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At first, you might think "I Hear U" is just a textspeak, sounding hip especially for today's text generation. But I Hear U somewhere in Palawan is beyond that. It is an android mobile application to help persons with hearing impairment learn the ropes on finger spelling or communicating using alpha and numerical systems through hand gestures.

While most teens are busy posting status messages and selfies, Marian Elaine Dechaves and Charmaine Aubrey Galindez are doing something more serious for their age. They hang out longer on their computers, not to post their outfits of the day or OOTDs, throwback Thursday or TBT photos, and hashtags but rather, they are writing program codes which someday could become huge especially in the age of the Internet of Things.

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The Philippines will host the Global Forum on Research and Innovation for Health 2015 or Forum 2015 on August 24-27, 2015 where over 2,000 delegates from the government, business, non-profit organizations, and academic and research institutions from at least 50 countries will convene to discuss and identify solutions to unmet global health needs.

To be held at the Philippine International Convention Center in Pasay City, Forum 2015 is jointly organized by the Department of Science and Technology through the Philippine Council for Health Research and Development (DOST-PCHRD) and the Department of Health (DOH) in cooperation with Council on Health Research and Development (COHRED), an international non-government organization that supports health research initiatives of developing countries.

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It was a clash of science smarts alright, but it was no quiz bee inside an auditorium.

Instead of contestants quietly sitting on chairs onstage, ready to answer science questions fielded to them by the quizmaster, competitors huddled around their tables excitedly to create and perform fun, science-based items and experiments amidst Manila Ocean Park’s amazing aquatic displays.

Tinkering with everyday materials like sticks, nails, strings, pencils, straws, bond paper, tape, eggs, and others, each team raced against time to prove that their school is the best and that they’ve got the smarts.