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Highlights from the 2021 Latinx Children's Literature Conference By Gnesis Villar | Mar 11, 2021 On March 6, the Center for Children’s Literature at Bank Street College of Education in New York City hosted a virtual mini-conference on Latinx children’s literature. The conference’s third edition focused on Mexican American themes and featured David Bowles as the keynote speaker, who is the recipient of the Bank Street Children’s Book Committee’s 2019 Claudia Lewis Award for Poetry for They Call Me Güero and two Pura Belpré Honors. ‘Whole Neighborhoods Insi...

Hanafuda Hanafuda (Japanese Card Game) Hanafuda or Hanakaruta ("karuta", from the Portuguese word "carta") is a gamblingcard game. It is also called "Sakura" or "Cherry Blossom". Hanafuda was out-lawed in the Edo Era and was recovered in the Meiji Era. It is played with a 48 card deck, divided into twelve card suits corresponding to the twelve months of the year. Each suit is shown by a different flower or plant. Each flower is representative of a calendar month around the time it comes into bloom and depict the yearly cycle using Japanese imagery. The ume, or plum, is the first fruit tree to...

Published February 25, 2021, 8:09 PM The PH started its space technology development program only in 2014. •       The Philippine Scientific Earth Observation Microsatellite program is the country’s first initiative in developing its capacity in space science and technology. •       During its four-year program life, it successfully launched two microsatellites: Diwata-1 and Diwata-2; and a nanosatellite, Maya-1.  •       Succeeding microsatellites Diwata-3 and Diwata-4 and nanosatellites “are now in various stages of development, and which will be built substantially i...

The second Philippine cube satellite (CubeSat) was finally launched into space last Sunday. While Filipino science enthusiasts cheered for the historic moment, some social media users downplayed this feat and poked fun at the cube-sized satellite instead. The second Maya Called Maya-2, the country’s second 1U CubeSat boarded the S.S. Katherine Johnson Cynus spacecraft which then sent it into the International Space Station at 1:36 a.m. last Sunday. Maya-2 was joined by other 1U-sized cube satellites from Japan (Tsuru) and   The Department of Science and Technology’s Space Technology...

The Philippines’ second Maya Cube Satellite (CubeSat) developed by Filipino scholars under the 4th Joint Global Multi-Nation Birds Satellite project (BIRDS-4 Satellite Project) has been launched to the International Space Station (ISS).