StackTrek to Hold Coding eSports Competition this August

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It is without any doubt that majority of our workforce are not euipped with the fitting skills and talent to their chosen careers. A great number fall to call center or BPO employment since it is the primary leading work opportunity, while a few would work overseas to get more financially-motivating opportunities.

It is noble for companies like StackTrek that aims to attract employers towards our country by either giving potentially promising coders or developers the proper skills to enhance their capabilities competitive enough to the global standards through their StackEd and StackLab. StackED is providing tech platform for education, bias-free skills assessment, and talent improvement to universities and schools. StackLab is providing a space for the best tech talent to be hired by global tech companies.

and to look for already capables through their StackLeague. StackLeague is the first, free, and largest coding Esports competition to be held on August 3-4, 2019 at the StackLeague Arena Tektite (former Philippine Stock Exchange, Trading Floor in Ortigas).  It aims to create and provide equal opportunities for developers to showcase their skills.

With the objective of changing the education to employment landscape, StackTrek aims to transform a nation’s education and economic future. True enough, I believe in this principle since making the people more capable would attract more employers to look into the Philippines, not only Metro Manila, but even looking into the workforce based in the provinces that benefitted from the learning opportunities given by StackTrek.

The analytics than can be derived could help employers identify their needs. It would be a valuable tool to address employment requirements that would greatly benefit companies.

To learn more, please watch the videos of our interview and discussion during the presentation and Q&A at the media launch held a few days ago at the Trader's Lounge at Tektite Building

Florian Groebel, General Manager, and Nigel Villanueva, League Director,  John Gonzales, Business Development Officer, and Bill Yuen, CEO and Founder of StackTrek, all provided significant information to us during the event.

Similar to what they did in Iloilo, StackTrek will soon hold a Coding eSports competition on August 3 & 4 at the former Trading Hall of Tektite, and hopefully to create an equally successful output.

Below are the official press releases from the media launch:

StackTrek: Bringing Equality in Programming Education and Employment

The Philippines is the world’s number two IT outsourcing destination, yet a majority of programming students are not “hireable” in tech jobs. Serial entrepreneur Billy Yuen saw this gap and formulated a solution: a way to bring equal opportunities in tech education and employment, and a bridge for Filipinos from poverty to middle-class jobs.

StackTrek is a venture-backed global people analytics company, with offices in Hong Kong and APAC headquarters in the Philippines. The company boasts of deep expertise and propriety technologies in assessing, analyzing, and improving programmer capability – enabling the Filipino graduate to be competitive in the 4th industrial revolution.

StackTrek has an ambitious agenda: that every student should graduate armed with career-ready IT knowledge. After all, no other subject can open doors in the 21st century like programming.The company has plans touching on tech education, economic development, equality, and inclusiveness. Currently, StackTrek is working with the government to bring universal programming education to the entire nation.

StackTrek, a People Analytics Company, is umbrella to three brands:

StackED is providing tech platform for education, bias-free skills assessment, and talent improvement to universities and schools.

StackLab is providing a space for the best tech talent to be hired by global tech companies.

Putting employment at its center by bringing these companies to the employees.

StackLeague is the first, free, and largest coding Esports competition to be held on August 3-4, 2019 at the StackLeague Arena Tektite (former Philippine Stock Exchange, Trading Floor in Ortigas).  It aims to create and provide equal opportunities for developers to showcase their skills. In this competition, there is no such thing as race, gender and social background – only developers.  StackLeague is pure skills. No Gender. No Race. Only Talent.  Interested parties may check out stackleague.com. StackLeague is also open to partners and sponsors. For more details email growth@stacktrek.com.


A Business with A Purpose
According to StackTrek CEO and Founder Billy Yuen, “StackTrek is not a non-profit. We are simply a business, but with a sense of purpose. We are doing something really, really important — something deep, transformative, which requires a broad worldview and an open mind to understand the true impact that we are bringing upon the world.”

By changing the education to employment landscape StackTrek will transform a nation’s education and economic future.

For more information about StackTrek, visit https://stacktrek.com.

