Technology Resource Center Training Schedule December 2012

The Technology Resource Center (TRC) conducts business and livelihood technology training courses that can transform your ideas into practice and profits. Join the TRC‘s business training courses for Filipinos this month of December 2012.

Business and Livelihood Training Schedule for December 2012

DATE / TIME	COURSE – DESCRIPTION	PRICE
Dec. 3 9am-5:30pm	Trendy Balloon Decor Lecture/Hands-on: material requirement and supplier, cost requirement, balloon twisting and how to make balloons as decorations.	Php 1,815
Dec. 3 9am-5:30pm	Hair Care Products Lecture: status of hair care products industry, hair care product specification, sources of raw materials and pricing. Hands-on: shampoo, conditioner, hot oil, leave-on conditioner and hair shine/hair cuticle coat	Php 1,815
Dec. 3-4 9am-5:30pm	Specialty Cakes and Pastries Lecture: Bookkeeping, reporting and analysis of transaction results for small business operators and owners. Bring calculator.	Php 3,499
Dec. 3-4 8am-4:30pm	Accounting and Record Keeping for Small Businesses Starting a piggery business, general management for piglets and fatteners, housing and equipment feeds and feeding, record keeping, analysis and interpretation, health management	Php 2,959
Dec. 3-5 9am-4:00pm	Swine Production and Management (with field trip) Starting a piggery business, general management for piglets and fatteners, housing and equipment, feeds and feeding, record keeping, analysis of interpretation, health management	Php 3,729
Dec. 4-5 9am-5:30pm	SORBETES Lecture: basic technology of ice cream production, material and equipment requirements, product formulation and costing. Demonstration: ice cream-on-stick preparation (pinipig crunch and other flavors). Hands-on: ice cream with assorted flavors. (with field trip to an ice cream plant)	Php 3,609
Dec. 5-6 9am-5:30pm	Event Planning and Management Lecture: basic knowledge of event planning and management for wedding, parties, local trade exhibits, meetings, consumer events (tiangges), seminars, conventions, conferences, conceptualization and topical development, etc and profitability and traffic for the event, a thorough knowledge of management functions is a requisite for successful events.	Php 2,959
Dec. 6-7 9am-5:30pm	Setting up a Junk Shop Business (with field trip) Lecture: Trends and prospects of a junk shop business, solid wastes and recyclable wastes for junk shop, costing, buying, selling techniques and pricing, tools and equipment requirements, investment requirements, manpower requirement	Php 3,289
Dec. 6-7 9am-5:30pm	Chinese Dimsum Lecture: principle of Chinese cooking, utensils and equipment, functions of ingredients, etiquette of Chinese dining, costing. Hands-on: wonton soup, siomai, almond jelly, quekiam, siopao, cuapao, pork dumplings, crispy spring rolls, seafood chow mein and crispy butterfly prawns.	Php 3,499
Dec. 6-8 9am-5:30pm	Fresh Flower Arrangement & Flower Shop Operation & Management (with field trip) Lecture: creativity, balance, proportion, texture and color harmony, flower shop operation and organizational management, costing, pricing and sourcing of materials. Demonstration on standing flower arrangements for inaugural, funeral and other important occasions. Hands-on: traditional round center piece, long and low arrangements, floral bouquet line, plane and mass arrangements. Bring garden scissors.	Php 3,729
Dec. 7 9am-5:30pm	SPA Operation and Management Lecture: material specifications, product formulation, preparation of extract, plant operations, costing and pricing. Hands-on: assorted transparent soap.	Php 1,375
Dec. 7-8 8am-4:30pm	Buko Shake/Juice in Kiosk Lecture: setting up a highly profitable coconut-buko shake/juice business in kiosk which is in demand nowadays. Topics include product formulation, processing guidelines, sanitation procedures, packaging and cost requirements. Hands-on: preparation of a refreshing quench thirsting plain and flavored (pandan, lychee, ube, strawberry, chocolate and caramel) buko shake/juice.	Php 3,499
Dec. 8-9 9am-5:30pm	Basic Culinary Principles and Techniques Lecture: basic principle of cooking, materials used, learning to substitute ingredients from the traditional to innovative and nutritious food components, suggestions on cost-effective menu preparations, hygienic food preparations,including presentation of meals for family and simple gatherings. Hands-on: different culinary preparations	Php 3,499
