Empowering Women in STEM: Pup Hygears Story
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Nicole and her team PUP Hygears from the Polytechnic University of the Philippines are out to prove the strength of women in engineering.
Out of the 104 members that make up PUP Hygears, almost half are women. Team Manager Nicole Rose Tugay recounts how people initially doubted the mostly female team, and shares how their team’s participation in Shell Eco-marathon Indonesia in 2022 proved them wrong. They want to empower others and show that they shouldn’t hesitate to do the things they want just because they are women.
Aside from representing women in engineering, the team is also dedicated to advancing technology in the Philippines while caring for the earth through finding sustainable solutions. They collected used plastic bottles from their university in a fun and engaging way. They then processed the plastic waste they collected into filaments used in 3D printing parts of their vehicle.
Hear more from Nicole in the video below.
“Energy efficient vehicles… will play a big part for us to support a greener future.”
Meet Nicole from PUP Hygears
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Title: Shell Eco-marathon: On Track Indonesia 2022 – PUP Hygears
Duration: 03:37
Description: PUP Hygears team manager Nicole Rose Tugay discusses empowering women, transforming plastic for vehicle parts, and energy efficiency.
PUP Hygears Transcript
[Background music]
Positive, futuristic music plays.
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Nicole appears, full frame.
Nicole (00:53):
If I were to describe our team in three words, it would be passionate, blessed, and positive.
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Passionate
Blessed
Positive
Positive
Positive
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PUP Hygears
Polytechnic University of the Philippines Manila, Philippines
Nicole voice-over:
We are PUP Hygears from Polytechnic University of the Philippines Manila, from Philippines.
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Nicole Rose Tugay
Team manager
Nicole:
In PUP Hygears, we are 104 members and to be exact 43 of us are women.
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Ripple transitions to team member working on vehicle, followed by three-way split of additional team members working.
Nicole voice-over:
We know that engineering, this industry is actually a male dominated industry.
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Cuts to team member drilling on vehicle door, before cutting back to Nicole.
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Women to be empowered
Nicole:
We want women to be empowered that we could actually do great things…
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Ripple transitions to frontal shot of vehicle being rolled outside garage by multiple team members, followed by rear shot.
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Nicole:
A lot of people doubted us from when we decide to join the competition ‘cause they said that we're all women and they don't believe that we can finish the vehicle, which is now here in this competition.
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Ripple transitions to team members working on vehicle.
Nicole voice-over:
That is why really want to empower them…
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Nicole:
… not only in Shell Eco-marathon, but also in the future career that they may have, and to also make them feel that they should not hesitate in doing the things that they want because they are just women. Because we're women, not just women.
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Ripple transitions to car being lifted onto ramp, before cutting back to Nicole.
Nicole:
Our team's mission is actually to help enhance the technology advancement in our country.
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Enhance
technology
advancement
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Nicole voice-over:
But we believe that it is not all about technology…
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Nicole:
… it’s also about the nature. We can't just go forward having the technology without the Earth.
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Ripple transitions to multiple team members working on vehicle, followed by close-up of the team’s logo on the side of the car.
Nicole voice-over:
Plastic bottles contributes a lot in the pollution in the Philippines.
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Nicole:
Since the team aims to give sustainable solutions to the community…
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Sustainable solutions
Nicole:
… the team had a campaign called Earth 404 where we target to collect plastic bottles.
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Campaign Earth 404
Collect plastic bottles
Nicole:
We have in our university, just like a, circular trash can…
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Trash can
Nicole voice-over:
… and it's taller compared to the normal trash can…
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Nicole:
… but we made it to have a basketball loop.
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Cuts back to three-way split of trash can, with plastic bottle being thrown through the basketball hoop.
Nicole voice-over:
Basketball is very popular in the Philippines. This initiative actually encouraged the students who throw their waste because they had fun throwing that…
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Nicole:
… like a basketball in the basketball loop.
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Cuts to three-way split of team member looking down, vehicle being rolled out of garage and rear, close up shot of vehicle.
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Nicole:
We also made the extruder machine…
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Made
extruder
machine
Nicole:
… that could actually transform the bottles that we collected…
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Transform bottles
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Ripple transitions to close-up of team members looking down, followed by shot of phone scrolling through images of 3D filament.
Nicole voice-over:
… to the 3D filament.
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3D filament
Nicole voice-over:
Those 3D filament can be used with the 3D printers to make that part…
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Cuts to team members look at the phone, before cutting back to the phone.
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3D printers
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Nicole:
… in our vehicle, such as the logos, the handles.
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Cuts to close-up of team logo on vehicle, followed by close-up of handle. Then cuts back to Nicole.
Nicole:
Since this idea, this innovation initiative it is just the beginning so it really needs a lot of understanding and research. So we just chose to use it in the small parts…
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Cuts to three-way split of team member place helmet on head.
Nicole voice-over:
… since we don't want to compromise the safety of our drivers.
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Nicole:
It's fun that not only focusing on the vehicle, creating mechanical components…
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Cuts to shot of door being taken off car, followed by close-up of drilling into doorframe.
Nicole voice-over:
… but also exploring what are the materials we can use.
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Exploring materials
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Nicole:
PUP Hygears decided to create a…
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Ripple transitions to team members talking while assessing data on paper. Then cuts to team member testing peddles in bare frame of vehicle.
Nicole voice-over:
… battery electric vehicle because we believe that battery electric is…
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Nicole:
… the future of our vehicle since…
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Cuts to shot of team members celebrating and jumping.
Nicole voice-over:
… this is greener compared to what we have right now…
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Cuts to team members holding trophy on podium, before cutting to three-way split of team posing with cheque and celebrating with trophy.
Nicole voice-over:
… and the team wants to be part of that transformation.
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Nicole:
Transportation is actually a big part of what we do in our daily lives. So it is important that we address…
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Nicole voice-over:
… those major issues like energy efficient vehicles…
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Nicole:
It'll play a big part for us to to support the greener future for everyone of us.
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Greener future for everyone
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Cuts to team members raising their hands in a huddle, before cutting back to Nicole.
Nicole:
Don't forget to like, comment and share and follow hashtag ShellEcoMarathon for more.
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#ShellEcoMarathon
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#ShellEcoMarathon
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