The Pacific Lutheran University ACS Student Chapter, the PLU Chemistry Club, has continued pursuing goals to increase the involvement of members and participation of non-members in events. Our club recieved a Commendable Chapter Award and Green Chemistry Award for our work last year (2012-2013) and hope to continue on that path of success.  Outreach has been a core effort.  As has become tradition, we participated in the 2013 South Sound Sustainability Expo in Tacoma, WA and presented a tri-fold information display on �everyday chemistry� to demystify the reputation �chemicals� sometimes get. We also shared our passion for chemistry and some hands-on demos at the Woodbrook Middle School Science fair and our April 2013 Desserts and Demos event.  This academic year, the Chemistry Club officers have taken on the extra responsibility of holding separate meetings to ensure that each club meeting is planned with an activity and snack. We have also expanded our fundraising to include ACS study guides for General and Organic Chemistry, as well as seasonal novelty items such as borax snowflakes. Finally, to increase our recruitment potential, the Chemistry Club officers are working on a �Chemistry Club Commercial� which will feature footage from our spectacular Mole Day Eve National Chemistry Week event as well as elucidate the benefits of PLU Chem Club membership.

PLU Chem Club thermodynamics: Decreasing entropy to increase free energy

247th National Meeting (2014)

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