THE Department of Science and Technology’s “science library in a box” got its 1000th site with the installation of four units at the Dayap National High School in Brgy. Dayap, Calauan, Laguna.
Currently, Starbooks has deployed more than 1,123 units in several barangays and municipalities in the country.
Accessible on-site even without internet connection, Starbooks provides students, researchers, and S&T aficionados with thousands of free S&T related materials in text, audio, and video formats.
Among these are K-12 interactive courseware on math and science developed by DoST’s Science Education Institute, livelihood videos dubbed as “TamangDoSTkarte” which provides parents and entrepreneurial students a thing or two about various livelihood opportunities within their sphere of interest, and other videos.