Cebu Young Researchers Qualify National Invention Event

Five groups of high school and college student-researchers in Cebu will represent the Visayas in the National Invention Contest.

These students were winners in the 2013 Regional Invention Contest and Exhibits (RICE) sponsored by the Department of Science and Technology 7, Technology Application and Promotion and Institute, and the Visayas Inventors Association last Sept. 21. The winners bested 30 groups from the different parts of Visayas.

The research on “Postprandial Anti-Hyperglycemic Effect of an Alkaloid from Tinospora Rumphii” by the Mingnilla National Science High School students was declared winner, making it a qualifying entry to the National Invention Contest for SIBOL (Student Creative Research for High School).

Cebu Institute of Technology University students’ “Extraction and Purification of Bromelain from Pineapple Peelings Using PEG-Phosphate Aqueous Two-Phase System” and “Starch–Based Bioplastic Film Incorporated with Zn0 Nanorods Against Microbial Attack” by the student from the Philippine Science High School were also the winning entries (first runner up).

“A Model of High Pressure Atomizer for Increased Evaporation Rate” also by Mingnilla National Science High School (another group of researchers) grabbed 2nd spot.