Giovanni Tapang, Ph.D.
Giovanni Tapang, Ph.D.

Last week, a group of volunteer physics undergraduates and other science students got started talking about making emergency cell phone chargers for Yolanda victims. A fifth year physics student Gilian Uy, a member of the Instrumentation Physics Laboratory at the National Institute of Physics, posted her idea on Facebook and asked her friends and myself to pitch in. As her electronics subject instructor, I organized a hackathon in my laboratory so that we can collectively make these devices for relief and rehabilitation.

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