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 ChemEng Student Wins Gender Center’s Poster Making Contest

Alexandra Joyce Alvarez, a batch 2008 BS Chemical Engineering student from UPLB, won first prize (P5,000) in this year’s Gender Center poster-making contest last July 30.

She submitted a poster which involved a number of footprints surrounding a red pump shoe and human-like figure. Alexandra mentions that the footprints represent women’s struggle to make a mark in whatever they were doing. The different footprints were representative of the different women in society today. When asked what the red pumps meant she says, ”Parang tiis-ganda. It signifies women who want to stand out kahit mahirap, kahit masakit tsaka favorite color ko kasi ‘yung red pati pangarap kong mag-ka red pumps.” [It’s like a sacrifice for beauty. It signifies women who want to stand out even if it’s difficult and painful. Also, red is my favorite color and it’s my dream to have red pumps]

Alexandra says she and her friend joined to contest because “ trip-trip lang namin. Pang puhunan sana namin sa FRA, hahah.” [it’s just random. We were supposed to use it for a fund raising activity]

            The winners were selected through voting at Gender Center’s facebook page that happened during july 25 - 25. The other winners were:

 Second Prize (P3,000) - Miguel Carlo D. Bathan

Third Prize (P1,500) - Matt Christian Ledesma

Most FB "Likes" (P500) - Nathaniel Jay Abella

            All poster submissions can be seen at Gender Center’s facebook page.

Written by Pamela Barredo