Senior High School
Program Description
The Asia Pacific College Strengthened Senior High School Program not only aims at graduating the students but also at helping them start their careers. Based on the school’s long history of bridging the academe and industry, students are regarded as Professionals-in-Training from their first day of Grade 11.
The courses revolve around the APC RAM Model or (Real-world, Applied, Mastery), which is a complete rethinking of the senior high school education that aims at a career-first learning approach instead of rote learning. Students select from six Academic Pathways aligned with APC collegiate decision-making processes, each structured to reflect institutional priorities and programmatic outcomes. From the pathway selection to a student’s formal intake interview until the production of authentic outputs, every aspect of the curriculum is meant to help students build a tangible, industry-ready professional identity.
The program uses the “5+1” academic schedule: five terms of foundational studies in Grade 11 and Grade 12 and then one term being dedicated to intensive application of learning. Throughout the program, students are evaluated based on the nine APC Graduate Attributes, the same attributes that characterize APC’s college graduates. This ensures a smooth and efficient transition into higher education, employment, or entrepreneurship.
Graduates of the APC SHS program will have an OpenLearning portfolio capturing their learning experiences, a profile on LinkedIn establishing their professional identity and industry micro-credentials earned in various subjects, along with their Signature Work, an authentic evidence of their learning. These will have demonstrated the student’s competencies along with documented evidence of their learning that strengthens their future professional advancement.
Indeed, APC continues to be the emblem of real projects where real learnings happen.
Academic Pathways:
Those students who opted to enroll in the APC Strengthened SHS Program are required to choose one out of the six Academic Pathways during the intake procedure in Grade 11, Term 1. Each pathway aims at supporting APC’s college courses and industry partnerships, thus creating a meaningful and well-defined link from senior high school to college and one’s professional career.
Student Projects
The School of Computing and Information Technologies sponsors the Grade 12 IT Innovation Bootcamp for 3rd Term SY2020-2021. This bootcamp requires the students to develop systems in a role-based, interdisciplinary, and agile scrum approach, mentored by Accenture in weekly meetings. As the students prepare to build the system, they attend various masters classes that teach them the agile framework, python programming, software testing and, presentation and pitching skills. The students also are given an opportunity to earn badges. To date, there were a great number of these students who already earned the globally recognized Scrum Foundation Professional Certificate (SFPC).
Below are some of the student projects presented last 3rd Term, 2020 – 2021:
MediTect is a website that lets users search the most equipped clinic, health center, and hospital in the nearest location possible. This was a proposed solution for the team’s clients Sgt. Ma. Jelu B. Bundal and Nurse Melvie B. Urbanozo, who claim to have difficulties with: (1) knowing the availability on doctors and services since this information are hard to find or unavailable on their platforms at a given time; (2) finding the closest hospital from a given location; (3) lack of information as which healthcare facility has the proper equipment and/or facilities to treat a patient; and (4) a background of the healthcare facility. To solve this problem, the team offered a solution which allows users to know information about the facility’s contact information, address, availability, and provided services.
Team Members
Guen Joy Alimodian
Daniel Andrey Angat
Ma. Gracia Kim Brela
Jonathan Angelo Bueno
Ma. Regina Sencisco
Keisha Maury Viadoy
Mobile phones are very common recently that it has become a necessity for the part of the population who owns them. According to Elliot (2020), mobile games have been a common trend to all ages alike, as a 74% of the Philippines’ online population plays mobile games.
Traumatic events can be a typical part of a child’s life. With this in mind, there can be mobile games that can enable the gamers to understand trauma and help victims cope with these traumatic experiences.
Steam is one of the biggest game engines in the market. For the years 2015, 2016 and 2017 there are 450, 685, 1107 new indie games released respectively. As of May 2021, there are 56,363 indie games worldwide. Indie Festa, an online convention for indie games, was held from November 9-15, 2020, had only 32 Filipino indie games in its roster. With most of the topics revolving around Philippine mythology, culture, or just plain for fun, there is a lacking amount of games that goes into a more serious social issues that this country faces.
Gatilyo is a 2D platform game that aims to spread awareness and help sexual abuse victims cope up with their trauma through smooth gameplay and enjoyable mechanics. After playing the game, gamers can learn about trauma and potentially help those who experienced trauma to cope. While victims can also find this game helpful in coping, generally, it can offer gamers the knowledge about the meaning and weight of trauma through environmental storytelling and implementation of smooth gameplay and colorful visuals.
Team Members
Humbert Edgar Chavez
Vieron Jhomel Garcia
Lerdel Yuri Laigo
Julia Claire Mancao
Kevin Michael Pajarillo
As looking for related literature is an essential part when conducting research, several students from social media are addressing their problems on their research writing experience as local literature is limited. This was supported by a journal article by Navarro & McKinnon (2019) stating that research is dominated by western countries and findings from international studies could not be generalizable to developing countries such as the Philippines.
This research portal is intended Filipino student researchers. Specifically, this aims to:
● Help researchers easily access local literatures
● Allow local researchers to upload and publish their research studies
The website is limited to local literature and studies in the Philippines. It provides a system focused on guiding Filipino Senior High School and College Researchers, ages 16 and above to acquire and share researches using the platform.
Team Leader, Developer
Fidelino, Akira
Developers
Julia Melle Pascua
Rosalio Marco Angelo Pompa
Cheyenne Valdez
Gabrielle Ann Yogawin
SoCIT Faculty Adviser
Dr. Manuel Calimlim, Jr.
Accenture Adviser
Ms. Thermina Ann Akram
The concept of EASETHETIKS revolves around the goal of recognizing visual artists and giving an opportunity to generate income through commissions without going through the trouble of compromising themselves in order to attract commissioners and clients. Simply put, Easethetiks is a commissioning website wherein artists can be hired and compensated accordingly for certain projects.
Specifics:
• A platform specifically for visual artists
• Allows artists to publish their artwork for their portfolio to be viewed by possible clients
• Highlight artists’ creativity
• Connect with potential clients
• Open opportunities for artists
Team Members
Reginald Velayo
Gianna Cristina Reyes
Rodlyn Erica Rianzares
Johanne Marlowe Sanchez
Alelie Yvonne Tayco
Bootcamp Adviser
Dr. Manuel Calimlim
Project Mentor
Naomi M. Canseco
