Don Bosco Technical Institute, Victorias
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| Established: | 1951 |
| Type: | Private, Salesian |
| Rector: | Rev. Fr. Norman Broderick "Brodie" T(ugado) Segovia, SDB |
| Location: | Victorias City, Negros Occidental, Philippines |
| Campus: | 40,000 m² |
| Colors: | Blue and White |
| Mascot: | Grigio |
Don Bosco Technical Institute in Victorias City also known as "Don Bosco Victorias" is an all-male high school combining college-preparatory academic courses and technological education . Students select four quarter-long technology courses to take during their junior year and senior year in the high school program to continue with throughout the next two years. Students can graduate in four years with a high school diploma and a certificate indicating the technology course taken. The present rector of the school is Rev. Fr. Norman Broderick "Brodie" T(ugado) Segovia, SDB which is a former student of that school.
Don Bosco-Victorias offers a wide variety of extracurricular activities as well as sports. The sports program includes football, basketball, soccer, baseball, table tennis, and volleyball. Extracurricular activities include art and animation clubs, campus ministry Salesian Youth Movement groups, honor societies, and musical bands. The school, though, is primarily rooted on Catholic values.
The school is located in the Victorias City, 34 kilometres away from the provincial capital of Negros Occidental, Bacolod City. The school is enclosed in grounds of 40,000 square metres near one of the biggest sugar milling companies in the world, Victorias Milling Company (VMC).
[edit] History
The first Salesian educational institution, St. John Bosco Academy, was founded in 1951 in Tarlac, Tarlac. A second institution was established in 1952 at Victorias, Negros Occidental, and was followed by other schools in Mandaluyong in 1953, in Cebu and in Makati in 1954 and eventually Pampanga in 1956.[1]
The school was envisioned to become a technical institution where the Salesian Fathers will head the school to produce future responsible citizens of the Philippines, be it in the Fields of Engineering, Sciences, Arts and also Future Leaders both local and national. Originally the school was intended for a technical education for the sons of the employees of Victorias Milling Company. As years passed by, the growing popularity, quality education and excellence that the institution contributed to the education sector, the school has extended its enrollment and accepted boys from different locations, both local and national.
It was named for the founder of the Salesian Society, Saint John Bosco, who was a 19th century Italian priest who established technical schools to give boys the skills they need to be craftsmen and leaders. His dream was to establish schools to mold young people into faithful Christians and honest citizens.
Just this January 28 to February 1, 2007, Don Bosco Victorias celebrated Don Bosco Day in honor of St. John Bosco, whose feast day is January 31. The theme was "For Life" in response to the Rector Major's 2007 Strenna, "Let us be guided by God's love for life."
Then on February 2 to February 4, 2007, it hosted the Regional Boscolympics, participated by Don Bosco Technical Institute-Victorias, Don Bosco Technology Center (Cebu), St. Louis School-Don Bosco (Dumaguete), and Don Bosco Boy's Home Lilo-an (Cebu).
[edit] Technology programs
- Computer Technology (Computer)
- Electronics (Electronics)
- Mechanical (Mechanical)
[edit] External links
- Salesian Society of Don Bosco
- Don Bosco Technical College
- Don Bosco Victorias Alumni Website (.com)
- Don Bosco Victorias Alumni Website (.org)
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