TO OPEN the different courses of the School of Science and Engineering (SOSE) to the community was the goal of this year’s “SOSExperience,” a two week-long event from September 15 to 27.
This year’s event opened the “SOSE experience” not only to Ateneans but also to some students from chosen public and private high schools within Metro Manila.
SOSExperience aims to show the fun side of SOSE to Ateneans, and to familiarize high school students with the different SOSE courses, said Project Head Carl Jensen Co (III BS MIS).
Together with the different SOSE departments, the Sanggunian organized this event as a follow up of last year’s “SOSExchange.”
Yogurt, ice cream
SOSExperience offered 17 classes, which included classes on game development, ice cream making, yogurt making, math in movies, and eating disorders.
The top three classes that students signed up for were ice cream making, yogurt making, and game development classes.
Biology Lecturer Russel Julian said the number of students for his yogurt making class increased 50% from last year’s classes. “Last year we only had four,” he said. “This is a fairly receptive group.”
College classes were conducted Mondays to Fridays for about an hour and a half. The high school classes were conducted on September 20 and 27.
Classes offered were taught by SOSE teachers not as a class lecture but more as an interactive workshop, said Christine Chan (III BSM AMF), Sanggu executive officer and course representative.
School pride
Noia Mae Mendoza (III AB Chns) enjoyed the yogurt making class. “It is not everyday that you can make yogurt, and it is also efficient because you can make yogurt out of scratch and you don’t have to buy at [the] supermarket,” she said.
Joshua Rex Cheng (II BS CS), a participant of the game development class, said SOSExperience was a good way to expose students to classes they might want to take as free electives. “It gave us a good idea of what we would expect when we take it,” he said.
Tobi Tobias (II BS CS), however, expected more “on the line of games” on the game development class. “But at least I got an overview of…3D animation [during the class],” he said.
For Louise Ingrid Salud (I BS CTM), SOSExperience was educational. “For students that cannot experience chemistry, it’s a good opportunity for them to experience it, so that their opinion on chemistry will change,” she said in a mix of English and Filipino.
Chan hopes that SOSE students will appreciate more what their school offers them. “For non-SOSE students, I hope they will be amazed and appreciate what SOSE does.”
