‘Energy Camp’ for teachers, students mulled

• Source: http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?nid=2&rid=818800
• Friday, October 23, 2015

(PNA), FPV/CD/MARK FRANCISCO

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, Oct. 23 (PNA) - More than 30 public schools here without electricity would undergo an extra-curricular training on “energy conservation,” a company executive said Friday.

Jeffrey O. Tarayao, the president of One Meralco Foundation, said that the public school teachers would come from both elementary and high school division who would also be tasked to impart the training to students.

Tarayao said that the training would focus on subject about energy conservation where public school teachers would use the “old school class cards” during demonstrations in schools without electricity.

The topics on the flash cards would delve around energy, which would be integrated into the English, Math, Science, Technology Livelihood Education, Edukasyon Pantahanan at Pangkabuhayan and Values Education subjects.

“We intend to educate the youth about energy – how it is harnessed and conserved – so they become responsible electricity consumers. The targeted beneficiaries are from fourth to tenth graders,” Tarayao said.

By the end of the year, the public school students from Cagayan De Oro would join their colleagues from the cities of Batangas (Luzon) and Dumaguete (Visayas) as pilot beneficiaries of the project, he said.

“Over the long term, we hope to teach students the nature and proper use of electricity, which they would hopefully cascade to their friends and most especially their parents and siblings at home,” Tarayao said.