15/12/2025
🌟 Small-Scale Labs, BIG Nation-Building Impact! 🔬🌱
What an extraordinary year for the Small-Scale Green Chemistry Education Program under the Dow Green Chemistry & Sustainability Academy! 🙌💚
Across 4 powerful cohorts from Luzon to Mindanao, Dow Philippines together with CISTEM and our dedicated partners empowered 213 Chemistry teachers from 108 schools—equipping them with sustainable, low-cost, and hands-on lab practices that make science accessible, engaging, and transformative for Filipino students. 👩🏫👨🏫✨
From Rizal and Antipolo City, to Muntinlupa, Las Piñas, and Parañaque, to Iligan City, and finally Lanao del Norte, this initiative proved that when industry, academe, and government work together, we create lasting change in STEM education. 🤝🌍
📌 Overall Impact of the 2025 SSGCE Program:
• 👩🏫 213 teachers, school heads, and supervisors trained across 4 regional cohorts
• 🏫 108 schools in 7 SDOs engaged from Luzon to Mindanao
• 🔬 Thousands of students to benefit from improved, hands-on science instruction
• 🧪 Small-scale, sustainable experiments introduced to resource-limited schools
• 🌱 Stronger integration of green chemistry and sustainability in SHS classrooms
• 🤝 Deepened collaboration among industry, DepEd, academe, and foundations
• 🌍 A growing community of educators championing accessible and eco-friendly STEM learning
These teachers will help tens of thousands of young Filipinos see Chemistry not as a challenge—but as a pathway to innovation, sustainability, and real-world problem solving. 💡♻️🧪
Here’s to empowering classrooms, inspiring students, and shaping a greener and more scientifically empowered future for the Philippines! 🚀🌈