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ILOILO City – The city government’s Local Economic and Investments Promotion Office (LEIPO) conducted a robotics training workshop at Diamond Jubilee Hall recently.
Mayor Jose Espinosa III said the initiative complemented the metropolis’ positioning as a digital city with various technological innovations being put in place.
Some 250 Junior and Senior High School students participated.
The workshop was part of the campaign ILOVATION or Iloilo Innovation.
“This is just an introduction to robotics. Iloilo has been identified as one of first digital cities in the Philippines by the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) and this workshop boosted that aspect,” said LEIPO head Ritchel Gavan.
“This is a sort of awareness to the public that robotics is not only available outside the Philippines. It is also available in the City of Iloilo as long as we tapped private partners who can provide workshop like this,” said Gavan.
The event was in partnership with UBTech that helps innovators grasp the possibilities of robotics in industry.
Cherry Mae Pandes from the University of Iloilo (UI)-PHINMA said the workshop equipped her with knowledge on how to assemble robots and how to program it.
“Our course is Senior High is Technical Vocational Livelihood major in programming, so this really helps us with our lessons in class. Considering that we are now high-tech, maybe we can produce robots later on which can do things like human or who can help in businesses,” said Pandes. (Merianne Grace J. Ereñeta, Iloilo City PIO)/PN
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