Project Rain Gauge was formally launched last August 2011. It was a joint project of Smart Communication, Inc.(SMART) and Manila Observatory's KLIMA (Climate Change Center) in cooperation of the Philippine Atmospheric and Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration or also known as PAGASA and specially the Department of Education.
Project Rain Gauge initiate and aims to develop the awareness of students about the importance of rainfall monitoring and the implication of the amount of rainfall on various environmental problems such as erosion, landslides and typhoons. The general goal of the said project is to create a network of schools that monitors and record the amount of rainfall observation regularly, and be able to provide their local community and their campus a supplementary data on rainfall measurement.It also assists in disaster preparedness by providing a community-based early warning system for possible disasters like flash floods and landslides. And now from a starting group of 17, there are now 50 partner schools participating on Rainfall Monitoring like us, here in San Miguel National High School,we actively participates on all PRG activities. Our school was the very first school to have a Digital Rain Gauge, it was installed by the Smart Communication, Inc.(SMART) to complement the existing Manual Rain Gauge.
Now, it was our second year of participating on all PRG activities. In the previous Rain Watchers Award which was conducted last year, our school won the 2nd place and as a continuation of this endeavor we, the new members of the PRG team 2011 commit ourselves to continue and improve the practices which was started by the previous team. We also want to learn while enjoying and lastly we will also give our very best on this project to be an efficient and conscientious rain watcher.
As a response to be a diligent steward of the environment and as a rain watcher, we launched a project entitled "Lets collect PET". This project aims to collect Polyethylene terephthalate bottles which prevents drainages from clogging. The said project was first started in our section and it was successful and resulted to many positive outcomes like gaining extra income out of trash. The said project was also introduced to other sections and year levels.
Our Another School's Best practice was a blog full of experiences in our daily Living in such a way we help protect our nature in our own simple ways it is called The Low Carbon Diet journal or also known as LCD journal wherein students post their LCD for the week. The said blog was a collection of the collaborative effort of the group. They were asked to put pictures related to their Diet for the week. In this way, we can educate other students to be an active stewards of the environment at the same time they can also exploring and gaining knowledge in the Cyber world. This practice was applied to Sophomores Science Class students. ( different Blogs can be seen in our links)
