science is boring but I was always in
love with science when I was young I
would read books about dinosaurs animals
space I consumed television shows like
National Geographic and seen escuela I
grew up in an environment where I was
encouraged to ask questions and find
answers to them as I grew up however I
soon realized that science wasn’t as
attractive to many people as it was for
me I was just very fortunate to have
grown up with people who shared my
interests and so I asked myself why this
has led me on a journey with science and
that journey began one night I was a
dormer and freshman year high school and
my door mate asked me a question Wow if
you had 1 million pesos to improve
science education in the Philippines how
would you use it I was shocked I wasn’t
ready for that Miss Universe question I
was expecting something more along the
lines of ready gonna be Paris a test for
us but that question while it wasn’t the
most well thought out one has sparked a
conversation that continues until today
even if I do not have a million pesos
now the very thought of being able to
contribute to science education as a
student inspired me to take on this
pursuit a pursuit towards creating a
culture of science so what is the
culture of science a culture of science
is a world where Filipinos are aware of
the role of science and technology in
their daily lives it’s not a world where
filipinos all take science as a
profession but were filipinos value
science where our limitations can become
exciting opportunities and today I’m
going to share review
three ways we can create a culture of
science informal learning chika Han and
science diplomacy it’s not meant to be a
comprehensive plan on creating a culture
of science it’s just a collection of
proposals that I’d like everyone here to
think over talk about and later on act
upon so three years after that freshman
night dorm I was taking an innovation
class in high school and Vita we had a
homework on informal learning we were
asked to interview members of our school
community on informal learning and got
to know what they knew about it and
afterwards taking the insights from
those interviews designed solution so we
could improve informal learning
opportunities in our school that was the
first time that I encountered informal
learning so what is it informal learning
is spontaneous
it’s where the learner takes the shots
calls the shots it’s an opportunity for
the learner to change direction when
needed it’s an opportunity for them to
learn even more for example a TED talk
listening to a TED talk is informal
learning you may not have control over
what I say but you are in an environment
where you are challenged to question and
talk about these talks with your fellow
audience members so how does this help
create a culture of science whenever we
scroll down our newsfeed look at science
articles whenever we engage in a
conversation about science we are
allowing ourselves to contribute to
creating a culture of science a few
weeks ago my friend and I we concluded
our first science communication class
for grade 10 students we had them read
science journal articles full-length
journal articles you know 10 20 pages
then afterwards we would write about it
we would make posters on those articles
maybe then we would talk about it in
class and I was really impressed by
these great land students they took on
the challenge of reading these
full-length journal articles
and learning more about these concepts
that they had never heard of before and
even daring to ask questions about it
daring to challenge what they had read
and in one of the classes they were
presenting their poster to a panel of
scientists and their topic was about
greenhouse gases and one of the marine
scientists on the panel was studying
them oh did you know that 50% of carbon
dioxide is absorbed by rainforests and
the other 50% is absorbed by plants run
in the ocean and then one of the members
of the group that had just presented
asked the marine scientists we are an
open source everybody laughed but then
the marine scientist said that’s exactly
the question that I want to hear he
thought he told the kid you know I’m
young Facebook later and a message of
the article so the point isn’t that
journal articles are the be-all end-all
of knowledge is that we must always go
beyond the first impression it’s so easy
to simply take in everything that we
hear or watch true or false depending on
what we believe in but reality isn’t
that simple it’s much more exciting than
that and it all begins with questions
questioning or preconceived notions
questioning or standards questioning the
status quo this curiosity will drive us
to look for more opportunities to learn
curiosity drives informal learning
curiosity is also at the heart of
scientific discovery science is a way of
thinking defined by curiosity thanks to
the scientists who have dared to ask
questions about the things around them
thanks to the scientists who dared to
examine the anomalies around them we
have all of these innovations and
knowledge so my personal suggestion is
to start asking questions about the
things you’re passionate about whether
it’s about philosophy politics of method
intelligence building desktops k-pop
groups it doesn’t have to be about
science as long as you’re asking
questions
and making discoveries along the way
that science dare to ask so I did my
homework on the informal learning
interviews so I started with my door
mates the obvious choice and as we as I
was interviewing them that interview
turned into a heated conversation about
science education because it was fueled
by our senioritis or research project
and our the k-12 bill and so that
conversation drove us it inspired us to
pull all of our passion for science
education into creating an organization
that would be able to implement the
ideas that we had ideas to create a
YouTube channel on Filipino science to
create science camps for high school
students across the country to design a
new brand of science magazines so we
took all these ideas and founded
integrating science in the Philippines
