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Nurturing Young Scientists through Immersive Learning

The Philippine Science High School (PSHS) Science Immersion Program (SIP) bridges the gap between classroom learning and authentic scientific inquiry by embedding senior high school students in higher education institutions, national laboratories, and research centers. Through this initiative, young scholars experience firsthand how ideas evolve into tangible outcomes—scientific discoveries, engineering prototypes, and data-driven services that advance national development.

Since 2022, Jaderick has served as a mentor under the SIP of PSHS–Calabarzon Region Campus, welcoming two student interns each year to UPLB. Under his guidance, students undertake research, innovation, and system development activities that align with ongoing institutional projects in computational intelligence, environmental modeling, and agricultural informatics. These immersions are designed to cultivate critical thinking, scientific discipline, and a sense of contribution to real-world problem-solving.

Learning by Doing, Discovering by Thinking

Each immersion cycle brings together promising young scholars eager to experience how computation becomes a lens for understanding human, social, and infrastructural systems. Under Jaderick's mentorship, students from the PSHS Calabarzon Region Campus engage in projects that blend data analysis, mathematical modeling, and simulation—tools by which complexity in the real world is examined and made intelligible.

Their work ranges from exploring how opinions spread and networks evolve, to modeling pursuit and evasion, urban mobility, and collective behavior. Through these studies, the students learn to view societies, cities, and digital spaces as dynamic systems governed by interactions, constraints, and emergent patterns. Each project thus reflects both intellectual rigor and civic imagination—a glimpse of how computational thinking can illuminate the structures that connect people, places, and decisions.

SIP 2022

MORIN, Eliana Katarina B. (Iana, Grade 10) & PAGSINOHIN, Pierre Alexis M. (Axel, Grade 12)
Replicating Milgram's Small World Experiment through the Social Media

Iana and Axel digitally recreated Milgram’s landmark experiment using online communication networks to analyze connectivity and path length across social media users. They submitted data-driven report and network visualization demonstrating small-world phenomena in virtual settings.

SIP 2023

BELLA, Engelika Joyce L. (Gel, Grade 10) & GENEROSO, Janina Antonette G. (Janina, Grade 10)
Multi-agent and Mathematical Modeling of of the 2D Continuous Pursuer-Evader Problem for Simple Evasive Maneuvers

In this research, Gel and Janina collaboratively conducted analytical exploration of pursuit–evasion dynamics using differential equations and computational visualization of trajectories in two-dimensional space. Students submitted simulation scripts using a multi-agent simulation platform (Netlogo) and a technical poster that was presented during the SIP student symposium.

SIP 2024

FLOIRENDO, John Ivan B. (Ivan, Grade 10)
Effects of Internal Critical Road Segment Failures Towards the Accessibility of Safe Spaces in Santo Rosa, Laguna
URREA, Gillienne Nicole C. (Gill, Grade 10)
Centrality Analyses of the Lipa City Road Network

These are two separate yet parallel network-theoretic studies on the resilience of urban road systems under simulated failures (Ivan's work), and the identification of critical nodes influencing mobility and accessibility (Gill's work). Comparative network metrics and maps were created through the students' Python codes, and poster papers exhibited during the SIP student symposium.

SIP 2025

INOCENCIO, Ethan Zeki T. (Zeki, Grade 10)
Modeling Opinion Spread and Media Influence Using Agent-based Simulation
PILI, Princess Apryl T. (Princess, Grade 12)
The Tipping Point: An Agent-based Model of Migration Intent

These two separate studies are agent-based modeling of social phenomena—how opinions form, polarize, and shift under varying media influences (Zeki's work) and socioeconomic factors driving migration intent (Princess' work). Students submitted parameterized simulation environments and analytical reports through respective research posters highlighting emergent behavioral patterns.

Foundations of a Mentorship Journey

Beyond the formal engagements under the Philippine Science High School Science Immersion Program, Jaderick has also supervised independent high school researchers who sought mentorship in computational approaches to real-world problems.

BAUSON, Alhiena Mae & VIVAS, Kathleen Nicole M. (Grade 12)
Lipa City Science Integrated National High School, Lipa City, Batangas
June-September 2017
Identifying the Variety of Roasted Coffee Beans through Sound Analysis

Their work focused on the intriguing possibility that audio signatures—captured during bean impact with a beaker—may contain distinguishable acoustic patterns linked to specific coffee varieties. Through iterative recording, spectral analysis, and preliminary feature extraction, the students investigated whether signal characteristics such as frequency peaks, temporal envelopes, and harmonic textures could serve as markers for differentiating beans.

This project introduced them to fundamental concepts in digital signal processing and pattern recognition, demonstrating how everyday materials—in this case, roasted coffee—can reveal scientifically meaningful behavior when examined through computational and analytical tools. Their result was presented in 2018 national scientific conference of Biology Teachers Association of the Philippines (BIOTA):

J.P. Pabico, K.N.M. Vivas and A.M. Bauson. 2018. The acoustic properties of roasted coffee beans can determine the beans' variety. 53rd BIOTA Annual National Convention and Scientific Sessions (BIOTA 2018), University of San Agustin, Iloilo City, Iloilo, 5-7 April 2018.

Continuing the Chain of Discovery

The Science Immersion Program is not merely a training ground for research—it is an invitation for young minds to join the continuum of discovery. The doors of the laboratory remain open to aspiring PSHS scholars who wish to explore how computation, data, and creativity converge to solve meaningful problems in science and society.

Future participants are encouraged to connect through the University of the Philippines Los Baños – Institute of Computer Science, where mentorship opportunities are continually extended to nurture the country’s next generation of scientists and innovators.

Guiding young scientists as they take their first steps into the world of research and innovation.

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