2010 Mindanao Invention Contest on July 22-25 in Davao City!

The Department of Science and Technology No. 11 (DOST 11) will host the Mindanao Invention Contest and Expo (MICE) 2010 on July 22-25 at the ground floor activity area of NCCC Mall. MICE 2010 is hosted in cooperation with the Technology Application and Promotion Institute (TAPI-DOST).

DOST is inviting local inventors, manufacturers, designers, creative researchers, and students (both tertiary and secondary levels) to participate in the 2010 Mindanao Invention Contest. This year’s theme is “Filipino Invention and Innovation: The Way Forward.”

Local inventors, researchers, and students are eligible to join in any of the six contest categories of the invention contest:

1. invention category (Tuklas Award);


2. utility model category;


3. industrial design category;


4. creative research category (Likha Award);


5. student creative research category (Sibol Award) for High School and


6. student creative research category (Sibol Award) for college.

Sibol Award is open to high school and college students. Entries should be endorsed by the school where the creative research was done.  The endorser can either be the principal, the school head, the dean of the college or the president of the school, said DOST 11 regional director Anthony Sales.

Ten thousand pesos cash prize awaits the winners in each category. First prize winners in the previous regional/national invention contests, except for special prizes not covered by the rules and criteria, shall no longer be eligible to join in the subsequent national/regional cluster invention contests.  However, those entries that have won under the creative research category may join the contest, provided that such entries are now patented/registered at the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPO).

Entries in the invention, utility model and industrial design categories must already have patent, utility model registration and industrial registration, respectively, on or before the deadline for the submission of entries. Deadline of submission of entries is on or before July 16.

Interested individuals may call the MICE 2010 secretariat at 221-5428 for details. Entry forms may be downloaded at http://region11.dost.gov.ph.