or ISA Estep has led me on a lot of
informal learning opportunities and it
all started with chicka Hannah so what
is chicken chicken is the time that we
spend conversing with other people
outside of planned schedule it usually
happens after a meeting or after an
event and the time after the event or
the meeting and the time before we leave
the room just like informal learning
it’s spontaneous
but sometimes chicken is associated with
gossip and a waste of time
but I believe that chica Han is an
opportunity for us to create a culture
of silence how does it help create a
culture of science
chica Han builds ideas the story of how
each step came about is a perfect
example of this chick AHA and builds
relationships in my experience managing
communities like esup I realized that
the time that we spend outside of
meetings and outside of work just
talking about random things getting to
know each other is just as important as
the time we spend working chica han
connects people and ideas we invited
scientists over for our science camp to
panel and they came quite early
they were also from different fields we
had an astrophysicist
we had geologists over and so I
introduced them to each other and they
began talking they began sharing their
backgrounds their work their passion and
that chick aha moment was an opportunity
for them to connect and build their
network so where do we begin
chicken hand is all about time so making
time is important but of course this
won’t all happen in an instant we have
to reach a critical point so the
question is how much time are you
willing to spend chicken is also about
people we intentionally invite
scientists over to our science camp so
they can converse with the students so
that there will be an exchange of
experienced insights questions in the
same way we should also seek out people
from whom we can learn who can add value
to our pursuits people we would make
time for so try asking out our expert in
your field or an expert in a completely
unfamiliar field ask them out for coffee
or for beer who knows they might be your
future collaborator or mentor last
December I was connected by my friend to
the University of Pennsylvania science
diplomacy group science diplomacy what’s
that that was the first time I had ever
heard of science diplomacy but they were
very interested in Egypt they wanted to
know what we were doing who we were and
they also wanted to know about science
education in the Philippines so I seize
the opportunity to meet them since I was
going to the States to visit my dad
anyway for the holidays so what is
science diplomacy science diplomacy is
the use of science to advance
collaboration among communities
institutions and more pertinently
Nations through science diplomacy
scientists are able to immerse
themselves in communities outside of
their own they are able to engage so how
does this help create a culture of
science science diplomacy brings the
government closer to science last March
21 binoy scientists
group led by astrophysicists and data
scientist dr. Rena Reyes and journalist
Shai Piniella coordinated with the
Senate Committee on science technology
and engineering to organize the very
first roundtable discussion among
scientists stakeholders and the
government esup was invited and it was a
very great learning opportunity for us
we learned about the Magna Carta for
scientists the Billick scientists
program the different ideas the
scientists had to include science and
data experts in different government
agencies the national space Development
Program and science education science
diplomacy brings industry closer to
science in my experience as a student
being active in organizing startup
events and attending hackathons I’ve
witnessed how scientists and engineers
can drive innovation through startups by
bringing together their expertise and a
passion for entrepreneurship science
diplomacy brings the public closer to
science
the recent marches of science held in
Washington DC and in Quezon City showed
us that people need to know more about
what is happening the scientific
community especially now in a rapidly
changing environment so as you can see
science diplomacy is about bringing
people together and this is where
informal learning and Chicana and
culminate on a global level so where do
we begin the University of Pennsylvania
science diplomacy group started out with
meetups and talks like the one I
attended just sharing pizza and coke and
that provided them an opportunity to
listen to different perspectives to
listen to different views and in the
same way you must also seek out
opportunities where we can hear or watch
different perspectives where we can
listen to views that we don’t
necessarily agree with it’s my dream
that Philippine universities will have
their own science diplomacy groups so
that science advocates can let their
voice be heard and students will become
more informed because when we’re more
informed we can take a stand
science is boring because we don’t
cultivate the culture for it to grow
informal learning taught me that science
is a way of thinking chicka Han taught
me that science the way of communicating
science diplomacy taught me that science
is a way of bringing people together
these are the tools that we can use to
create a culture of science and in order
to do that we need scientists scientists
not as a profession but as a way of life
it’s not that hard we all have a
scientist in us we can start in our
comfort zones on the screens of our
phones the question that I was asked in
freshman year no longer haunts me what
haunts me now are the questions how many
more Filipinos out there are taking on
the challenge of thinking along the same
lines with all our efforts be enough and
as I continue my work in esup I need
more and more people who are answering
similar questions today is no different
today
I pass on the question that began my
journey with science today I asked you
if you were given a million pesos to
improve science education in the
Philippines how would you use it
[Applause]
you
[Applause]
