The celebration opened on January 20, 2012, with the "400 Shots to Immortality" photo exhibit at the UST Museum of Arts and Sciences and the Main Building lobby.
It featured photographs of the UST campus and Thomasian life taken by Paul Allyson Quiambao, an Architecture student and former Varsitarian photography editor.
The photographs were documented beginning 2007, and were categorized into different sections by University archivist Regalado Trota-Jose.
The categories were: "Unguarded Moments", "Our Fathers", "Royal, Pontifical, Spectacular", "Showcase of Thomasian Culture", "We are the Champions", "Record Breaker—13,266 Strong", "Quadricentennial Celebration", "UST in Paris", "Voted to Maria", "Larger than Life", and "The Promised Land".
Cirkulo Hispano Tomasino, a student organisation on Spanish culture, supervised the event.