DOST Extends National Biotech Week Logo Design Contest

The Department of Science and Technology will accept entries for the National Biotech Week (NBW) Logo Design Contest until the end of August.

The winning entry will be rewarded with a Php 50,000 cash prize and a plaque of recognition.

The NBW Logo Design Contest is open to Filipino citizens, individuals and groups except for members of the 2009 NBW Task Force, the screening committee and the board of judges.

Logo designs must symbolize the application and benefits of biotechnology as well as reflect this year's NBW theme: "Bioteknolohiya para sa Kalikasan, Kalusugan, Kagandahan, Kabuhayan at Kaunlaran" (Biotechnology for the Environment, Health, Beauty, Livelihood and Development) .

Each entry must be original, in JPEG format, 5.5 x 5.5 inches in size and never been entered in any competition.

Logo designs must be accompanied with written descriptions of not more than 350 words.

All entries must be e-mailed to nbw@pnri.dost. gov.ph together with the contestants' names, mailing addresses, contact details and scanned ID cards with photographs on or before August 31, 2009 at 5 pm.

For more information, call Mr. Chitho Feliciano of the Philippine Nuclear Research Institute at 925-9211 or 929-6011 local 273.