Manila, Philippines – Last November 10
at the Microsoft Philippines office, the launching of Bloom in STEM (Science,
Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) and the 200th birth anniversary of
Ada Lovelace takes place. Who is Ada Lovelace? She is a British mathematician and a
computer visionary, she is well known as “the first world computer programmer” and she is a woman.
The whole program was
focused on empowering and encouraging women to participate in contribution to works & ideas in the STEM field. In addition, because of the stereotypical
misconception that girls are not interested in science, technology,
engineering, and mathematics, the whole world are surely loosing some great
talent. Who knows what will happen, if we eliminate the limiting factors that
hinders the growth of a young individual (especially for girls). BloomTV
invited four speakers, who already have a great contribution in the field of
STEM.
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| From left to right: Valenice Balace, Shaina Tantuico, Michelle Tapia, Mylene Abiva and Michelle Santos |
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Mylene
Abiva, President/CEO of Felta Multimedia, just arrived in Manila coming from
the World Robot Olympiad 2015 in Doha, Qatar. I am very inspired by her passion
to educate and impart something to the young people as she tells stories of her
journey in facilitating education about Robotics and Mechatronics all around
the Philippines.
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Michelle
Santos, Developer Relations Manager- Globe Labs, shares a story about how she
ends up working at Globe. Her STEM journey started in UST specifically when
she starts doing things that requires a physical action, adding to the factor that during that
time female student in UST is required to wear a “palda”. However, because she overcome that hardship, she is now working as a Developer Relations Manager in Globe Labs.
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Shaina
Tantuico, Co-Founder, and Executive Director of JeepNeed, refers to
herself as a reverse balik-bayan because her family was already migrated to a
different nation. However, for some reasons she return back in the Philippines. She
is now working as one of the head person in APEC. She tells us a story about one of
their projects in Sarangani in how they innovate a simple
ruler stick that helps fisherman in the area to easily identify through the length of the fish if its healthy or not.
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Valenice
Balace, CEO of Peekawoo, is a very young CEO. She told us a
story about her journey and her inspiration in making the dating app –
Peekawoo. She told us that she created the apps which she thinks that will fit in the
taste of a women, which encourage the self-worth of an individual rather
than just the look.
The BloomTV presents
BLOOM IN STEM, an annual interactive and innovative un-conference with the
brightest minds in Science, Technology, and Engineering & Mathematics in
the Philippines next year – March 5, 2016. For more news about this event,
please click on the link below:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1493142060982074/
For more information:
https://www.facebook.com/bloomtvcom
