Marcial O.

Rañola Memorial School

Guinobatan, Albay

The effects of power interruption to Grade 12 HUMSS students of MORMS

Proponents:

John Michael Nares

John Abe Nasayao
Jude Marvin Olleta
James Narvaez
Maui Millano III
Ivan San Buenaventura
 Introduction

According to the Department of Energy during the 80s and 90s, the Philippines suffered from

insufficient power supply and poor power transmission. Power outages were daily during that

period. That problem that began decades ago still has been the number one problem of the people

around our province.

Electricity provides lighting in our households, power appliances, and most importantly in

schools. Our research mainly focuses on the effects of power outages to the 12th grade HUMSS

students of Marcial O. Rañola Memorial School.

Electricity has been a big factor when it comes to studying, students may get their home

works done more quickly by using gadgets, mainly laptops and smart phones. Without electricity

it is quite punishing to use this kind of devices because their batteries can be easily drained just

by working a few hours. Internet café's is also one of the so called 'helpers' of students when it

comes to studying because this helps mostly all of the students that does not owe any of these

devices to make their work much more simpler. But again, if there is no electricity this internet

café's doesn't have any more value for the students.

This is one of the most critical problems of 2nd shift students of HUMSS because 12th grade

students goes home before 7 specifically 6:45. What if it's already dark and they still have one

more subject left and then the power cuts off, they will obviously have a hard time reading the

white and the blackboard because there is minimal signs of lighting and generators in each of the

rooms are not present. This may cause them to leave school early too because this may also give

the students eye malfunctions. Also, what if they have to do something important at their houses
and suddenly the power cuts off, of course an outage causes computers to shut down

unexpectedly. Any files you were working on could be lost or become corrupted. If power

outages occur frequently which it does here at our province, can damage your hard drive and

reduce its lifespan. And what about the students who spends their time working in internet cafés.

If outages occur then once again its guaranteed that they will go home empty-handed and they

just waste a ton of time and maybe a bit of cash at nothing.

Also, ICT classes or computer training classes, are also highly affected by this power outages

because our school doesn't have generators. When there is no power, there is no Internet access

and schools that use desktop computers (as opposed to battery-powered laptops) can't even

demonstrate offline computer skills. In such cases, only students with charged smart phones can

complete assignments that require internet access.

Statement of the Problem

This study is to seek answers for the following questions:

1. What are the experiences that are encountered by the following respondents during power

interruption?

A.) Students

B.) Teachers

C.) Admin and staff

 2. How does power interruption affect their performance in school?

3. What actions can the school management do for the students about this power outage

issue?

Scope and Delimitation

This main focus of this study is to let the students know what effects does this

unannounced blackouts give to them. The primary data gathering method used was

interview to some of the students of the 12th grade HUMSS students of Marcial O.

Rañola Memorial School on what effects does this outages give them that affects their

studies.

This research is designed to have a knowledge of problems of every 12th grade HUMSS

students on how they can still manage to finish every school activities overnight and how

they can still concentrate in class even if there is only minimal signs of lighting and not

only suffer from insect bites but also the students suffering from intense heat.
 Significance of the Study

The results of this study could be beneficial to the following:

12th Grade HUMSS Students. The results will provide the students with some

knowledge on power interruption and how to resolve it. It will give the students an idea

that outages is not a simple problem to solve but it's an exercise for themselves on how

they can do their school activities or home works without using devices that uses internet

connection.

Teachers. The given data in this study would train teachers on what to do with the class if

an unannounced blackout has happened.

Parents. This study will let the student's parents know the effects of the unannounced

blackouts to their children's studies

Administrators and Staff. The results and data's gathered

in our study would give the staff and administrators an idea on how to solve this occurring

problem in school. Like, possibly operating generators for every shift so that all of the

students can be comfortable until their shift ends.

Notes in Chapter 1