StackLeague: The Biggest Coding eSport Event Happening in August 2019

StackLeague: Code. Compete. Connect will be the first, free and largest Esports coding event from August 3-4 at the StackLeague Arena Tektite (former Philippine Stock Exchange, Trading Floor in Ortigas)

Code
We care about how great you are at coding and we want to provide equal opportunities to get recognized by global tech companies. There’s no race, no gender, no social background - only developers.


Compete
StackLeague is a coding competition where you can showcase your skills against other coders. Databases and web technologies may change, frameworks may change, game engines may change, methodologies and tooling may change, but coding fundamentals, and logical thinking skills, and debugging techniques have remained constant.


Connect
StackLeague’s purpose is to connect coders not only with like-minded individuals but with global tech companies as well.

Interested parties may check out stackleague.com. StackLeague is also open to partners and sponsors. For more details email growth@stacktrek.com.


StackLeague is a project of StackTrek, a venture-backed global people analytics company, with offices in Hong Kong and APAC headquarters in the Philippines. The company boasts of deep expertise and propriety technologies in assessing, analyzing, and improving programmer capability – enabling the Filipino graduate to be competitive in the 4thindustrial revolution.

By changing the education to employment landscape StackTrek will transform a nation’s education and economic future.
For more information about StackTrek, visit https://stacktrek.com.

Consumer Group to Seek Legal Action Against NEA

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The National Association of Electricity Consumers for Reforms Inc. (Nasecore) has threatened legal action against the National Electrification Administration (NEA) if it fails to act on complaints against four officials of government owned electric cooperatives for allegedly using government funds and resources for campaigning as party list nominees in the last elections.

Nasecore is the group that took Manila Electric Company to the Supreme Court for overcharging consumers by including its income tax payments in the bill and won, with the SC ordering it to refund P30 billion to consumers.

“In the event that NEA fails or refuses to take remedial action on the matter and fails to formally notify us of its said action…we shall be compelled to take all legal remedies to protect member-consumer-owner interests,” Nasecore executive director Rafael Antonio Acebedo said in a letter to NEA on May 29.

According to Nasecore, the NEA has supervisory powers over electric cooperatives and that its function includes ensuring the economic and financial viability and operation of all electric cooperatives.

Acebedo asked the NEA for copies of the resignation letters of Atty. Danny Pondevilla of Northern Negros Electric Cooperative, Sergio Dagooc of Siargao Electric Cooperative, ENgr. Godofredo Guya of Davao del Sur Electric Cooperative, and Adriano Ebcas of Camiguin Electric Cooperative who all ran as representatives of partylist groups such as Philreca, APEC, Recoboda, and Ako Padayan last election.

Aside from the resignation letters, Nasecore also requested for copies of the board resolutions that would have accepted the resignations and the confirmation of the NEA of the resignations.

“We are making this request to ensure that their employment as general managers have ceased thereby stopping their entitlement to their monthly salaries and allowances and the possible use of cooperative funds and resources in their campaign efforts,” Acebedo said.

Even if the four did not tender resignation letters, they should have been considered resigned from their posts the moment they accepted the nomination as party-list representatives and should no longer have been entitled to “emoluments or privileges pertaining to such position,” Nasecore said.

Nasecore had earlier put NEA to task for allowing electric cooperatives donate funds for the campaigns of some partylist groups.

5 Easy Steps to ALWAYS Finding Cheap Flights

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Since the price of the tickets is one of the huge aspects that contributes a lot when it comes to planning the budget for a trip, it’s essential for you to find some interesting deals that will help you to reduce the price of the airfare.

After all, the price of the flight tickets is too expensive nowadays which mostly cancels your plan at the last time or forces you to choose any other transportation methods such as trains, buses, etc.

As per reports are concerned in 2019, there are about 39.4 millions of flights that have been successfully performed by the aviation industry. These flights are expected to carry more than 4.6 billion passengers in 2019.

If you are following the current trend, then you might have noticed that every day, lots of deals get released into the market by various airline service providers as part of promotional strategies.

Though it is a promotional strategy for all the airline service providers; however, you can end up saving a lot of money if you are opting for these deals while you are booking the tickets to your preferred destination. Cheap fares are just out there; what you need to do is to hunt them down and use them for your benefit.

