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Benildeans in the spotlight!
Industrial Design Student-Achievers
From reports by Victorino P. Datuin
BS-Industrial Design (ID) students brought recognition to their program and the College in several competitions held earlier this year.
adobo magazine Design Competition
Lynnet Joyce Go’s entry, “Gotcha Bag,” won 3rd place in the bag design category of the adobo Design Competition. She was the only student finalist in the category, competing against representatives from major advertising companies, including Campaigns & Grey, Ace Saatchi and BBDO Guerrero.
The adobo Design Competition is organized by adobo magazine, the Philippines’ premier advertising and brand communications magazine. This year’s competition was conducted in partnership with WWF Philippines and had the theme “Reduce. Reuse. Recycle.”
More information on the competition is available online: http://adobodesignawards.com.
Obi.201 Interschool Design Competition
DLS-CSB students bagged the top prizes at the Obi.201 Interschool Design Competition held last March 5, 2009. The competition is held bi-annually and is open to all industrial design schools.
Obi.201 focused on Salvaged Monobloc as a theme and contestants had to submit a salvaged Monobloc chair of any brand and provide a design solution to retain or reinvent its seating function. The competition had two categories: the Main Competition/Salvaged Monobloc and the 30-minute on-the-spot design challenge.
In the main competition, DLS-CSB ID teams bagged 1st and 2nd place. Von Roque and Wesley Dionisio won 1st place, while 2nd place went to Joseph Rastrullo-Gonzalez and Rocky Collado.
In the on-the-spot design challenge, the top prizes also went to ID students: 1st place to Jay Mangussad, 2nd place to Von Roque and 3rd place to Rocky Collado.
The competition was hosted by Mapúa Institute of Technology and honors Oscar “Obi” Mapúa, Jr., who initiated the Industrial Design program in the Philippines.
Cebu-X International Furniture & Furnishings Exhibition Mugna Awards (Student Category)
Mirei Ong won 1st prize and Wesley Dionisio bagged the 3rd prize of the Mugna Awards (Student Category). The Mugna Award is the annual design competition of the Cebu-X International Furniture and Furnishing Exhibition organized by the Cebu Furniture Industries Foundation (CFIF). The 2009 Awards was supervised by Design and Product Development Committee Chair Kenneth Cobonpue.
As a leading industry association of the furniture and furnishings export industry in the Philippines, CFIF has partnered with colleges, including DLS-CSB, for a student design internship program that matches design students with Cebu X exhibitors for design and product development. Students develop design prototypes which are put on exhibit during Cebu X and evaluated by an international panel of judges.
The 2009 Cebu-X was held last March 5 to 8, 2009. DLS-CSB students competed against design students from University of the Philippines (UP) in the Visayas, Cebu College, UP-Diliman and University of San Carlos-College of Architecture and Fine Arts.
Blazers Defend Championship in NCAA Season 85
From a report by the Sports Development Office
With NCAA Season 85 opening on June 27, 2009 at the Araneta Coliseum, the DLS-CSB Blazers will be defending the overall championship and vying to become NCAA overall champion for the 3rd year in a row. Since the College joined the NCAA in 1998, last year’s win was the 4th championship received by the DLS-CSB Blazers. Various teams contributed to the NCAA Season 84 win by bringing home the championship. These include:
Chess Team
The Chess Team is the reigning champion for the 2nd year in a row and will be defending their championship this coming season. BSBA-Human Resource Management (HRM) student Jimson Bitoon received the Most Valuable Player and coach Fernie Donguines was recognized as the Coach of the Year.
Table Tennis Team (Men’s and Women’s Divisions)
The men’s and women’s divisions of the Table Tennis Team also claimed championship trophies. This is the 2nd year in a row for the men’s division and the 5th year in a row for the women’s division. BSBA-Business Management (BM) student Yolando Tano and BS-Hotel, Restaurant and Institution Management (HRIM) student Ayra Malabayabas were the most valuable players of the sport. Rudolph Palerma was awarded Coach of the Year.
Taekwondo Team (Men’s and Women’s Divisions)
The men’s and women’s divisions of the Taekwondo Team also brought home the championship. BS-HRIM student Clarence Virtudazo and BSBA-HRM student Ivanna Valenzuela received recognition as most valuable players, while coaches Roberto Cruz and Stephen Fernandez were awarded as Coaches of the Year.
Soft Tennis Team (Women’s Division)
Another sport where Blazers are excelling is in the demo sport of Soft Tennis where the women’s division gained the championship. As a demo sport, it is still in the process of being considered for inclusion in the NCAA line-up and is not yet part of the official scoring.
Other Team Standings
While they were not able to gain the title last season, several teams placed 1st and will be considered major competitors for the NCAA Season 85 championship. These are:
Beach Volleyball Team (Women’s Division)
Lawn Tennis Team (Men’s Division)
Swimming Team (Men’s Division)
Volleyball Team (Women’s Division)
The Football Team and Pep Squad placed 2nd in their competitions, while the Track and Field Team and Volleyball Team (Men’s Division) placed 3rd.
Women’s National Collegiate Athletic Association (WNCAA)
In the WNCAA, the Badminton Team became champions for the 2nd year in a row and will be vying to become champions for the 3rd year in a row this coming season. BS-HRIM student Ma. Francesca Angela Bermejo was awarded most valuable player and Lloyd Escoses was Coach of the Year.
The Basketball and Swimming Teams also placed 1st in their respective competitions.
2008 University Games
In Dumaguete City, Blazers also brought home the championship in Table Tennis (Men and Women’s Divisions) and Chess. The Men’s Lawn Tennis Team placed 1st.
For tryouts, game schedules and updates, please contact the Sports Development Office at 526-7441 loc. 255 or 319.
DLS-CSB is 1st Runner Up in Microsoft Imagine Cup
With reports from Carmen Luz V. Cueto and Ebenezer L. Uy
After competing with 3,200 teams from different colleges and universities all over the country, DLS-CSB’s Council of Green brought home the 1st Runner Up trophy at this year’s Philippine Finals of the Microsoft Imagine Cup 2009 - Software Design Category.
The 2009 Imagine Cup challenge was to “imagine a world where technology helps solve the toughest problems facing us today.” The objective was for students to create software solutions aligned with one of the eight Millennium Development Goals of the United Nations, which span a range of global issues including poverty and hunger alleviation, gender equality, education, and health and environmental sustainability.
Council of Green’s entry is named H.O.P.E.: Humanitarian Overturn of Poverty through Empowerment. It is a web application that allows consumers to purchase farmer’s produce through the help of Local Government Units (LGU’s) without having to transact with middlemen. The team, composed of 3rd year BS-Information Systems (BS-IS) students Riela Antonio, Roberto Galang, Jr., Timothy Co, and Joseph Buluran, with Ebenezer Uy as their official team mentor, is planning to further develop the current system and start a website that will help its target users.
Ateneo de Manila University bagged the top prize while 2nd Runner up went to a team from Colegio de San Juan de Letran. Another Letran team and a team from De La Salle University-Manila’s BS-ICTM complete the final five.
This is the 7th year that Microsoft has held the competition and the 2nd year that DLS-CSB joined the event. Last year’s DLS-CSB contingent finished 2nd runner up in the Philippine Finals and was showcased in the 2008 E-Services Event held at the SM Convention Center.
More information is available on the Microsoft Imagine Cup Philippines blog at http://imaginecupphils.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!9607C23662FAFD6E!723 entry.
For further inquiries, you may also get in touch with the School of Management and Information Technology’s Information Systems program at 526-7441 loc. 122.
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