The Los Baños Science Community Foundation, Inc. (LBSCFI) recently conducted an event management training at the SEARCA Auditorium, College, Laguna.
The training, the first in the Foundation’s 30-year history, aimed to provide participants an overview of event concepts, principles, and trends; discuss etiquette and ethics of a professional event manager; and upgrade the skills of the participants in planning and designing of their respective “Syensaya” events.
Syensaya is LBSCFI’s yearly celebration of the National Science and Technology Week.
Thirty-seven representatives from the Foundation’s 23 member-agencies participated in the training.
Cynthia Reantaso-Bernabe, program director of the Professional Event Management Diploma Program of the School of Professionals and Continuing Education of the De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde, lectured on the activities covered in and stages and processes of event management. She also tackled strategic planning, coordination, evaluation, and the issues in event management.
Bernabe is the first international graduate of the award-winning Event Leadership Executive Program of Temple University School of Tourism and Hospitality Management in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where she was awarded a Certificate of Excellence.
Bernabe also lectures at Development Center for Asia Africa Pacific in the University of the Philippines Diliman and is a former instructor at the Miriam College and Enderun College. She is also the founder and manager of Wishworks Event Management, a private company engaged in mounting corporate and social life cycle events for more than 20 years.
LBSCFI is one of four science communities established by the Department of Science and Technology in accordance with Presidential Executive Order No. 784 in 1984. Its membership comprise of Los Baños-based member agencies engaged in R&D, S&T, the arts, business, and social services committed to the development of a more dynamic S&T environment in and outside the community.