ALS Balanga Festival of Talents 2015

BALANGA CITY, Bataan – The Alternative Learning System (ALS- DepEd) City Schools of Balanga held its 2015 Festival of Talents at the Doña Francisca Barangay Hall, this City last May 25-28 2015, with the theme “Strengthening Teamwork through Sports”.

ALS mobile teachers, together with their District ALS Coordinators (DALSCs) and Education Program Specialist (EPS), gathered the Out-of-School-Youth (OSY) to participate in this event. The purpose of the festival is to shape the OSYs with the spirit of sportsmanship and leadership which is necessary in preparing the OSYs for the challenges of life.

The OSYs who were grouped into 8 teams actively participated in different activities. Games of strength like obstacle race, tug of war, volleyball and basketball, tested their teamwork, leadership and endurance. Lovely muses of the different teams competed for the title, Miss ALS 2015. Skills in writing, drawing and fish deboning were also parts of the event.

ALS invited teachers from formal schools headed by Mr Ariel M. Izon, President of Association of Committed Coaches Enthusiast in School Sports (ACCESS) to act as officiating officials of basketball and volleyball. Judges of other events were Ms. Aida T. Rubiano, the 1Bataan Editor in Chief, Mr. Salvador Isip, the Education Program Supervisor in Science, Dr Romy Bascara, the Education Program Supervisor in TLE, Ms. Corazon Gonzales the Punong Barangay of Doña Francisca, Mr. Michael De Leon and Mr. Armando Zabala, Barangay Kagawads and Mr. Zander D. Jaime and Ms. Liane Rose Salita, ALS graduates.

In any competition, there will always be winners and losers. However, what is beautiful in this festival is that, though not everyone got what they had hoped for and awards were given only to the winners, everybody went home happy with a renewed confidence in themselves. After all, “it’s not all about winning or losing, but more of the self fulfillment that everyone felt, in bringing out their best during the competition”.