love with science when I was young I
would read books about dinosaurs animals
space I consumed television shows like
National Geographic and seen escuela I
grew up in an environment where I was
encouraged to ask questions and find
answers to them as I grew up however I
soon realized that science wasn’t as
attractive to many people as it was for
me I was just very fortunate to have
grown up with people who shared my
interests and so I asked myself why this
has led me on a journey with science and
that journey began one night I was a
dormer and freshman year high school and
my door mate asked me a question Wow if
you had 1 million pesos to improve
science education in the Philippines how
would you use it I was shocked I wasn’t
ready for that Miss Universe question I
was expecting something more along the
lines of ready gonna be Paris a test for
us but that question while it wasn’t the
most well thought out one has sparked a
conversation that continues until today
even if I do not have a million pesos
now the very thought of being able to
contribute to science education as a
student inspired me to take on this
pursuit a pursuit towards creating a
culture of science so what is the
culture of science a culture of science
is a world where Filipinos are aware of
the role of science and technology in
their daily lives it’s not a world where
filipinos all take science as a
profession but were filipinos value
science where our limitations can become
exciting opportunities and today I’m
going to share review
three ways we can create a culture of
science informal learning chika Han and
science diplomacy it’s not meant to be a
comprehensive plan on creating a culture
of science it’s just a collection of
proposals that I’d like everyone here to
think over talk about and later on act
upon so three years after that freshman
night dorm I was taking an innovation
class in high school and Vita we had a
homework on informal learning we were
asked to interview members of our school
community on informal learning and got
to know what they knew about it and
afterwards taking the insights from
those interviews designed solution so we
could improve informal learning
opportunities in our school that was the
first time that I encountered informal
learning so what is it informal learning
is spontaneous
it’s where the learner takes the shots
calls the shots it’s an opportunity for
the learner to change direction when
needed it’s an opportunity for them to
learn even more for example a TED talk
listening to a TED talk is informal
learning you may not have control over
what I say but you are in an environment
where you are challenged to question and
talk about these talks with your fellow
audience members so how does this help
create a culture of science whenever we
scroll down our newsfeed look at science
articles whenever we engage in a
conversation about science we are
allowing ourselves to contribute to
creating a culture of science a few
weeks ago my friend and I we concluded
our first science communication class
for grade 10 students we had them read
science journal articles full-length
journal articles you know 10 20 pages
then afterwards we would write about it
we would make posters on those articles
maybe then we would talk about it in
class and I was really impressed by
these great land students they took on
the challenge of reading these
full-length journal articles
and learning more about these concepts
that they had never heard of before and
even daring to ask questions about it
daring to challenge what they had read
and in one of the classes they were
presenting their poster to a panel of
scientists and their topic was about
greenhouse gases and one of the marine
scientists on the panel was studying
them oh did you know that 50% of carbon
dioxide is absorbed by rainforests and
the other 50% is absorbed by plants run
in the ocean and then one of the members
of the group that had just presented
asked the marine scientists we are an
open source everybody laughed but then
the marine scientist said that’s exactly
the question that I want to hear he
thought he told the kid you know I’m
young Facebook later and a message of
the article so the point isn’t that
journal articles are the be-all end-all
of knowledge is that we must always go
beyond the first impression it’s so easy
to simply take in everything that we
hear or watch true or false depending on
what we believe in but reality isn’t
that simple it’s much more exciting than
that and it all begins with questions
questioning or preconceived notions
questioning or standards questioning the
status quo this curiosity will drive us
to look for more opportunities to learn
curiosity drives informal learning
curiosity is also at the heart of
scientific discovery science is a way of
thinking defined by curiosity thanks to
the scientists who have dared to ask
questions about the things around them
thanks to the scientists who dared to
examine the anomalies around them we
have all of these innovations and
knowledge so my personal suggestion is
to start asking questions about the
things you’re passionate about whether
it’s about philosophy politics of method
intelligence building desktops k-pop
groups it doesn’t have to be about
science as long as you’re asking
questions
and making discoveries along the way
that science dare to ask so I did my
homework on the informal learning
interviews so I started with my door
mates the obvious choice and as we as I
was interviewing them that interview
turned into a heated conversation about
science education because it was fueled
by our senioritis or research project
and our the k-12 bill and so that
conversation drove us it inspired us to
pull all of our passion for science
education into creating an organization
that would be able to implement the
ideas that we had ideas to create a
YouTube channel on Filipino science to
create science camps for high school
students across the country to design a
new brand of science magazines so we
took all these ideas and founded
integrating science in the Philippines
or ISA Estep has led me on a lot of
