By Edd K. Usman
BAGUIO
CITY -- The Cordillera Administrative Region now has champions in science and
technology (S&T) advocacy.
Department of Science and Technology Sec.
Mario Go Montejo named the CAR’s Science Ambassadors last week.
They are Baguio City Mayor Mauricio Domogan,
Benguet State University (BSU) president Ben D. Ladilad, University of the
Philippines (UP)-Baguio Chancellor Dr. Raymundo. D. Rovillos, Bauko (Mountain Province)
Mayor Abraham B. Akilit, Rizal (Kalinga) Mayor Marcelo V. Dela Cruz Jr.,
Scientist Dr. Daniel C. Pekley Jr.; Philippine Information Agency (PIA)-CAR
director Dr. Helen R. Tibaldo, Assistant Secretary for Countryside Development
Dr. Urdujah A. Tejada.
Naming Science Ambassadors is part of the
DOST’s “Science Nation Tour” aimed at bringing to the country’s 17 regions
relevant S&T programs that will help the local governments’ economy.
DOST’s first batch of Science Ambassadors
were named for Davao Region in March, 2015.
Montejo visited the CAR last week for a
series of activities, chief of which the inauguration on October 8 of an
environment-friendly Gold-Copper Processing Plant in Itogon, Benguet, to help
the region’s small-scale miners avail themselves of the DOST technology of
extracting gold without the use of mercury and cyanide.
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