WE ARE THE MUNSCI JAILBREAKERS ROBOTICS CLUB. Founded since 2011. We are from Muntinlupa Science High School, a know school to all. The club has __ members, excluding alumni. We compete every year in the contests. We join the Philippine Robotics Olympiad, Tagisang Robotics and FIRST Lego League. We have two coaches: Sir Rico Bantiles and Sir Emmanuel Estrellado (currently in Japan for his scholarship program). Each individual in our team is intellectually advanced, brave, enthusiastic, highly motivated and values-oriented students. Our goal is to stretch our intellectual abilities; show our talent to the community; learn new life-situated problems; help each other learn from mistakes. We move as a big team and we're determined to win the Tagisang Robotics this November. GO MJRC!
Muntinlupa Science HS
The school by the bay
March 30, 2012 was
the last Friday of the school-year 2011-2012. For most of us, it was the day
before that two-month temporary break from high school. For the others, well… it was, quite finally,
the end of their high school lives.
About 5% of the “others” were Jailbreakers. And half of
those Jailbreaker seniors were MunSci Jailbreakers Robotics Club’s pioneer
members. All six of them, along with their 200 batchmates, marched up the
stage, took their diplomas and tossed their caps, signifying the inevitable
truth the whole club has been anticipating months prior to the commencement:
all six of them, leaving MunSci—leaving MunSci Jailbreakers.*
It was quite the bittersweet moment of the year.
There was definitely something beautiful about witnessing
the hard work these guys had gone through—for more than once, seeing their hair
slightly messier than usual; their “haggard” faces and their pimple-studded
foreheads; and their creased eyebrows, shooting up whenever they laughed and
momentarily forgot their seemingly never-ending school-related problems—and watching
from the sidelines as they tossed their caps into the air along with their
youth’s immaturity, along with the problems of daily life in high school. Even
though you’re lowerclassmen, you know that all of these don’t really end. If
anything, their graduation was a beginning of something bigger, something much
more significant than high school in their lives.
And that’s where the ‘bitter’ part of ‘bittersweet’ comes
in.
We aren’t exactly ‘bitter’ about the graduation. We’re
actually really proud of how far our then-seniors have come. We were actually
just as ecstatic as them about the whole event. Who wouldn’t be? Our seniors
were more than just older co-members to us. Our “Kuya”s have substance. They
were more like older non-biological brothers. But we cannot deny the sad center
of the otherwise temporary ‘happily-ever-after.’ We know that Robotics
trainings might never be the same without them.
Nevertheless, here we are, once again bidding you our
temporary goodbyes. There are so many possibilities as to why we feel so
connected to you, and we may never know what it truly is. We learned a lot from
the past year we spent with you, and we wish to learn more. But for now, we
would like to enlist our thank-you’s:
·
Thank you for showing us the ropes and leaving a
great team of capable students. (DAI**: Hehe.)
·
Thank you for being awesome.
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Thank you for being “pogi.”
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Thank you for bearing with our childish
attitudes.
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Thank you for your jokes.
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Thank you for the interesting funfacts.
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Thank you for the best advices ever given on the
surface of the Earth.
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Thank you for listening to us, especially when
no one else was willing to.
·
Thank you for being good role models. (DAI:
Again, hehe.)
This is getting a bit long. Here’s a summary:
·
Thank you for all the laughs, smiles, smirks,
sticking out of tongues, hugs, besos,
head-thumpings, strikes on the nape, pats on the head, occasional ignorance,
wolf-whistles, chants, tickles, scratches, small cuts, lacerations, surgeries
we had to undergo, treats, food, drinks, tricycle/van/jeep rides, talks, jokes,
innuendos, pick-up jokes, photo-bombs, late night drama, all-nighters, eternal
naps, interesting info and big brother wisdom we shared with each other.
Congratulations, Kuya Ian Mauhay,
Kuya Angelo Yago, Kuya Jordan Fernandez, Kuya Paolo de Silos, Kuya Jerome
Purificacion, and Kuya Jan Keith Darunday! MunSci Jailbreakers Robotics
Club is proud of all of you! We know that you will all
do wonderful things and we are so excited to see where the next chapter of your
life takes you. (DAI: This is a challenge.)
And may God bless you on your
journey.
*Correction: ‘Postponing training’, rather than ‘leaving.’ “Nagsimula tayong isang grupo, magtatapos tayong isang grupo.” – Kuya Jerome** DAI—Dakilang Authorial Intrusion
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