PREPARATIONS SET FOR CATSU LAB SCHOOLS’ DEBUT HOSTING OF 2025 DIVISON PRESS MEET
EDUCATION AND RESEARCH (ED)With just four days left before
the province's top campus journalists convene, the Catanduanes State
University—Laboratory Schools is ramping up its preparations for its first time
hosting of the 2025 Division Schools Press Conference.
School Principal Joerandy C.
Tablizo shared that the campus is 90% ready for the January 10–12 event.
“Buildings are ready. We are now
focusing on cleanliness and orderliness to make the venue conducive for all
attendees,” he said in an interview today, January 7.
Tablizo also shared that he
conducted a meeting with all faculty members yesterday, January 6, to prepare
the classrooms and even hired additional utility workers to assist with
cleaning, as some extra rooms will be utilized that do not have assigned
advisers.
“On our part, we have to prepare
the venue. All our rooms are air-conditioned and equipped with TVs. The rest of
the preparations will be handled by the Division Association of Secondary
School Paper Advisers (DASSPA), the Catanduanes Association of Elementary
School Paper Advisers (CAESPA) and the Department of Education – Schools
Division of Catanduanes,” the school principal added.
Following the faculty meeting,
Tablizo met with the Division Campus Journalism In-Charge Dr. Gina Bonifacio
Pantino, and DASSPA President Jefferson Sebastian Arcilla, along with top
university officials, including Vice President for Academic Affairs Dr. Gemma
G. Acedo and Vice President for Administrative and Financial Affairs Engr.
Benjamin Hannycel T. Nuyda, to finalize the event venues.
The university gymnasium will
host the opening program, which is expected to welcome approximately 1,500
participants from across the province, including coaches.
Additional venues include the
Juris Doctor (JD) rooms and accreditation room, located at the third floor of
the university’s Administrative Building, which will accommodate events like
photojournalism, cartooning, sports writing, and Bicol Catandungan poetry
writing.
Meanwhile, most individual
competitions will take place in the Laboratory Schools building, while group
events such as television and radio broadcasting will be prepared there but
presented in the gymnasium.
In terms of the sound system and
LED operations, Tablizo shared that the University Library Services will
facilitate the said tasks.
For the transportation of
participants from billeting schools: Juan M. Alberto Memorial Elementary School
and Gogon Elementary School, the university bus will be used.
Anchored on the theme ‘Unto the
Centerfold: Shaping Stories in the Shine of Catandunganon Faith and Fortitude’,
the three-day event is expected to be attended by the schools division
superintendent of DepEd-SDO Catanduanes, the officer-in-charge of the
university, the principal of the Laboratory Schools, and other key officials.
Photo: DASSPA Catanduanes
