Karwin C. Hong–Commercial Cooking- Gold award

Reymar M. Garcia- IT/Software Application- Gold award

Cedrick Errol R. Sacopla- Restaurant Services- Silver Award

Christopher M. Deuda- IT/ Software Application- Silver Award

Jerald J. Villariez- Commercial Cooking- Cert. of Proficiency

Our school sent five contestants to compete at the three (3) trades/areas such as Cooking, Restaurant Services and IT/Software Applications with more than 15 colleges and universities in the province of Cavite vying for the awards. Our champions will vie for the higher level , the Regional Skills Competition to be held in January 2012.

The skills competition serves as a venue to showcase and recognize the competence of students of TVET institutions in different trade areas such as Mechatronics, Welding, IT/Software Applications, Electrical Installation Technology, Automotive Technology, Cooking, Restaurant Services, Graphic Design and Fashion Technology.

The ceremony was held in Sisters of Mary Boystown and graced by Dir. Elmer Talavera, TESDA Regional Director, Office of the Mayor of Silang and  other provincial TESDA officials.

Six  (6)  ROTC units (schools) who joined  the olympics were  CAVSU Rosario ROTC unit, CAVSU Indang ROTC unit, CAVSU Naic ROTC Unit, Perpetual Help University, Olivarez Colleges ROTC Unit, CAVSU Imus/Silang  ROTC unit and the NCST ROTC unit; with the  total local school’s attendees count of 43 cadets.

The events (games) participated in by the cadets ranges from tug-of-war, truck pushing, obstacle course, sack race, dart, chess and the 400 meter relay.

Our commendation to our Tactical Officer, Capt. Josetrino Rada (Res- AFRESCOM). This is another job well done!

Ms. Joy Deocaresa was declared Champion in Keyboarding  and Ms. MM De Guzman got the 2^nd place in Stenography at the recently concluded 8^th NATIONAL PASOA  SKILLS COMPETITION held at St. Mary’s University, Bayombong  Nueva Vizcaya , November 28-29. The event was spearheaded by the Philippine Association of Students in Office Administration (PASOA) and the Philippine Association of Educators in Office Administration Foundation Inc. (PAEOAF) with this year’s theme, PASOA @8: Leveling –Up. The activities included series of talks, skills competitions, Search for Mr. &Miss PASOA 2011 and a visit to Diadi Eco Park. Twenty (20) colleges and universities all over the Philippines joined the contest ,with NCST’s total participants of 32 students.  Declared winners  were :

Keyboarding Category

1^st- National College of Science and Technology Dasmariñas, Cavite

2^nd-De la Salle University- Dasmariñas City, Cavite

3^rd- Mt. View College– Bukidnon, Mindanao

Shorthand Category

1st-Don Mariano State University-Sn. Fernando,

La Union

2^nd- Mt. View College- Bukidnon, Mindanao

3^rd- National College of Science & Technology- Dasmariñas  City, Cavite

Mr. and Ms. PASOA

Ms. PASOA

1^st-  PUP- Lopez, Quezon

2^nd- University of Cordillera- Baguio City

3^rd- Mt. View College- Bukidnon, Mindanao

Mr. PASOA

1^st- De la Salle University- Dasmariñas City, Cavite

2^nd- Mt. View College- Bukidnon, Mindanao

3^rd-Central Mindanao University- Mindanao

“We will always be grateful to the students and to our NCST family for the support they are extending us. There was not much “instant” preparation. This achievement is a product of our day-to –day encounter with the students and how they were so receptive and serious in all their undertakings in this field of study”, Ms. Bolario summarizes.

NCST’s national performance was consistent with its Provincial Competition achievements. Since the initial membership to the Provincial Inter-Cavite Skills Competition of all AOM and BSOM students in 1998, NCST consistently got the Best in Stenography, Best in Keyboarding, Secretary of the year awards for seven (7) years. This was a proof of hard work and  hard driven motivation to succeed in these areas of learning.

The mentors of this department are Ms. Presentacion Bolario , past Coordinator, Ms. Aurora Bautista , present Course Adviser of Office Administration , Ms. Leonila Anaud and Ms. Marlene Laguna, who migrated to Canada in August of this year.  Ms. Bolario, Bautista and Laguna rendered their services to the institution since 1998, the year the school was founded.  Our congratulations to the whole department .

