Pasiklaban sa Paaralan is the only ICT-integrated quiz show in the country today. It harnesses the powers of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) to bring to students, coaches, and their schools a unique experience in interschool quiz competitions.

The only ICT-integrated traveling quiz show in the country today, Pasiklaban sa Paaralan offers a whole new dimension to interschool quiz competition by harnessing the power of Information and Communications Technology.

Diwa’s pioneering quiz show lets student-contestants compete with one another as if they are engaged in an intellectual yet fierce computer game. In Pasiklaban sa Paaralan, the student-contestants answer questions by using laptop computers as their input device.

“Pasiklaban contestants are each assigned to a laptop that is connected to the Pasiklaban server, which controls the proceeds of the entire competition,” said Armel Espiritu, Marketing Services Manager of Diwa Learning Systems Inc., the company that handles the competition. The server is the database that contains all the questions and answers and the information about the contestants.

“The laptop computers are connected to the server, which is the heart and brain of the Pasiklaban technology, via local area network cables. The server gives the questions, checks the contestants’ answers, and displays them in the projected monitor screen,” Espiritu explains. “At every stage of the competition, the server tallies the scores. At the end of the entire competition, the server sums up all the scores and in a matter of seconds, the winners are announced.”

Barely a year after it was launched, Pasiklaban sa Paaralan has already brought its unique and innovative quiz show to some 150 schools nationwide. The Pasiklaban sa Paaralan caravan has made stops in Metro Manila, Cebu, Tacloban, Carcar, Davao, Cagayan de Oro, Bukidnon, North Cotabato, General Santos, Ozamis, Pagadian, Bacolod, and Iloilo. This January, it is set to visit schools in key cities in Northern Luzon.