The four years of existence of the Philippine Science High School - Bicol Region Campus has been a continuous battle with much of the seemingly insurmountable difficulties. It seems that this Campus has been unfortunately paired with complexity. Yet despite such fate, its determined disposition has made it resilient to such onslaught.

The signing of Republic Act 8304 in 1996 as amended by Republic Act 8619 in 1998 made official the conversion of San Rafael National High School, at Tigaon, Camarines Sur under the Department of Education Culture and Sports into the Philippine Science High School - Camarines Sur Campus under the Philippine Science High School System and the Department of Science and Technology. This conversion though created mammoth problems.

For one, it had no budget and no personnel. For two years, the Campus had to rely on San Rafael National High School for its finances and supervision and the initial enrollees had to be taught, without pay, by its teachers.

11, 2000, donating an additional one hectare lot adjoining the first five hectares ). The Municipality of Tigaon, having realized its mistake scrambled to pass a resolution objecting to the transfer of the Campus to Goa citing legalities and an alleged objections of tenants at the donated site. But everything was baseless and mere fabrications.

Anyhow, the donation ascertained the positive outcome of the effort to restore San Rafael National High School and the final establishment of the Camarines Sur Campus through an insertion in the Republic Act 8496, an Act establishing the Philippine Science High School System which was carried thru House Bill No. 8134 seeking for the addition of Section 11-A which contains a paragraph providing separate personalities for both the Campus and the San Rafael National High School, and transferring back the latter's properties supposedly absorbed by the Campus. The Campus could not yet transfer to its six-hectare-lot due to several constraints like the lack of necessary facilities like buildings, water supply, power connection and communications.

In May 2000, the discomfort of sharing a limited space with an equally growing high school forced the Camarines Sur Campus to Goa through the help of then Cong. Arnulfo P. Fuentebella and the hospitality of the Partido State College. The College allowed the Campus to occupy two of its buildings. With that, the accommodation of 125 scholars from first to third year levels was then solved. This tested the ability of the Campus to adopt and respond to any challenge. It was a coincidence that a businessman had constructed a dormitory near the occupied buildings which was intended supposedly for the college students. The Campus, through its Director, was able to convince the owner for humanitarian reason to let it rent the building with a minimal amount to solve the space problem. This happened in a span of two days.

Despite the growth of the school population to 219 scholars and 36 employees, following the decision of the dormitory owner to construct a new dormitory building and the College' consent of allowing the Campus' extension for another school year and of allowing some of the scholars to occupy a section of the college dormitory, the opening of the School Year 2001-2002 went with manageable hitches. The Campus was then waiting for Phase I construction of its ACA and Dorm buildings to be completed.

It has always been the prayer of the Bicol Region Campus to be able to finally settle in a place it could call home. The desire has become more intense when it has been made obvious the host can no longer give an extension to this Campus. The Partido State College has just been converted into a University and whether it would still like it or not, the need for the occupied buildings was inevitable.