The
CAGAYANLifestyle TIMES Weekly de Oro
Volume 4 | No. 34 | Cagayan de Oro City | April 3-9, 2017
The Night Stalker:
Opens 1st Certified Store in Mindanao:
Building on the Future, with a heart L EGO opened its 6th Certified Store in Centrio Mall, Cagayan de Oro City last Saturday, 01 April 2017. A LEGO Certified Store has a Pick-a-Brick wall (a custom-built fixture where shoppers can hand-pick the brick they need); fully assembled LEGO sets; and a play area in the middle of the store. It is also the global toymaker’s first Certified Store in Mindanao. “The LEGO brand goes beyond being one of the top global toymakers,
we are a beloved builder of childhood fantasies,” said LEGO Executive Sharlene Ortiga. “We aim to inspire and engage the world’s builders by injecting fun into play.” LEGO Centrio is the fifth in a series of stores that will open from Manila to Davao in the country under the company’s “Better With Every Brick” campaign. LEGO has partnered with UNICEF Philippines to work together to help build the first National Center for Children with Disabilities at the Philippine General
Hospital. UNICEF is the United Nations agency which promotes children’s welfare by protecting and defending the rights of children across 190 countries and regions. “This particular partnership with UNICEF Philippines resonates well with this dream to extend the opportunity to help more children by bringing the National Center for Children with Disabilities to reality,” Ms. Ortiga added. To support UNICEF’s program, a portion of the sales at LEGO Certified Stores across the country will help build the Center’s construction. For a minimum single receipt purchase of P3,
999.75, on any LEGO item from the LEGO Certified Store Centrio from April 1-30, 2017, P1, 000 of the sale proceeds will go to UNICEF to help build the Center. In addition, LEGO customers can also buy LEGO polybags to support the fundraising campaign for the National Center for Children with Disabilities with 100 percent of the proceeds going to the UNICEF Project. Each collectible bag features four different designs for only P100 each and comes from the LEGO Ninjago, LEGO Star Wars, LEGO Friends and LEGO Duplo lines. As part of the opening rites for the LEGO Centrio Store, a symbolic Youngest Lego Builder reaches for his dreams. (photo by Mike Baños, NPN) lego/PAGE 10
CDO female programmers push for limelight Story and Photo by MARK FRANCISCO
FOR several years now, female computer programmers have taken a backseat.
“One of the inspiring moments i experienced during the Kaamulan is witnessing the preservation of the heritage and tradition of the seven Hill Tribes of Bukidnon; I witnessed the richness of the tribes-people’s heritage and tradition, the historical culture passed from generations to generations. These ethnic cultures and heritage were translated into a thanksgiving, and that is the gathering.” photo by clement dampal
computer programmers in Northern Mindanao As Syntactics web are women. assistant engineering lead Maandig wants the Jhai Maandig would put percentage to rise equally at 50 percent. “After it, only 20 percent of the all, we have the same technical capabilities as the men. We receive the same training, we absorb the same learnings.” It is in this premise that Syntactics Pink was born. Syntactics Pink is the corporate social responsibility of the leading IT solutions provider in this part of the country. But beyond CSR, Syntactics Pink’s concern is really to entice graduating female students taking up
Information Technology and Computer Science in college to practice what they have learned in school by employing themselves as computer programmers. “It’s a sad truth that many female IT graduates contend themselves with being call center agents and other jobs. They have not practiced what they have learned – HTML and CSS coding, etc.,” Maandig said. It’s no coincidence that Syntactics Pink was started because the company’s CEO is a woman. Stephanie Caragos, one of the programmers/PAGE 11
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