The 1st Google Student Leader's Summit PH

At 8:00 in the morning of the 27th of April 2013, I eagerly went up the elevator of the JVC Building in Aguirre street in Makati City. I remember being enthralled by the buttons of the elevator because you see that they were kind of from years back because of their design - white, plastic, and opaque and the whole button lights up when you click them. But when the elevator bell buzzed to signal I was in the 3rd floor (the Orange and Bronze Inc. offices), I immediately snapped out of my enthrallment. As the door opened, the voices of chit chat slowly filled in the elevator. 

As I stepped out, I was greeted by the light gray carpet and fifty (50) student leaders from across the metro talking to one another. Some were seated on the couch, some were on the coffee table chairs, and the others looking out the window. There were some familiar faces from the university where I come from and we said hi. Right after, I saw the other Google Student Ambassadors - Ryan Caro (who spearheaded this event), Kirk Jamison, and Kriztoff Dela Cruz. We were also greeted by our new friends from Orange and Bronze Inc.

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YOU can be a Google Student Ambassador!!

Here's your chance!!

We're excited to announce the opening of applications for the Google Student Ambassador Program!

The GSA Program is available for university students in SEA pursuing a Bachelor's or Master's Degree.

Submit your application here! 

http://goo.gl/GHO2r

Please only submit ONCE.

If you're from the Philippines, you can check out our Google Student Ambassador pages:

Google+

Facebook

You can check out this video from our experience in the Google Student Ambassador Summit to learn more about the program!

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At the same time, it's Google week in DLSU! 

Catch talks from different Googlers flying in from Singapore and from the Philippine office to talk about opportunities at Google, the Google Student Ambassador Program, Google products, and so much more!!

Check out our site for the event: DLSU GOOGLE WEEK SITE

The Launch of Google's Manila Office

The Philippine Google Student Ambassadors
Back (L-R): Kriz Toff, Jyle Sulit, Patric Sugay, JM Basa, Mikee Villegas, Pat Chengliong
Front (L-R): David Ramos,  Kirk Jamison, Mafe Ortego, Queenie Reyes, Johan Aguilar

Wednesday, January 23rd Google officially launches its Manila office.

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Teach Me How to Present

NOTE: Throughout the blog, you will see hot pink and blue text. They are clickable links.

Last November 23, my fellow Google Student Ambassador Pat Chengliong and I gave a talk on Google products students can use when making presentations. We focused on two core products: Google Docs: Presentation and Youtube. We also took the opportunity to talk about the Free and Open Web Campaign.

Instagram photo by Rhozabel Rivadeneira

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Geek Girl Manila Meetup

One of the great things I love about being a Google Student Ambassador is that I'm constantly learning new things in the world of technology. Take the word "developer" for example. In lay mans terms, this can be someone who develops something. In the technological world, this is probably a common word for someone who is making the applications ("apps" as we call it) in the devices we are using.

Last October 2012 (yes, it's been a while), Google had its 1st Geek Girl Manila MeetUp at the Globe Telecom Showroom in Makati. I was a little bit nervous going into the event because I didn't know anyone who was going to be there, with the exception of the some Google people I met in Singapore and g|Philippines.

Once I stepped past the automatic opaque sliding glass doors, the first thing I found was a room filled with tables embellished with sequined cloth of bright azure and hot pink colors, and chairs with big tulle (if I remember right) ribbons. The one thing I definitely didn't miss was all the women in the room. It was 95%

Women of Character

Hello again :) It's been over a month since I've blogged with all the work I've been doing for school. But I'm not gonna let 12.12.12 pass without an entry! (haha parang high school journal entry lang eh)

Anywaaays, I spent this day back at my high school alma matter. Today was the beginning of a series of talks on college and career for the juniors and seniors. Together with Inha Arceo, we talked about our current colleges now - admissions, academics, university culture, college adjustment, and the like. I go to the green school and she goes to the blue school. Oooh! Imagine how fun that was (in a good way of course). It was also great to see Inha again and to see that our dynamic duo was back in action after two years! (She was the President while I was the Vice-President of our student council back in our senior year).

Click "read more" below to see more photos and read more about today's experience!

One Million Lights

Back in high school, my friend named Tricia Peralta told me about this organization she was working on with Mark Lozano. Now, it's this big thing wherein they've helped so many people in our country already. You can read more about them and see what they're doing on their Facebook page

Mark called me one day asking me if I wanted to volunteer as the photobooth photographer in their project before Christmas called Parol for a Cause. After being able to volunteer before in the Philippine Model Congress, I wanted to give it another try and learn. Plus, I really wanted to volunteer by making a parol beforehand, so being able to help in another way was a bonus!

The function room of St. James the Great Parish was slowly being filled by volunteers of many ages but mostly they were the youth. It was great seeing many people my age and even younger coming together towards a cause!

 Christmas music was playing in the background with Taylor Swift songs coming here and there. Also, a band played and their original music was great!

 I also got to use many photography equipment that I didn't get to before such as the lights that point to the backdrop, this thing called the slave light if I got that right, and I learned a few new things about the settings of my camera. One day, when I get really good at it, maybe I'll blog about it. But now, let the professionals and the fanatics do it :)

with Mark Lozano

In this entry were some of the photos I took which were postprocessed by Chris Yuhico. The ones where I'm in, Chris took those.

It was a long day filled with many new experiences! I will definitely want to volunteer with OML again and you should too! :) Let's support this great organization!

You can check out the rest of the photobooth pictures here.