What is Unilab Ideas Positive?
Unilab Ideas Positive is a youth-oriented program and idea generating contest in response to the community hygiene and sanitation, nutrition, disease prevention and intervention, and environmental care and protection.
Unilab believes in the youth, their energy, their dedication, their aspirations, their idealism and their strive for a better Philippines. Now on its 2nd year, it aims to promote youth awareness on helping out their chosen communities to find solutions and to empower the youth to make their ideas a reality.
Vote and support the idea and the youth team of your choice and make it a reality for Unilab Positive Ideas. Voting ends Sept. 7, 2011.
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Last year, Team Biggkas of University of Asia and the Pacific (UA&P) bagged the grand prize for its farm-in-the-city concept, teaching hydroponics gardening to mothers in Barangay San Joaquin in Pasig City so they have their own sustainable source of vegetables within the community. Mothers made their first harvest of lettuce and kangkong in April this year. The local government of Pasig City has expressed a desire to replicate the same program in other barangays.
A seed fund of Php100,000 will be awarded to the winning team to implement their social marketing program for their chosen community. Two runner-up groups are given Php75,000 each to do the same for their programs.
This year, 11 teams were selected as semi-finalists out of 56 entries from over 20 schools in NCR, Camanava, and Calabarzon. After which a 3-day workshop is done where they will be exposed to social marketing strategies and case studies to help them develop the social marketing plan for their health and wellness idea. Resource speakers include CNN 2009 Hero of the Year Efren Penaflorida, social marketing guru Dr. Ned Roberto, Gang Badoy of RockEd, Harvey Keh of Pathways to Higher Education, and Shanon Khadka of Gawad Kalinga’s Center for Social Innovation.
Five finalists teams will then be chosen to defend their plans on Sept 18 before a multi-sector panel of judges that will pick the team that wins the seed money from Unilab.
One (1) grand prize team winner and two (2) team runners-up will be chosen as the Ideas Positive 2011 winners. The prizes at stake are as follows:
Grand Prize Winner
- Ideas Positive Trophy for their school
- P100,000 seed money for the implementation of their project
- P50,000 cash prize for the group members
- P10,000 honorarium for the group mentor/faculty coach
Runners Up (2):- Ideas Positive Trophy for their school
- P75,000 seed money for the implementation of their project
- P30,000 cash prize for the group members
- P5,000 honorarium for the group mentor/faculty coach
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