Don Bosco Technical Institute, Victorias
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| Motto | Altiora Quaero |
|---|---|
Motto in English | To Seek For Higher Things |
| Type | Private |
| Established | 1951 |
| Founder | Salesians of Don Bosco |
Religious affiliation | Roman Catholic (Salesian) |
Academic affiliations | |
| Rector | Fr. Eligio Santos, SDB |
| Principal | Fr. Rooney John Undar, SDB |
| Students | Approx. 712 |
| Location | , , 10°52′59″N 123°04′07″E / 10.88306°N 123.06870°E |
| Campus | Urban 59,000 m² |
| Colors | Blue and Grey |
| Mascot | Grey Wolf named Grigio |
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Don Bosco Technical Institute, also known as Don Bosco Victorias is a co-educational Catholic high school and grade school in Victorias City, Negros Occidental, Philippines combining college-preparatory academic courses and technical education. Before going on to Grade 9, the student must choose from three technology courses 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.
Don Bosco Technical Institute-Victorias offers extracurricular activities, as well as sports. The sports program includes football, basketball, volleyball, table tennis, badminton, taekwondo and track and field. Extracurricular activities include the student government, the Unifying Circle of Don Bosco (UCDB), the school ministry, the Salesian Youth Movement (SYM), the school paper, the Excelsior and academic clubs. The school also requires the senior students to have their Citizens Advancement Training (CAT). The school is rooted on Catholic values.
The school is located in Victorias City, 34 kilometers 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).
History
Don Bosco Technical Institute-Victorias was founded in 1951 in Victorias City, Negros Occidental. It is the second Salesian educational institution founded in the Philippines. St. John Bosco Academy (Don Bosco Technical Institute, Tarlac) which was established in 1947 in Tarlac, Tarlac was the first to be established, and subsequently followed by other Don Bosco schools in Mandaluyong (1953), Cebu (1954), Makati (1954) and eventually Pampanga (1956).[1]
The school was initially intended to provide technical education for the sons of Victorias Milling Company (VMC) employees. However, as years passed by, the school decided to accept boys outside of VMC.
It was named after 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.
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).
Grade School
There are two sections per grade level in the grade school located in the same building where the offices of the rector, economer and HROD are found.
Sections:
- Grade 1: Vecchi, Vigano
- Grade 2: Clifford, Soberano
- Grade 3: Garelli, Besuco
- Grade 4: Namuncura, Savio
- Grade 5: Kreutzer, Sacchi
- Grade 6: Luzuriaga, Ossorio
High school
There are three sections per year level in the high school located in the same building where the offices of the accountant, faculty, salesian pastoral animators, discipline moderator, assistant principal and principal are found.
Sections:
- Grade 7 Dajao, Ricceri, Ziggiotti
- Grade 8: Buchta, Fels, Ricaldone
- Grade 9: Braga, Monchiero, Guarino
- Grade 10: Albera, Rinaldi, Rua
- Grade 11: Rauh, Schwarz, Zatti, Glowicki
- Grade 12: Faroni, Fontanilla, Occhiena, Gircour, Iriarte, Kowalski,
Administration
- Vice Principal Senior High: Miss Marie Arrianne Diolingo
- Vice Principal Junior High: Mrs. Zinnia E. Libanan
- Vice Principal Elementary: Miss Jocelyn Aposaga
References
- ^ donboscotarlac.com/index.php/history-timeline/. Don Bosco Tarlac. Accessed November 10, 2019,
