“What do you want to be when you grow up?”
We’ve all heard it. It’s that basic query you get requested while you’re a child. Back then, your reply was in all probability easy: a health care provider, a pilot, a scientist. It’s a superbly simple reply. As we become old, our desires develop into clearer. What as soon as felt like an amazing purpose step by step takes type, changing into extra grounded as we navigate the experiences that form us.
Think again to the occasions you efficiently completed your innovations in college. Maybe it was while you lastly nailed that science recycling challenge, or while you found out the right way to make a robotic transfer. It’s small achievements like these that construct up and make our aspirations really feel attainable.
Oftentimes, all the youth wants are help and inspiration. With initiatives like the Department of Science and Technology’s (DOST) National Science, Technology, and Innovation Week, Filipino innovators get to expertise the newest developments in creating sustainable communities via new applied sciences.
DOST’s Role in Shaping the Innovators of Tomorrow
This 12 months, DOST brings the 2025 National Science, Technology, and Innovation Week (2025 NSTW) to “Sunshine City,” Laoag City, Ilocos Norte. From November 18 to 21, this four-day celebration gathers collaborating state universities and schools, authorities companies, and non-government organizations, to showcase the newest applied sciences geared in the direction of the subtheme, “Building Smart and Sustainable Communities.”
This annual occasion highlights breakthrough concepts involving Smart and Sustainable Agriculture, Smart Governance and Human Resources, Revolutionizing Micro, Small, and Medium-sized Enterprises (MSMEs) in the direction of Industry 4.0, and lots of extra.
There may even be boards tackling the newest scientific discoveries and developments, which embody Robotics R&D and Commercialization: Sustainability and Economic Growth in Industry 4.0 Era, From Hazards to Resilience: Translating Hazard Knowledge into Risk-Informed Action, and The Future of Communities: Learning from Neighbors in Asia.
Bringing Innovation to Life
As a part of DOST’s mission to make innovation accessible, they encourage energetic participation in occasions that showcase Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) ideas in inventive methods. These embody the launch of the Regional Yarn Production and Innovation Center in Ilocos Norte, which processes pure textile fibers like banana, abaca, and bamboo; the RoboTECH Cup, the place individuals design and program their very own robots; and the e-Games Development Competition, which challenges younger creators to develop instructional and socially related video games.
Be Part of the Future of Science
By connecting the subsequent era of scientists, college students, and different stakeholders with real-world challenges, DOST helps construct a future that’s technologically superior and socially accountable.
As the years go by, the query we as soon as confronted in the classroom evolves with us, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” The reply isn’t simply written on the whiteboard, however in the paths we select to take – how we use know-how to make the unimaginable, attainable.
The journey from dreamer to innovator is lengthy, however with the proper help from initiatives like DOST’s 2025 NSTW, the future is able to be formed by those that dare to think about the extraordinary.
For extra particulars about the occasion and to discover the full record of actions, go to the official NSTW Facebook Page and NSTW website.