- Don Bosco Technical Institute, Victorias
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For schools of a similar name, see Don Bosco School.
Don Bosco Technical Institute
Victorias
Established 1951 Type Private, Salesian Rector Fr. Godofredo Atienza, SDB Location Victorias City, Negros Occidental, Philippines Campus 40,000 m² Colors Blue and White Mascot Grigio Don Bosco Technical Institute in Victorias City, Philippines, also known as "Don Bosco Victorias" is an all-male high school combining college-preparatory academic courses and technical education. Students select four quarter-long technology courses to take during their junior year and senior year in the high school program 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. The rector is Fr. Godofredo Atienza, SDB.
Don Bosco-Victorias offers extracurricular activities as well as sports. The sports program includes football, basketball, baseball, table tennis, and volleyball. Extracurricular activities include art and animation clubs, campus ministry Salesian Youth Movement groups, honor societies, and musical bands. The school is rooted on Catholic values.
The school is located in the Victorias City, 34 kilometres 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).
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History
The first Salesian educational institution, St. John Bosco Academy, was founded in 1951 in Tarlac, Tarlac. A second institution, the Don Bosco Technical Institute (DBTI), was established in 1952 in Victorias, Negros Occidental, and was followed by other Don Bosco schools in Mandaluyong (1953), Cebu (1954), Makati (1954) and eventually Pampanga (1956).
The school was purposely 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. His dream was to establish schools to mold young people into faithful Christians and honest citizens.
In January and February 2007, DBTI Victorias celebrated Don Bosco Day in honor of St. John Bosco, whose feast day is January 31. The theme was "For Life" in response to the Rector Major's 2007 Strenna, "Let us be guided by God's love for life."
In 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).
Technology programs
- Computer Technology (Computer)
- Electronics (Electronics)
- Mechanical (Mechanical)
External links
- Don Bosco Technical Institute - Victorias
- Salesian Society of Don Bosco
- Don Bosco Technical College, Mandaluyong City
External links
Categories:- Salesian schools
- Salesian secondary schools
- Roman Catholic schools in the Philippines
- Roman Catholic secondary schools in the Philippines
- Don Bosco schools in the Philippines
- Boys' schools in the Philippines
- Negros Oriental
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