Asian Terminals Inc. donates 3 million pesos to the iACADEMY scholarship fund

Left to right:  Thomas Stratford, Creative Director, Leny Prado, VP Administration, Andrew Hoad, Executive Vice President of Asian Terminals, Inc, Mitch Andaya, VP – Academics, and Jose Morales, iAcademy Chief Operating Officer.

Asian Terminals Incorporated (ATI) donated a sum of 3.213 million pesos to support the  iACADEMY scholarship program. 

Mitch M. Andaya, Vice President of Academics and Dean of the School of Computing, received the check on behalf of iACADEMY from ATI Executive Vice President Andrew Hoad on February 5, 2014.

“This donation goes a long way in supporting our goals to increase the enrollment in our Software Engineering, Game Development and Animation programs,” said Andaya. “iACADEMY Software Engineers are some of the most sought after programmers in the market today, and with this donation we hope to bring  the best available freshmen and transferees into iACADEMY regardless of their ability to pay.”

“We are very grateful to ATI for this generous donation, and we hope that this is just the beginning of a long and fruitful partnership.  ATI is a forward –looking organization that has come to support our goal to double the number of software engineers, this is an occupation where supply  has never been able to meet demand, and with the direction towards content creation, and migration to the mobile platform, we can expect the demand for software engineers to continue to outpace supply.” said iACADEMY Chief Operating Officer Jose Morales.

This donation provided for future iACADEMY students is just one of ATI’s many Corporate  Social Responsibility initiatives, which work to ensure a brighter future for its surrounding communities. ATI operates and manages the Manila South Harbor, the port of Batangas, and the port of General Santos.

iACADEMY is one of the country’s leading schools in the fields of Design and Computing. The iACADEMY philosophy is to prepare students for the needs of the industry and fill the gap in the market through programs designed and curated by industry practitioners and experienced members of the academic community.