REACTiON

Term 1 of our 3rd Year may have tested our limits, but like strong bonds, we held firm and remained stable under pressure. Here’s to the experiments completed, concepts mastered, and growth we continue to experience. May the next terms bring more positive reactions and successful results — individually and as a class!

🖼️ : Alea Benitez
🗃️ : James Polo

Welcome to Luto Serye: Episode 2! 🍽️✨

Today, we discover how different cooking methods—boiling, frying, baking, steaming, and sautéing 👩‍🍳🔥—each involve amazing chemistry that affects the nutrition and taste of our food. Boiling helps soften food and release nutrients into the water, frying triggers the Maillard reaction for crisp textures but adds fats 🍟, baking causes caramelization and rising reactions that make bread fluffy 🥖, steaming preserves vitamins and keeps food moist 🥦💧, and sautéing uses quick heat to enhance color, aroma, and flavor 🍳😋.

Each method changes food components like carbohydrates 🍞, proteins 🍗, and vitamins 🍊, showing us that cooking is truly daily-life chemistry 🔬—helping us make meals that are enjoyable, nutritious, and smart for our health 🌱💚.

🖼️ : Alea Benitez
🗃️ : James Polo

Happy Birthday to an incredible leader and an even more incredible friend! 🥳💙

You’ve always been a catalyst of positivity—encouraging others to react with confidence, inspiring strong bonds of teamwork, and making every challenge manageable with your wisdom and patience.

Your compassion and understanding make you someone people can always turn to. The Chemical Society is thriving not just because of your smart decisions, but because you lead with heart and treat everyone with respect.

Today, may your life’s equation be balanced with happiness, excitement, and success. May every reaction you encounter produce nothing but favorable results, and may your dreams crystallize into reality. Enjoy your day to the fullest—you deserve every bit of celebration!

🖼️ : Alea Benitez
🗃️ : James Polo

Today, we celebrate the birthday of one of our dedicated and dependable Student Assistants — Cyrelle Arceo!

🎉 Your commitment, initiative, and professionalism have greatly contributed to our daily operations and the positive spirit of our team. We truly appreciate your effort, your reliability, and the kindness you extend to everyone around you.

On your special day, we wish you continued growth, wisdom, and success in both your academic and personal journey. May this year bring you even more reasons to smile and be proud of how far you’ve come. 🌟🎂

🖼️ : Alea Benitez
🗃️ : James Polo

🌟✨ FSTEM General Assembly and Laurels 2025 ✨🌟

On September 20, 2025, the FSTEM community came together for a meaningful gathering filled with recognition, leadership, and celebration. 💙 This year’s General Assembly was more than just an event—it was a reminder of our shared passion for growth, unity, and excellence. From welcoming new members, to honoring the achievements of our peers, and witnessing the oath-taking of our new set of officers, the day was filled with inspiration and pride. 🙌📘

This celebration highlighted that STEM is not only about science, technology, engineering, and mathematics—it’s about teamwork, dedication, and making a difference in the world around us. 💡🔬⚙️ Together, we embark on another academic year with renewed energy, commitment, and hope. 🌍✨

Here’s to building stronger connections, reaching new milestones, and continuing to inspire as one FSTEM family. Cheers to a year of success and meaningful journeys ahead! 💙🌟

🖼️ : Alea Benitez
🗃️ : James Polo

🌟📚 Success doesn’t happen overnight—it is built through hard work, discipline, and perseverance. Today, we honor our students who have shown remarkable academic excellence and proficiency, proving that every effort and sacrifice leads to something meaningful. 💡✨

Your achievements remind us that learning goes beyond grades—it’s about growth, resilience, and the courage to dream big. 🌱💪 You are living examples that with focus and determination, nothing is impossible.

To our awardees: may this milestone be just the beginning of greater things ahead. Keep shining, keep striving, and continue to inspire others to reach for their goals. 🌍🔥

👏 Congratulations once again to our outstanding achievers—you make us proud! 🎉

🖼️ : Alea Benitez
🗃️ : James Polo

Welcome to Luto Serye: Episode 1! 🍴✨ In this series, we don’t just cook—we connect food, nutrition, and chemistry 🔬🥗 to our daily lives.

Cooking is like a practical chemistry lab: the Maillard reaction 🍖 gives our sautéed dishes their rich flavor, caramelization 🍯 makes our sweets golden and tasty, and protein denaturation 🥚 happens when we boil eggs or steam vegetables. These processes affect how nutrients like carbohydrates for energy 🍞, proteins for growth 🍗, and vitamins and minerals 🍊🥦 are retained or transformed in our meals.

By understanding the science behind cooking, we learn that food is more than just flavor—it is a daily choice that nourishes our body 💚, promotes healthy living 🌱, and turns every plate into both a delicious dish 😋 and a real-life science lesson 📚.

🖼️ : Alea Benitez
🗃️ : James Polo

Happiest Birthday to our multi-talented artist and chemist, Anne! 🎨🧪

From balancing chemical equations to balancing colors on a canvas, you’ve shown us how science and art can beautifully blend together. You’re not just our section’s artist, but you’re also the one who reminds us that creativity and curiosity go hand in hand. Whether it’s through your sketches, your brilliance in Chemistry, or the positivity you bring to class, you always inspire us to look at the world in a more colorful and meaningful way. 🌸💡

On your special day, we wish you reactions full of happiness, bonds filled with love, and countless experiments of success and joy ahead. May your year be as bright as a flame test and as limitless as the periodic table of possibilities! ✨💖

🖼️ : Alea Benitez
🗃️ : James Polo

🔬 New Reactions, New Leaders!

As we embark on a new journey, a fresh chapter unfolds—filled with experiments to explore, reactions to discover, and challenges to overcome. With this, we proudly welcome the officers of BSCIEC-CHEM III-22 for Term 1, A.Y. 2025–2026. 🌟

Together, let us embrace this year with unity, passion, and determination, turning challenges into opportunities and goals into achievements. ✨

Layout by Alea Mae Benitez
Caption by Francis Orbino

Welcome aboard our Biyaheng Third Year! 🚍✨ This school year is more than just lessons and exams, it’s about the discoveries we make, the challenges we face, and the friendships we build along the way. Like a journey in science, every trial helps us grow, every question brings us closer to answers, and every step takes us nearer to our dreams. Here’s to a year of learning, growing, and exploring together! 🔬📚💡

Layout by Alea Mae Benitez
Caption by James Carl Polo

"𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙞𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙚𝙣𝙙 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙗𝙚𝙜𝙞𝙣𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜."

On July 10, 2025, II-22 closed the chapter of the first school year as chemistry majors with a heartfelt celebration. Laughter echoed through the room as we shared games, food, and memories.

It wasn’t just a party; it was a reminder that 𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝗲𝗻𝗱𝘀, 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗲 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗯𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴.

Layout by Princess Marigondon
Caption by Mica Martinez