Our chapter faced many challenges: the pandemic, a strict lockdown, classes being delayed, leaving a full year without many activities and a new reality. When our classes were either online or hybrid, our group meetings were still restricted, to comply with government guidelines. Even with those restrictions, we kept our members engaged with a diverse group of conferences, workshops, and voluntary work. We celebrated our National Chemistry week with a video about speed of reactions that was presented as part of the Festival de Química organized by the Puerto Rico Section. For Earth Week, we worked as volunteers in the in-person Festival. This last activity was the first chance we had to participate in an in-person activity, authorized by our Campus since 2019. We were really excited to meet everyone in person and help with the success of that activity. Even with those limitations, our members kept showing up, friendship developed and our adaptation to a “new” environment was confirmed. This poster presents the achievements of a very persistent and successful student chapter.

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