(Photo courtesy of DOST)
This was the call made by Department of Science and Technology-Mimaropa (DOST-Mimaropa) and the DOST-Technology Application Promotion Institute (TAPI) to all local inventors, designers, researchers, and students in the region.
The DOST-Mimaropa said both public and private sectors can compete in five categories. These are the Outstanding Invention (Tuklas Award), Outstanding Utility Model (Unlad Award), Outstanding Industrial Design (Banghay Award), Outstanding Creative Research (Likha Award), Outstanding Student Creative Research (Sibol Award) for High School and College Students.
It called on out-of-school youths to join the RICE as they were eligible to join either in the Creative Research Category or the Student Creative Research Category.