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A Century Year Remembrance

Facade of West Visayas State University's Quezon Hall- The oldest building of the university

Trying out Light Painting


Garin Farm Adventures

Delight your senses in GarinFarm – an exciting multifaceted 14-hectare inland resort in San Joaquin, Iloilo, Philippines. GarinFarm is a delightful blending of leisure, pilgrimage, and agriculture that gives you an incomparable vacation.  In the versatile inland resort, you can find superb amenities — impeccably designed and landscaped glass-walled rooms with a breathtaking view of the ocean or the mountains, a wide swimming pool for adults and children, a 5,000 sq. meter man-made lagoon for boat rides, fishing and kayaking, and a route for horseback riding and trekking, among many others.

Iloilo City Promotional Video Contest winners 2012


The Iloilo City Tourism Council held a video competition last January- March 2012
in promotion for the Iloilo City Tourism.

Here is the entry who won 1st place on the 3 minute category.




and here are the other best videos who also won  on the said competition


for the 30 second category







for the 3 minute category



for the 5 minute category









The X Factor Philippines - Iloilo Auditions


The last day of the X Factor Philippines has ended. The last screening in Iloilo was held yesterday at the Gaisano Capitol.



A lot of Ilonggo talents auditioned on  the screening which took the screening committee to extend til midnight on the ABS-CBN Iloilo because of the time limit held by the Gaisano Management.


 

Earth Hour 60+


Earth Hout 60+ at SM City Iloilo

Earth Hour 60+ Sm City Iloilo

SM City Iloilo Celebrates Earth Hour 2012

Banana and Papaya Fruit Peelings Extract as an Alternative Culture Medium for Fungi



ENTRY NO. 1 WVSU ILS SCIENCE CONGRESS


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ABSTRACT

     Banana, mango and papaya are one of the top export fruits of the country. With the enormous amount of these fruits produced and consumed annually, huge amount of their fruit peels are thrown away as well. Since these fruit peels comprise about one-third of the fruits, alternative ways to maximize their potential must be sought.
     This group aimed to test the feasibility of extract from banana and papaya fruit peelings as an alternative culture media for fungi. Fungal growth on the experimental culture media prepared was tested against Potato Dextrose Agar (PDA.
     Qualitative analysis of the fungi’s growth was noted down one week after inoculation.
Two hundred grams of chopped fruit peels were boiled for thirty minutes with five hundred mL of distilled water. The extract was strained using cheesecloth then the amount gathered was measured. One clear gulaman bar was added to every five hundred mL extract and the mixture was boiled again for thirty minutes. The mixture was strained again before one hundred fifty mL was dispensed into each lapad bottle. PDA and CWA were also prepared as these served as the study’s control set-ups. Three replicates per treatment were prepared. All bottles were autoclaved for one hour then slanted.
     The results were left for one week for experiment purposes. The control set up started to react with our experiment.

Safety Evaluations on Tawa-tawa (Euphorbia hirta) decoction utilizing the Sensitive Allium Test


Abstract


This Science Investigative Project is knowing the safety and efficiency of the Tawa-tawa. We used the Sensitive Allium Test on the onion bulbs seated atop a Gerber bottle containing a Tawa-tawa decoction with water. The growth of roots from the onion bulb showed that the solution was not toxic whatsoever. 


The Study aims to:
To determine the different phytochemical constituents of tawa-tawa (Euphorbia hirta) decoction.
To determine the cytotoxic effect of tawa-tawa decoction at (1) 100%, (2) 10%, (3) 25% and (4) 50% concentrations utilizing Alllium test
To determine the phytochemical constituents that produced cytotoxic effect.






Hypothesis
It was Hypothesized that there is no significant difference in the ctotoxic activity of (1) 100%,(2) 10%, (3) 25% and (4) 50% concentrations of tawa-tawa decoctions.