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Author: Karen Y. Dañez- PSTC-Tarlac Director, DOST3

Signing of Memorandum of Agreement during the launching of Project MIST executed by Gov. Susan Yap (PGT), Dr. Julius Caesar V. Sicat (DOST), Dr. Myrna Mallari (TSU), and Mr. William Beltran (PIA) with Vice Gov. Carlito David, LMP President Mayor Esmelita Aquino, Municipal Mayors and DOST Provincial Director Karen Dañez

Government development programs used to be cascaded into communities without due consultation of the actual needs of the local residents. Thus, most of these projects are like strong gusts of winds that dissipate just as quickly with nary an impact on the lives of the people they were supposed to uplift.

With a project launched recently in Tarlac by the Provincial Science and Technology Center of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST), the above scenario will be a thing of the past.  As Dr. Julius Caesar V. Sicat, Regional Director of DOST in Central Luzon declared during its launch, Project MIST or Municipal Innovation through Science and Technology Project is a “people-centric approach to project identification and management.” This is a bottom-up strategy to ensure that right programs are crafted for their communities in as much as they are recruited as active stakeholders and not just passive recipients.”

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Author: Dhannize Mae M. Pili - SRS I, PSTC-Tarlac

(From L to R) PSTC-Tarlac Provincial Director Ms. Karen Y. Dañez, DOST 3 RD Dr. Julius Caesar V. Sicat,  Major General Cornelio H. Valencia, Jr. and Major Joven L. Caycong lead the ribbon cutting ceremonies of the newly established bakery facilities.

Army men and books is not an uncommon sight, but army men and baking? It takes one a while to get it into one’s head the vision of brawny-armed and muscle toned biceps wielding a rolling pin and mashing bread flour.

But for some of our men in uniform at the Philippine Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) at Camp O’Donnell, in Capas, Tarlac, this might soon be a “new normal.”

This, after the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) office in Central Luzon turned over a set of bakery equipment to the camp headed by Major General Cornelio H. Valencia, Jr. The agency provided the equipment under its Grants-in-Aid (GIA) program to enable TRADOC to produce veggie breads that could enhance the nutrition of men in uniform.

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Author: Dhannize Mae M. Pili - SRS I, DOST-III