From 77 nominees that gained the most votes in an early round of polling, it is now down to only 28 finalists. The competition is now on the  final phase of the global poll to choose the “New 7 Wonders of Nature.”

Among the 28 finalists is our very own Subterranean River National Park in the province of Palawan. Also included in the list are the Grand Canyon, the Great Barrier Reef, the Amazon rain forest, the Dead Sea, Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa, Ecuador’s Galapagos islands, Azerbaijan’s Mud Volcanoes, Lebanon’s Jeita Grotto, Ireland’s Moher Cliffs and Germany’s Black Forest.

The Puerto Princesa Subterranean River National Park is located about 50 kilometers north of the city of Puerto Princesa, Palawan. The park has a limestone karst mountain landscape with an 8.2 kilometer navigable underground river. It also has major formations of stalactites and stalagmites, and several large chambers.

Please vote for the Philippine’s bet in the New 7 Wonders of Nature Poll. You can vote by Internet or phone. The winners will be announced in 2011.

The seven man-made wonders in 2007 were the Colosseum, Italy; the Great Wall of China; the Taj Mahal, India; Petra, Jordan; Christ the Redeemer Statue, Brazil; Machu Picchu, Peru; and the Pyramid at Chichen Itza, Mexico.

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All the best for the four Filipino highschool students who will be competing in the 50th International Mathematical Olympiad, a world championship mathematics competition for highschool students.

Carlo Francisco Adajar of Paref Southridge School, Earl John Chua of Grace Christian College, Carmela Antoinette Lao of Saint Jude Catholic School, and Jonathan Wong of Grace Christian College will be flying to Bremen, Germany to compete in the IMO 2009. The Math Olympiad will be held from July 10 to 22, 2009.

After a careful selection process from thousands of highschool students in the country, these four highschool students were selected to represent our country in this Olympiad which is a joint project of the Department of Science and Technology – Science Education Institute and the Mathematical Society of the Philippines.

Let us bring home the bacon guys!

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Four Filipino students won at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (Intel ISEF) held from May 10 to May 16. The Intel ISEF is one of the largest pre-college science and technology research competitions in the world.

The four Filipino students were Angeli Joyce Yap-Dy, 14, of Capiz National High School; Jovani Tomale, 16, of Davao City National High School; and the team of Kevin Jer David, 16, and Orven Jules Dumaoang, 16, of the Philippine Science High School-Diliman Campus.

Angeli Joyce Yap-Dy took home $1,000 as cash prize after receiving a 2nd Special Award from the American Association for Clinical Chemistry for her research on the properties of milkfish bile as a potential anti-cancer drug.

Jovani Tomale took home $500 after receiving a 2nd Special Award from the American Statistical Association for developing a mathematical algorithm that would determine the gender of the Philippine Eagle.

The team of David and Dumaoang received a Grand Award in the Plant Sciences category, plus a cash prize of $500 with their study on the communication process of disease-causing bacteria and how this can be disrupted so that the organisms become less resistant to antibiotics, thereby causing less ailments.

The Intel ISEF is the world’s only science project competition for students in the ninth to 12th grades that is meant to advance quality science education around the world. The event attracted 1,563 young scientists from 56 countries.

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The Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) recently honored 4 outstanding Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW) for 2009.

Leading the list is half-paralyzed Eliza Bataanon who first went abroad on February 26, 1986 to work as a domestic helper in London. After nine months in London, her husband died and their house in Pandacan, Manila that she had just renovated burned down, forcing her to return to the Philippines.

She then sought employment in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia afterwards but later went back home to Philippines when she could not bear with the workload and hard life anymore.

She was half-paralyzed in 2006 after suffering from a stroke and had to rely on his second son, who is working as a pedicab driver, for her medications and education of her youngest son.

OWWA hailed her as the outstanding financially and physically challenged OFW during the celebration of the 14th Migrant Worker’s Day last June 7.

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Ricardo Amador traveled all over the world during his 36 years as a migrant worker and he was cited as the longest serving OFW at 59 years old.

He has worked in Vietnam, Singapore, Brunei, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, India, Saudi Arabia, and Oman as a welder, a supervisor, and filing clerk, among others.

He retired in 1998 and went back to Valenzuela City.

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Lolito Lascuña who has been away from his loved ones for 25 years was hailed as the outstanding sea-based OFW. His earnings abroad enabled him to put up a showroom, several apartments, and an air-conditioning business in Marikina.

He was recently promoted as a chief engineer and has no plans of retiring yet.

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49-year-old Francisco Aguilar Jr. who has been in Riyadh for 13 years in engineering works was cited as the outstanding land-based OFW. He spent half his life in Saudi Arabia working at the King Abdul Aziz Military Academy and the other half at the National Industrialization Company.

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Each honoree were awarded with a plaque and P10,000 worth of G-cash, a card-less method of money transfer with just a text message offered by Globe Telecommunications.

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