Showcasing how the University remains relevant to the community people in this time of the pandemic, the School-on-the-Air (SOA) Tarabay iti Pagbiagan, Pagtaengan, Salun-at (TIPPS) ken Dadduma Pay is one of the highlights of the MMSU S&T Kwentuhan this November 22-24, 2021.

With the Program Anchor, Ms. Mercy Gano, Chief of the Applied Communication of the Extension Directorate, the Episode 3 highlights how the SOA impacts communities through dissemination of relevant information and technologies along home technology, livelihood, health, and other emerging social concerns.

“Our SOA has already aired more than 200 airings in our three partner radio stations and we have also tapped FB Live to accommodate our netizens. The SOA has become our strategy to keep our communities engaged, informed, and empowered, making their time productive and worthwhile while we altogether brave the pandemic”, Ms. Gano stressed.

The SOA TIPPS Program started last February 2021. Running for around nine (9) months already, the program has aired more than 70 topics along food processing, livestock raising and management, entrepreneurship and financial literacy, health, wellness, and sanitation, women’s rights, product development and value adding, herbal and medicinal plants, organic agriculture and climate change, bio-intensive gardening and vegetable production, forestry and environment management, and other topics concerning the bigger society such as African Swine Fever (ASF) and the promotion of virgin coconut oil as adjunct therapy for probable and suspect cases of CoVID-19.   

“We continue to share these information to help the community people informed and empowered such that we contribute to their resilience, sustainability, and empowerment even amid the pandemic. And this has allowed us to strengthen our partnership with the Local Government Units”, Ms. Gano added.

MMSU’s School-on-the-Air: Education for Empowerment is the third initiative of the University featured in the third episode, MMSU S&T Across Communities.  Broadcast via FB Live on November 24, the sharing has engaged more than 2.4K viewers in its 35 sharing as of this writing.

Other initiatives highlighted in this episode are: 1) Fueling Sustainability, Engaging Communities: The NBERIC Story with the University President, Dr. Shirley Agrupis; 2) Multiplying Productivity with the Multi-Fuel Dryer with Mr. Zaldy Fernandez of the College of Industrial Technology (CIT), and the 3) E-Kawayan Technology: Emergence and Expansion with Forester Charito Samsam of the Research Directorate.

The MMSU S&T Kwentuhan series is part of MMSU’s celebration of the National Science and Technology Week (NSTW) with the theme, ‘Agham at Teknolohiya: Tugon sa Hamon ng Panahon’ spearheaded by the Department of Science and Technology on November 22-28, 2021.

Other highlights in this S&T Kwentuhan are: 1) MMSU’s Better Normal with University President, Dr. Shirley Agrupis; 2) MMSU 4.0 with ITC Director, Dr. Saturnina Nisperos; 3) the MMSU Virtual Learning Environment with former ITC Director, Prof. Wilben Christie Pagtaconan; and 4) Internet of Things (IoT) @ MMSU with Engr. Vladimir Ibanez of the College of Engineering during the Episode 1: MMSU’s S&T Breakthroughs aired on November 22; and 5) Bio-Computing for Better Health with Dr. Doreen Domingo and Mr. James Patrick Acang of the College of Arts and Sciences; 6) Fighting Cancer with Indigenous Plants with Prof. Rhian Jaymar Ramil of the College of Health Sciences; and 7) The Wonders of MMSU Black Garlic with Dr. Dionisio Bucao, Chief of the Garlic Research Center and the University Innovation and Technology Support Office  (UITSO) for the Episode 2: MMSU Discoveries on November 23.

Truly, the MMSU remains relevant through science, technology, and innovation even in the new normal.  

To watch the three episodes of the MMSU S&T Kwentuhan, click the following links:

Episode 1: https://fb.watch/9CYTsAn0P8/

Episode 2: https://fb.watch/9CYScNsCGE/

Episode 3: https://fb.watch/9CYNZqZU3O/

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