If you want to book tickets to your favourite destinations and are searching for some exciting deals, we will help you in mastering the technique and assist you in making you learn some interesting hacks to lower your flight fares.

Steps to follow:

Here are the five easy steps you need to follow if you want to book flight tickets at affordable prices:

Step 1 - Be flexible

Prices of the airline tickets vary hugely on the time and day that you are looking to travel.

For example, if you are choosing a holiday to travel, then the price of the tickets will definitely be higher than you expect it to be.

If you are looking to travel in the Christmas holidays, New Year’s Day, or any other holiday, then the prices of the tickets will be much higher than the usual weekdays or weekends.

If you want to book the tickets when most of the people also want to fly, then definitely you will have to pay more amount of money to book the flight tickets.

You can try to travel in the weekdays before the holidays begin or after the holiday ends.

Being flexible with the dates is an essential task for you if you want to book the flight tickets at cheaper rates.

Similarly, keeping the time factor in mind is also essential for you. Try to avoid peak
business hours when everyone will be booking the tickets.

Step 2 - Look for Alternate Airports
Not only being flexible with the dates and time will help you in finding some cheap flights, but it is also essential to opt for alternate airports that will reduce the cost of the airfare.

For example, if you are choosing Air Canada for travelling to different places, it’s crucial for you to keep in mind that choosing connecting flights of the same airline to the final destination can also help you in saving a considerable amount of time.

You can go through the Air Canada flight information panels to understand how the
connecting flight works and how can you save money if you are choosing connecting
flights to travel to your preferred destination.

Simultaneously, you can go through several third-party websites that provide information about the flights and its travel time.

In some cases, the time of the travel may get extended as you are choosing the
connecting flights to travel; however, you can save a lot of money and use it on your trip.

You can also visit the place where your connecting flight is landing with the money you have saved from booking the expensive flights.

Step 3 - Fly with Free reward points
Not many of us know that you can book flight tickets for free using the reward points your bank offers.

If you do not have any credit cards, then you can opt for one and choose to book the flight tickets using the travel cards.

With the airfares going high every day, banks have come up with some great credit cards and reward points strategy that helps an ordinary person to save a lot of money.
What you need to do is get in touch the banking officials to obtain one credit card in which you can accumulate reward points that will help you in booking the flight tickets for free of cost. Most of the banks offer to join bonuses or travel reward points. Don’t miss out in any choosing the best deals available for you.

You can just register yourself in the airline rewards to earn points whenever you are
booking any tickets. This will get accumulated in your banking and credit card account that you can use it later.

The best benefit of choosing these card services is you can pay the price of the ticket later or in instalments as per your choice.

Step 4 - Choose Budget Airlines
Budget airlines usually offer cheaper tickets that are significantly low when it considered to any other airlines.

Although you will have to make some compromises when it comes to seating
arrangements or services provided by the airlines, you will end up saving a lot of money that you can invest it in your mutual funds or in your travel too.

If you have a strict budget, then it’s just for you to adjust and compromise with the
circumstances arises within your flight journey.

Not that all the budget-friendly airlines offer low-quality services, there are lots of budget airlines that provide fantastic services with excellent hospitality, which is difficult to find in any other counterparts.

Step 5 - Use different search engines to book tickets

All the search engines are nowadays providing great services to the customers. You cannot only see the alternatives of booking cheapest flight tickets, but you can also compare it with the other flight service providers to determine which is the best budget-friendly airline service provider that you can opt for.

Few search engines such as Expedia, Skyscanner, Airfare Watchdog, etc. consistently inflate high airfares as compared to others.

It’s essential for you to understand and find some alternatives to these websites that offer great deals and best prices of booking the tickets.

While booking tickets using these search engines, it’s also important for you to switch to the incognito mode, which doesn’t allow the websites to find cookies and determine your search history.

There are various search engines available on the web that you can opt for rather than
choosing the usual ones that everyone searches for.

You can compare the prices on different websites, including the popular ones. You can also perform valuable research from your end to find the best alternatives of the search engines and choose the best one that offers the best price.

Final Words
These were the five easy steps you need to follow to find the best deals available and
lower the ticket prices while you are booking them online.

If you are travelling on a planned budget, then it’s necessary for you to find the best flights available at cheaper rates and make your journey memorable.