PIA journalism seminar 

gets to Ubay Sci High 

TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol, August 1 (PIA)—Over four years after its last journalism training workshop, Ubay National Science High School (UNSHS) opened again for the Philippine Information Agency (PIA) School Campus Organ Operation and Production Seminar (SCOOPS), a two-day activity held at Casa Nipa, Bood Ubay. 

Already a regular school client for the PIA journalism workshops, UNSHS and its trainings temporarily stopped after the 2013 earthquake. 

It was also on October 12-13 in 2013 that the PIA conducted its SCOOPS at the UNSHS Robotics Building when the magnitude 7.2 earthquake hit Bohol. 

The first session for the seminar’s second day was about to start then when the tremor shook the building and PIA managed to guide the student writers to duck, cover, hold and regroup at the school’s open grounds. 

The PIA had to cut the training then. 

Four years later, UNSHS requested again for two-day training, which was set July 24-25. 

For Ubay, they intended a School-based Campus Journalism Training Seminar that ignites the mind of the young journalists in rowing the boat of journalism, as theme. 

46 student writers and three teacher advisers attended the writing workshop, the first which the PIA did through an online interactive writing via the social media platform. 

By online, student writers had to write their compositions and post them on their personal social media accounts and with a common training hashtag. 

Anyone who taps on the hashtag can see and read all the articles, photos and photo captions. 

That way, it was easier and the writers tend to be more formal in their articles and compositions, as it would be posted online. 

Topics included in the writeshop were Basic News writing, Basic Photojournalism including and practicum, Feature Writing and Practicum, and Junior Broadcasting and practicum with critiquing sessions. 

School paper adviser Glenda Acido, a new adviser said they are happy they availed of the workshops that they could help equip their student writers the right skills to run the school paper. 

Former writer and now UNSHS school teacher Ariel Rosales also shared how the PIA SCOOPS training helped him as a writer. 

The Ubay writeshop came after a similar writing orientation given to Garcia Hernandez high schools and in Santa Fe Bantayan Island, Cebu in June. 

This month too, the PIA SCOOPS team gets to Arbasto Foundation Inc in Panglao, and in Tolang National High School in Getafe by the last week. 

The same workshop has been tested and conducted for student writers and Department of Education school organ advisers in Siquijor District. (rahc/PIA-7/Bohol) 

The student writers of Ubay National Science High School completed a 2-day training writeshop called School Campus Organization Operation and Production Seminar for campus journalists with PIA and Ric Obedencio. (rahc/PIA-7/Bohol)