DCS Student Wins 2005 P&G Student Excellence Award
By Tristan Jed Roque (http://teejay.i.ph)
DCS student and UP Parser news editor Carlos Miguel M. Lasa was awarded the 2005 Procter & Gamble Student Excellence Award (SEA) last March 17 at the Manila Peninsula Hotel in Makati City.
He was one of the twelve awardees chosen this year, selected from a field of around 400 candidates, with three each coming from UP Diliman, DLSU, AdMU and UST.
The awarding ceremony was held in the Rigodon Ballroom of the Manila Peninsula, where Lasa bested the other four SEA finalists from the College of Engineering of UPD (three coming from Industrial Engineering, one from Civil Engineering).
It was the first time a DCS student won the award. Along with Lasa, UP students Donald Ngwe (Econ) and Maureen Valencia (BA) were also awarded.
The P&G SEA started in Academic Year 1999-2000 as a partnership program between P&G and its four partner universities in the academe. SEA seeks to recognize exceptional students who have consistently demonstrated academic excellence and organizational leadership and who best exemplify the ideals of their respective universities.
Together with the objective of recognizing the top students in their penultimate year, this year’s event was also the introduction to the celebration of P&G Philippines’ 70 years of “Touching Lives, Improving Filipino Life”.
The selection process was done through a nomination by the dean of the college, an application to the SEA, taking a problem-solving test, and undergoing several formal interviews with P&G managers.
Lasa, a former Parser managing editor, had previously served in the Engineering Student Council as a CS Representative during AY 2004-2005. He is currently a senior in the BSCS program and is the president of the UP Association of Computer Science Majors (UP CURSOR).
By Tristan Jed Roque (http://teejay.i.ph)
DCS student and UP Parser news editor Carlos Miguel M. Lasa was awarded the 2005 Procter & Gamble Student Excellence Award (SEA) last March 17 at the Manila Peninsula Hotel in Makati City.
He was one of the twelve awardees chosen this year, selected from a field of around 400 candidates, with three each coming from UP Diliman, DLSU, AdMU and UST.
The awarding ceremony was held in the Rigodon Ballroom of the Manila Peninsula, where Lasa bested the other four SEA finalists from the College of Engineering of UPD (three coming from Industrial Engineering, one from Civil Engineering).
It was the first time a DCS student won the award. Along with Lasa, UP students Donald Ngwe (Econ) and Maureen Valencia (BA) were also awarded.
The P&G SEA started in Academic Year 1999-2000 as a partnership program between P&G and its four partner universities in the academe. SEA seeks to recognize exceptional students who have consistently demonstrated academic excellence and organizational leadership and who best exemplify the ideals of their respective universities.
Together with the objective of recognizing the top students in their penultimate year, this year’s event was also the introduction to the celebration of P&G Philippines’ 70 years of “Touching Lives, Improving Filipino Life”.
The selection process was done through a nomination by the dean of the college, an application to the SEA, taking a problem-solving test, and undergoing several formal interviews with P&G managers.
Lasa, a former Parser managing editor, had previously served in the Engineering Student Council as a CS Representative during AY 2004-2005. He is currently a senior in the BSCS program and is the president of the UP Association of Computer Science Majors (UP CURSOR).
Long live, Carlos Miguel M. Lasa!
Comment by rio — October 6, 2005 @ 3:28 am