We took photos of the awards in the mini-museum at the back of the 2nd floor Science and Humanities Building. We then proceeded to make a database in Google Sheets containing all their details.

Before implementing the project, we first consulted with the Social Science 6 teachers to teach us basic history writing skills. We started the project on May 2, 2023 by taking photos and then making the spreadsheet catalog until May 11, 2023

The project will benefit the community should its staff decide to throw away the old awards. It will also serve as a testament to its competitiveness not just in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), but also in the humanities and social sciences (HUMSS). Should we be given a chance to continue this project, we recommend an in-person implementation in order to clearly capture the remaining awards’ details.

To continue this project, the catalog will be passed on to school officials. Pisay will receive more trophies in the coming years as they attend more events. In order to preserve the next upcoming trophies, the school officials will be given access to editing the catalog so that they can add the new trophies to the catalog.

The project forced us to recall how to look for primary sources in writing history, a skill taught in Social Science 1. As we immersed ourselves in historiography, we learned that writing history is not easy because some primary sources are so outdated that their details are not clear anymore.

Furthermore, we recalled basic computer skills as taught in Computer Science 1, in the form of creating a catalog in spreadsheets like Google Sheets and Microsoft Excel. As we move into the Fourth Industrial Revolution, IT skills are becoming more in-demand.

Within the photo taking procedure, there are some details that are hard to decipher due to bad camera focus and unfavorable lighting. Some reflections in the gold-plates where there’s text ingrained in them made it hard to read, and there are even some of the text that are impossible to reach up close.

The recommendations for the next implementation of the project are to keep a notebook at all times to list down all of the details, while also keeping a reference image as to where the details are linked to. This is so that we do not have to continuously go back and forth to the trophy storage room to get clearer details and not ruin the accuracy of the details analyzed.

There are two more recommendations to make. The catalog should also include a list of winners, specifically individual people. This is so that anyone can know whose trophy or award belongs to and what each winner’s feats are.

A Physical Organization of the Museum is another recommendation. Instead of only just keeping the online catalog, there should be an area in school where all of the trophies can be put up to display and where everyone can check for all the awards. Not only that, but not everyone is used to looking for online resources.