National Science Month
The 2025 National Science Month, with its stirring theme “Harnessing the Unknown: Powering the Future through Science and Innovation,” signals a bold call to action. Rather than passively observing what lies beyond our current comprehension, the theme urges us to actively venture into frontiers of uncertainty. In the Philippine context, DepEd’s official memorandum confirms that this is indeed the adopted theme for the yearlong celebration. Through school contests, lectures, exhibits, and science club activities, the month aims not just to popularize science, but to cultivate a mindset: that exploration of the “unknown” is not merely speculative, but a critical engine of progress. Over the coming decades, the interplay between science and society will evolve in both complexity and urgency. Science will no longer operate only in laboratories or academic silos; it will increasingly be embedded in daily governance, public policy, healthcare, climate resilience, and social justic...