This year, the Centenary College Chemistry Club has the mission to strive for the three pillars set by the American Chemical Society: Service, Professional Development, and Chapter Development. We prioritized these pillars through the annual programs that our club presents along with a variety of new programs to be implemented this year. Our large annual programs that work towards the pillars of Service and Professional Development are National Chemistry Week and the Annual Chemistry and Physics Circus. During National Chemistry Week we have at least one program every day of the week to benefit both members of our organization and students across the campus. The week always ends with Chemistry Club members volunteering at SciPort, Louisiana’s Science Center, to facilitate hands-on activities for kids in upper elementary and middle schools from around the area. For the Chemistry and Physics Circus, we partner with the Centenary College Physics Club and the Centenary College Admissions Department to perform a variety of demonstrations for prospective students visiting the college. During the event, prospective students are able to watch chemistry and physics undergraduate students perform the demonstrations to the crowd. The new programs to be implemented this year will focus on the Shreveport community located around the college. We hope to build relationships with local high schools, as well as local alumni who work in various industries in the town of Shreveport. Being a small chapter from a small school leaves the Centenary College Chemistry Club with some limitations, but it also allows for many unique opportunities for our members and more freedoms for our officers to plan events. With this mindset, the Centenary College Chemistry Club sees ourselves as a small but mighty club doing great things both on campus and in the surrounding community.

Small but mighty Centenary College Chemistry Club

249th National Meeting (2015)

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