By Cristina DC Pastor About 20 years ago, Richard Reyes would scour recycling centers for discarded computers he could bring back to life. The reason for his rescue mission? To save computers from going to landfills or to send them to the Philippines to be used by rural schoolchildren. As recycling centers have been more […]
By Rene Pastor Forty years ago, or around the time Corazon Aquino overthrew Ferdinand Marcos in a bloodless revolt, smartphones were not the ubiquitous gadget they are today. The devices used then were clunky and the size of car batteries which conked out at a dirty look. There was a lot of hopeful talk that […]
By Cristina DC Pastor I detected the glint of pride in Danilo Pagsambugan’s eyes as we walked toward the Oculus coming from the Westfield World Trade Center. “You were part of this?” I asked when we reached the sprawling all-white lobby framed by ribbed ceiling. “I was the chief of quality assurance and quality control,” […]
By Vicky Vitug Genevie Velarde Yang remembers growing up in Norwalk, Southern California playing Solitaire and Minesweeper games on a computer with her family. No one would have thought that one day she would become an engineer, or more precisely, a Flight System Engineer who would become pivotal in the successful Perseverance Rover mission to Mars for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). “Back […]
By Cristina DC Pastor “When my grandfather passed away I went back to the Philippines to attend his wake. I remember seeing his fans line up as far as the eye could see just to pay their respects. Thousands of Filipinos lined up for days to say good-bye. It was life changing for me to […]
“Work It Out Wombats!,”a new animated STEM series for preschoolers ages 3-6 starring a playful trio of marsupial siblings—Malik, Zadie and Zeke—who live with their grandmother, debuted on PBS KIDS on February 6. The series introduces computational thinking concepts that will help young viewers solve meaningful problems, learn flexible thinking and how to express themselves—all […]
By Eric J. Daza I failed or almost failed out of a few core STEM courses in my biology undergrad — including calculus. I barely passed my core major GPA requirement to graduate, and scored a middling overall GPA. Today, I hold a doctorate in biostatistics from a top public health school, and completed a […]
By Jenny Manrique The promise of hefty returns is what initially drew Jeffrey Vaulx, a second-grade special ed teacher in Memphis, Tennessee to go in on a cryptocurrency investment opportunity introduced to him by a Facebook friend. Vaulx would soon discover that he had been taken by a scheme that data from the Federal Trade […]
By Paul John Caña To be very technical about it, Proof of Learn (POL), a tech platform that uses blockchain technology to educate developers on Web3, was founded in December 2021. But one can argue that the seeds for this fledgling company were planted years or even decades ago, especially when you consider the […]