informal learning opportunities and it
all started with chicka Hannah so what
is chicken chicken is the time that we
spend conversing with other people
outside of planned schedule it usually
happens after a meeting or after an
event and the time after the event or
the meeting and the time before we leave
the room just like informal learning
it’s spontaneous
but sometimes chicken is associated with
gossip and a waste of time
but I believe that chica Han is an
opportunity for us to create a culture
of silence how does it help create a
culture of science
chica Han builds ideas the story of how
each step came about is a perfect
example of this chick AHA and builds
relationships in my experience managing
communities like esup I realized that
the time that we spend outside of
meetings and outside of work just
talking about random things getting to
know each other is just as important as
the time we spend working chica han
connects people and ideas we invited
scientists over for our science camp to
panel and they came quite early
they were also from different fields we
had an astrophysicist
we had geologists over and so I
introduced them to each other and they
began talking they began sharing their
backgrounds their work their passion and
that chick aha moment was an opportunity
for them to connect and build their
network so where do we begin
chicken hand is all about time so making
time is important but of course this
won’t all happen in an instant we have
to reach a critical point so the
question is how much time are you
willing to spend chicken is also about
people we intentionally invite
scientists over to our science camp so
they can converse with the students so
that there will be an exchange of
experienced insights questions in the
same way we should also seek out people
from whom we can learn who can add value
to our pursuits people we would make
time for so try asking out our expert in
your field or an expert in a completely
unfamiliar field ask them out for coffee
or for beer who knows they might be your
future collaborator or mentor last
December I was connected by my friend to
the University of Pennsylvania science
diplomacy group science diplomacy what’s
that that was the first time I had ever
heard of science diplomacy but they were
very interested in Egypt they wanted to
know what we were doing who we were and
they also wanted to know about science
education in the Philippines so I seize
the opportunity to meet them since I was
going to the States to visit my dad
anyway for the holidays so what is
science diplomacy science diplomacy is
the use of science to advance
collaboration among communities
institutions and more pertinently
Nations through science diplomacy
scientists are able to immerse
themselves in communities outside of
their own they are able to engage so how
does this help create a culture of
science science diplomacy brings the
government closer to science last March
21 binoy scientists
group led by astrophysicists and data
scientist dr. Rena Reyes and journalist
Shai Piniella coordinated with the
Senate Committee on science technology
and engineering to organize the very
first roundtable discussion among
scientists stakeholders and the
government esup was invited and it was a
very great learning opportunity for us
we learned about the Magna Carta for
scientists the Billick scientists
program the different ideas the
scientists had to include science and
data experts in different government
agencies the national space Development
Program and science education science
diplomacy brings industry closer to
science in my experience as a student
being active in organizing startup
events and attending hackathons I’ve
witnessed how scientists and engineers
can drive innovation through startups by
bringing together their expertise and a
passion for entrepreneurship science
diplomacy brings the public closer to
science
the recent marches of science held in
Washington DC and in Quezon City showed
us that people need to know more about
what is happening the scientific
community especially now in a rapidly
changing environment so as you can see
science diplomacy is about bringing
people together and this is where
informal learning and Chicana and
culminate on a global level so where do
we begin the University of Pennsylvania
science diplomacy group started out with
meetups and talks like the one I
attended just sharing pizza and coke and
that provided them an opportunity to
listen to different perspectives to
listen to different views and in the
same way you must also seek out
opportunities where we can hear or watch
different perspectives where we can
listen to views that we don’t
necessarily agree with it’s my dream
that Philippine universities will have
their own science diplomacy groups so
that science advocates can let their
voice be heard and students will become
more informed because when we’re more
informed we can take a stand
science is boring because we don’t
cultivate the culture for it to grow
informal learning taught me that science
is a way of thinking chicka Han taught
me that science the way of communicating
science diplomacy taught me that science
is a way of bringing people together
these are the tools that we can use to
create a culture of science and in order
to do that we need scientists scientists
not as a profession but as a way of life
it’s not that hard we all have a
scientist in us we can start in our
comfort zones on the screens of our
phones the question that I was asked in
freshman year no longer haunts me what
haunts me now are the questions how many
more Filipinos out there are taking on
the challenge of thinking along the same
lines with all our efforts be enough and
as I continue my work in esup I need
more and more people who are answering
similar questions today is no different
today
I pass on the question that began my
journey with science today I asked you
if you were given a million pesos to
improve science education in the
Philippines how would you use it
[Applause]
you
[Applause]
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