Search for the 2009 Best SP

On Friday, April 17, the College of Science and Mathematics (CSM) of the University of the Philippines Mindanao (UPMin) conducted the "Search for the 2009 Best Thesis in Biology" and the "Search for the 2009 Best Special Problem in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science."
The event started-off with an opening program held at room 227 (AVR) at around 9 AM. The respective judges for each category were introduced. The set of judges for Biology (Bio) was first introduced. All of them were externally-tapped, and I don't know any of them. (Haha! I was late.) Soon after, the set of judges for Applied Mathematics (AMat) and Computer Science (CompSci) were introduced. The panel of judges for AMat were composed Ms. Lyna Mie Daisog, Ms. Mabele Malagamba, and Mr. Joseph Belida. Moreover, the panelist CompSci were Mr. Riannel Tecson, Mr. Vicente Calag, and Mr. Aloysius Torres. After the program, the different courses (categories) were asked to proceed to their respective rooms in order for them to conduct their defense. The Bio remained at room 227, the AMat went to the conference, while the CompSci stayed at the new computer lab. The different courses conducted their respective defense simultaneously in order to maximize the
time. After all the defenses were done, we were supposed to go back to room 227 for the closing program and lunch. Since there is only one Glenn (me) and I don't have the power to divide my self into two, I stuck with the CompSci Best SP defense.
The Bio had 5 Best Thesis finalists, I think. (I was not familiar with their names, sorry.) Anyway, the AMat had 3 Best SP finalists namely Joey Marie Nuñez, Danielle Marie Leonor, and Rommel Real. On the other hand, the CompSci also had 3 Best SP finalists. They were Kevin Bernard San Gaspar, Sedfrey Dickson Atay, and Precita Samonte.
As I mentioned earlier, I only witnessed the defense of the CompSci finalists. The first to present his SP was Sedfrey. His study was about a system created for Barangay Mintal's human resource management. It was a site that is intended to be used by the community's officials in order to manage efficiently barangay records in order to better serve the people. The second presenter was Kevin, who was almost late. Kevin's study came in two parts. The first part was mainly concerned about finding the software combinations that allowed his adviser's original system to work properly in Windows Vista, while the second part was about adding a compiler feature (to handle Java and C codes) to his adviser's original system. The last presenter was Precita (Pchi) whose study was about the modification of the Joomla content management system in order to create a new system for UPMin's Office of Student Affairs (OSA) Student Organizations A.S.
(SOAS). The system would allow the recognized organizations of OSA to create and manage their own websites easily. After the nerve-racking presentation and interrogation, the judges finally consolidated their scores and decided who the winner was. However, the result of the competition will be announced during the CSM Send-off Party on Tuesday (April 21). Hehe... So, we'll have something to look forward to at that event. Who will prevail as the winner of CompSci's Best SP? I already know, but I won't tell. Let's just wait for the right time. (I'll be right here to blog about it later... Haha!)
After the simultaneous presentations of each category, we all went back to the AVR to have our lunch. It was already past 12 noon, and I'm sure that everybody's starving from the tense-filled day.
As we were eating, the lights was suddenly turned-off. Aaaagh! Brown-out again...