In its second year of virtual festivities amidst the pandemic, the Sikat Awards 2022 edition championed COC students, faculty members, and alums on Saturday, August 13, which recognized efforts and accolades from all departments and their year-long endeavors in and outside the university.
The awards’ notable Most Active and Outstanding Graduating Students honor were awarded to Mark Anthony Celzo Gelig and Carlo James Reyes from the Department of Broadcast Communication (DBC), Jannelle Molina of the Department of Communication Research (DCR), and Ailla Regina Dela Cruz and John Alfred Esmilla from the Department of Journalism (DOJ).
Besides the MAGS and MOGS awards, SIKAT also acknowledged efforts amidst the pandemic-restricted academic year. 16 students, seven student groups, 12 faculty members, and 10 COC alumni garnered the Pandemic Achiever Award, which COC Dean Hemmady Mora deemed as “people [who] have accomplished things that are beyond what we could expect.”
SIKAT also highlighted academic excellence throughout the awards, presenting 19 Top President’s Listers of the academic year 2021-2022 alongside many other COCians receiving President’s and Dean’s Lister status. In DOJ alone, three BAJ students received the Highest Performing Students In All Year Levels award.
COCians’ creativity and originality were also recognized in the departmental Creative Innovators of the Year award, which includes the DBC’s Photography Festival, Digital Content Production, and The Perfect Pitch: The 100 YBP Edition; the DCR’s Audio Video Technique Festival, Best Policy Research in Communication, and Fundamentals of Research Management; the DOJ’s iCommunicate 2022; and the DAPR’s several artists and visual-based recognition.
Various student and faculty research publications and thesis drew national and international attention with their community-oriented and progressive point-of-views and were given special recognition at the award, receiving Best Thesis Award, Best Institutional Research, Excellence in Research Award, Special Award For International And National Research Presentation of Students and Faculty, and other Research Extension acknowledgments.
It also granted posthumous awards to former College of Languages and Mass Communication Dean Dr. Rustica C. Carpio, and students including Karl Sadullo, Melanie Trinidad, and Jimmy Santiago III.
Other honorable awards at the ceremony include DBC Special Merit Awards For Faculty Retirees, accolades during the USPEAK 2022 MensaHeroes Debate, and Brew-Tiful Conversations: International Coffee Sessions awardees.
Moreover, the COC Divas performed at the ceremony as well as spoken poetry from Kasarianlan’s Renzo Dumaliang entitled ‘Saglit’.
See the SIKAT AWARDS 2022 full replay on the SIKAT AWARDS Facebook page.
Artist: John Lester Limpin
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