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Students get award for rainfall monitoring and recording

Seventeen teams  of  primary pupils and secondary students  from all public and private schools will be awarded  outstanding regional  winners of the 2nd Rain Watchers Award.   Qualifiers are those engaged in Project Rain Gauge, which Smart Communications, Inc. started in 2007  in partnership with the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA).

      According to Mr. Darwin F.  Flores,  Smart’s Senior  Manager for Community Partnerships,  Project Rain Gauge is envisioned to create a network of supplementary ground stations across the country to provide additional data on local rainfall measurement in specific areas for a more effective and accurate local weather monitoring.  He said that involvement of  teachers and students  provides sustainability  to the project.

     “Schools are trained to regularly monitor and record rainfall data, which they send to a website (www.projectraingauge.ph ) hosted and maintained by Smart.”  Flores added.

     The search for outstanding rain watchers was suggested  last year by AGHAM Party-List Representative  Angelo  B.  Palmones,  who is also the Chairman of the Philippine Typhoon Committee Foundation, Inc. (TCFI),   aimed at widening the  participation of schools and sustaining  the interest of  students.

     The 2nd Rain Watchers Award was recently launched with the signing of the Memorandum of Agreement between the TCFI, PAGASA, the  Department of Education (DepEd) and AGHAM.

     “We support this effort to recognize the schools that have consistently and conscientiously monitored rainfall because we hope that the data gathered will  support PAGASA,  and complement the agency’s capacity to determine fine-scale rainfall patterns necessary  to describe local climate,”  Palmones said .   He  said that  the work being done by rain watchers  will  help in building data that will form the basis  for early warning systems in flood-prone communities.

          From the  regional,  top three national winners will be selected and awarded by November this year.  Regional winners will receive medals for the team  and laptops for their schools, while national winners will receive cash prizes, plaques of recognition, mobile phones and Smart Bro plug-it units.  Winning schools at the national level will receive desktop computers and Smart Bro plug-it units.    

     Interested schools can register in Project Rain Gauge  until April 30, 2011.   For more information,   access  www.projectraingauge.ph   (AGHAM/Vicky B. Bartilet)

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