Education

Davao Studes Win in Smart Wireless Apps Awards


App Pupils. Bulacan State University’s Rexcel Balatbat, lead student of the Smart Phone Guard project that won the first prize, explains features of the application to Mon Isberto, Smart and PLDT public affairs head. Smart Phone Guard can track a stolen phone or remotely disable it or erase its content. (Photo courtesy of Smart/Leon Kilat)

Students from Ateneo de Davao developed the Vehicle Emergency Locator (VEL) that sends an alert message to a cellphone when a car’s airbag is used during accidents. The program can also send out a phone message that tells the GPS location the car.

Launched in August 2004, the SWEEP Innovation and Excellence Awards aims ?to give budding engineering students an opportunity to shine by recognizing their technology know-how and ingenuity,? says Rolando G. Pe?a, SMART?s network services division head.

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Ex-Entertainer from Davao Shines as English Teacher in Japan

DAVAO CITY — Sometime in the ?80s, Annie Yanagida went to Japan to work as an entertainer, one of the thousands who go to that country each year to seek greener pasture.

But unlike most Filipina entertainers in Japan, Annie, who graduated from the Holy Cross of Davao College, saw other opportunities. After marrying a Japanese, she put up Annie?s English School, which she has been nurturing for the past 20years.

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Gov?t Spies in State Schools: Threat to Academic Freedom

The University of the Philippines (UP) as the premier academic institution in the country remains one of the bulwarks of academic freedom. But its students are being harassed and military and police forces are intensifying surveillance operations inside the campus. Reyna Mae Tabbada reports for Bulatlat.

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