This year, hundreds of public high schools (PHS) will become recipient of the iSchools project. The project briefing was conducted on December 9, 2008 in Iloilo Grand Hotel, Iloilo city, which was participated in and coordinated by 8 lead implementing State Colleges and Universities in region 6. These schools are ASU, CAPSU, GSC, NIPSC, NONESCOST, PSCA, WVCST AND WVSU.The project briefing started with a registration at 8:00 o'clock in the morning and followed by welcome ceremonies at 9:00, where Dr. Luis M. Sorolla, President of WVST gave the welcome address.
According Pres. Sorolla, "this next batch of recipients will really benefit the from the project, especially in the aspect of hardware and training, since region 6 way back in June was devastated by typhoon Frank, which caused damages to farms, and infrastructures ". To this effect, iSchools will somehow balance partially what was lost during the calamity especially in terms of ICT facilities.
The purpose of this briefing is to present the CICT and the SUC project team. In addition, the overview about the CICT iSchools project will be explained to the participants. This briefing was participated in by Principals, PTC coordinators and local officials.
WVSU has a total of five (5) PHS to supervise this year, and they are Dapdap, Barosong, Valverde, Pitogo, and Adriano Cabardo National High Schools. These schools are located in the rural areas with an average of 40 kilometers distance from the downtown Iloilo.