“Some members of the private sector have taken initiatives in promoting values formation, such as the National College of Science and Technology (NCST). Part of the curriculum of the school is to involve the students in social undertakings like bloodletting, and recently, the Chalk Para Kay Teacher drive of ABS-CBN. NCST president Emerson Atanacio believes that involving the students in charitable activities will make them better Filipinos. Upon hearing about our chalk drive, the students were able to raise some 300 boxes of chalk for our public school teachers overnight! Volunteerism and nation-building have become a culture for these college students.”

There’s a ring of trauma in the word “broken.” Almost immediately, when we hear of delinquent children, we try to trace the kind of family environment they grew up in. It is never easy for couples and their children to go through break-ups, but they don’t always produce stories ofteleserye drama material. In the movies, children from broken families can be portrayed as rebels, dropouts or even as drug users. It may be anti-climactic, but broken marriages can produce good people. My parents are separated, but I’m uncomfortable using the term broken.

Despite the difficulties, I found support in friends and some priests, and brothers in Sto. Domingo Church. A trip to the Carmel Monastery in Gilmore, and that brief encounter with Sr. Mary Bernard was an inspiration. We all need an outlet, and I found mine in prayer.

There are many success stories that arise from broken families like that of People’s Champ Manny Pacquiao or that of a world-class beauty queen… Surely, broken families did not deter them from being achievers. Family expert Maribel Dionisio says that our parents influence the children in two ways: We either become like them, or we strive to be their opposite.

If there is anything good about experiencing challenges at an early age, it prepares us for greater challenges ahead and makes us stronger people.

Family background plays a pivotal role in person’s character, especially at an age where the child is trying to find and discover himself. Most crucial in a child’s life is between 12 to 17 years old, or what is called the “trouble years.” At that age, a teenager needs the guidance of parents the most as he is transitioning from childhood to adolescence. When a child is experiencing these emotional, physical and psychological changes, he needs a stable family foundation. Rocking the boat during puberty may be tricky, but not impossible.

Looking back, I feel that family problems have become more of a convenient excuse for rebellion. Reality is, family problems have always existed, broken or not. The influences outside the family, the support and the environment of the child are just as detrimental.

Blame media for too much drama, vulgarity and bad news. Take the shooting incident in Pampanga involving minors as an example. Some psychiatrists believe that the shooting incident in Pampanga may have been triggered by the shooting incident at SM North Edsa days before, also called the Copycat Syndrome. The World Health Organization came out with guidelines on how to report incidents of suicide and violence — with discretion and omission of certain graphic details because studies have proven that some individuals desiring attention by committing suicide imitate the act. Copycat.

It’s about time we take our role more seriously. Recommendations by the Anak TV as to which programs are child-friendly should be given weight by our networks.

The Internet, on the other hand, is the respite of the troubled youth. Too much information when unsupervised poses dangerous risks. Also, nowadays, everyone is part of a social network. Search a name and you can instantly find friends from decades ago. Giving out too much information makes one vulnerable to predators, which has been the case in numerous news reports about date rape.

What will become of our youth? Certainly, don’t just blame the family. The onset of absentee parents confronts us as Filipinos look for greener pastures abroad. Former Pres. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo in 2004 formed the Presidential Commission for Values Formation asking the different church organizations to contribute in the values formation of the Filipinos. It is not clear what has happened to that program, but it sounds promising. We should not only address the economic needs of the family, but also the void in values of the children brought about by parents leaving the Philippines.

Some good news: Some members of the private sector have taken initiatives in promoting values formation, such as the National College of Science and Technology (NCST). Part of the curriculum of the school is to involve the students in social undertakings like bloodletting, and recently, the Chalk Para Kay Teacher drive of ABS-CBN. NCST president Emerson Atanacio believes that involving the students in charitable activities will make them better Filipinos. Upon hearing about our chalk drive, the students were able to raise some 300 boxes of chalk for our public school teachers overnight! Volunteerism and nation-building have become a culture for these college students.