Dec. 8-9 9am-5:30pm	Jevelry Appraisal and Pawnshop Operation Lecture: gold testing and diamond grading, pricing, valuation and identification of gemstones, government laws and implementing guidelines related to pawnshop operation. Hands-on: determining genuine stones & appraising of gold & diamond. Bring calculator	Php 3,399
Dec. 8-10 9am-5:30pm	Home Bakeshop Lecture: functions and ingredients, proportions and product formulations, equipment and material sourcing, costing and pricing. Hands-on: cheese cupcake, pandan cake, choco cake with fudge icing, mocha rolls with mocha butter icing, brazo de mercedez, custard chiffon cake, brownies, butter-hand cookies, choc chip with peanut butter and crinkles. Bring calculator.	hp 3,829
Dec. 9-10 9am-5:30pm	Setting up a Hardware and Construction Supply Store Lecture: history, design and operation,defition of terms, selection of site, organization, nature of the business, stock and inventories control, costing and pricing, terms of payment, market potentials, projected return of investment and assumptive income analysis.	Php 2,959
Dec. 10 9am-5:30pm	Corsage and Bouquet Making Lecture: creativity, ribbon making and wiring techniques. Hands-on: corsage, headresses, flower baskets, boutonniere and bouquets for the maid of honor, bridesmaid and bride, wrist and car bouquets. Bring garden scissors and pliers	Php 1,815
Dec. 10-11 9am-5:30pm	Basic Meat Processing Lecture: meat preservation technology, production and quality control guidelines, packaging, handling and storage, new trends in the business. Hands-on: bacon, tocino, pork and chicken ham, pork sausage, corned beef, hamburger and beef tapa.	Php 3,499
Dec. 10-12 9am-4:00pm	Tilapia Culture (with field trip) Grow-out pond culture, tilapia fingerling production, hatchery and nursery system management (open pond, hapa method on pond, cage and tank systems), feeds and feeding, population control, hybridization, water and soil quality management, production economics.	Php 3,289
Dec. 11-12 9am-5:30pm	Laundry Soap and Detergents Lecture: material specifications, product formulations, costing and pricing. Hands-on: laundry bar soap, liquid and powered detergents. Bring calculator.	Php 3,399
Dec. 11-12 9am-5:30pm (NEW)	Strategic Marketing Lecture: role of marketing in business, marketing concept, marketing and business strategies, branding, marketing mix and workshop on the preparation of a marketing plan.	Php 2,959
Dec. 11-14 9am-5:30pm	Commercial Breadmaking and Bakery Management (with field trip) Lecture: functions of ingredients, proportions and product formulations, equipment and material sourcing, costing and pricing, bakery management. Hands-on: pan de sal, monay, ensaymada, raisin bread , buns, bread rolls, loaf bread, and bread with filings. Bring calculator.	Php 4,269
Dec. 12-13 9am-5:30pm (NEW)	No-Bake Desserts Lecture: functions of ingredients proportions and product formulations, equipment and material sourcing, costing and pricing. Hands-on: tiramisu, express cheescake, ube banan cream pie, sweet float delights, easy oreo cheescake, panna cotta, caramelized banana ala mode and no-bake fruit cake.	Php 3,499
Dec. 12-14 9am-4:00pm	Layer Production (Table Egg) Management (with field trip) Lecture: layer and breed, production management, housing, nutrition, feeds and feeding management and production economics	Php 3,289
Dec. 13-15 9am-5:30pm	Starting a Travel Service Business Lecture: nature and types of travel business, setting up process, travel products and services and their incomes, the legal and capital requirements of the business and some basic travel technicalities for owners such as geography, reservation procedures of major suppliers – airlines, ships and hotels, e-Ticketing procedures and the computerized booking system. Workshop: written exercises and actual booking exercises using computer Bring calculator.	Php 3,729
Dec. 13-15 9am-5:30pm	Silkscreen Printing This course covers the study and practices on basic and advance screen printing processes such as hand cut and photographic stenciling method for single/multi colored job and the use of different types of ink and substrate. Lecture/Hands-on: computer/digital art preparation, hand cut and photographic stencil making, finishing-curing and drying, printing techniques, mesh stretching, t-shirt, decals and fabric printing.	Php 3,729
Dec. 14-15 9am-5:30pm	Advanced Cake Decorating (with field trip) Lecture/Hands-on: cake top arrangements, scrolls, different designs for wedding cakes, sugar roses, daisies, chrysanthemums, gum paste, paneling, painting and landscaping of birthday cakes, 3 layered lighted wedding cake, flower bouquet, free hand cattleya and roses.	Php 3,499