THE DEPARTMENT of Science and Technology’s Science Education Institute recently signed a partnership agreement with the Knowledge Channel Foundation Inc. to make the institute’s educational content more accessible to students and teachers.

The SEI made its educational programs adaptable with distance learning initiatives in line with its mandate to promote science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

These initiatives include novel video programs such as RadyoEskwela sa Siyensya and TuklaSiyensya, as well as beloved mainstays such as the Indie Siyensya Filmmaking Competition, the imake.wemake Youth Innovation Prize Award, the #Push4Science Campaign, and the Climate Science Youth Camp.

Through a Memorandum of Agreement, the SEI and KCFI will bring the institute’s programs to a wider audience and leveraging the Knowledge Channel’s on-air and online platforms to reach a wider audience.

The agreement was signed by SEI Director Josette T. Biyo and its chief science research specialist Dr. Ruby R. Cristobal. On the other hand, KCFI was represented by its president and executive director, Elvira Lopez Bautista, and its director of operations, Edric C. Calma.

KCFI is a non-profit organization that develops, acquires, and distributes Department of Education K-12 curriculum-based multimedia learning resources on-air, online, and offline to supplement the effective and relevant delivery of basic education.

It also seeks to improve the engagement and learning of public school children.

The company works towards educating and empowering poor and marginalized children through media, and is well-known for its educational shows such as Sineskwela and Math-Tinik.

Bautista said that the agreement was the latest of many public-private partnerships between the KCFI and the DOST. She noted that the SEI’s mathematics and science courses have reached hundreds of schools nationwide thanks to the Knowledge Channel’s portable media libraries.

“We are thrilled to enter into yet another exciting collaboration. We’ve been on this adventure of introducing our young Filipino children to the world of STEM for many years,” she said.

The SEI said the MOA provides the opportunity to promote STEM education.

“Through this partnership, we will be able to reach new horizons and bring STEM closer to our youth as the DOST-SEI and the Knowledge Channel collaborate to uphold the value of science, technology, and innovation in building up the next generation of Filipino youth,” Biyo said.