Bringing technological innovations to students across the province—The Central Philippine University Philippine Society of Mechanical Engineers and Integrated Institute of Electrical Engineers held a seminar-workshop entitled, “Engineering Innovations: A Workshop on Arduino Microcontroller,” at the Leonora S. Salapantan National High School on February 20, 2018
In the orientation, Engr. Gelvie C. Lagos encouraged the students to take an interest in software engineering while CPU Software Engineering students gave a lecture on the basics of software programming, its importance, and how it can be used to help Filipino communities. The group also taught about Arduino-an open-source platform used for building electronics projects. Arduino consists of both a physical programmable circuit board (often referred to as a microcontroller) and a piece of software or IDE (Integrated Development Environment) that runs computers and is used to write and upload computer code to the physical board.
As part of their activity, the participants using the Arduino were given the task of brainstorming and putting into practical use a project which will be beneficial to their school and community in general. Some of the projects include street lights for their municipality and motion sensor lights which will help schools save on electricity.
The CPU College of Engineering also gave an Arduino kit to Leonora S. Salapantan National High School. The kit will help students learn and develop skills in basic software engineering.
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