The Bridgewater State University student chapter, known as the BSU Chemistry Club, has made strides at becoming a club that not only involves Bridgewater State students, but also the surrounding community. It is important to our club to ensure that the Bridgewater community becomes involved in learning about chemistry in everyday life and how it affects them.  Throughout the year, the Chemistry Club hosts events open to the Bridgewater community that inform them how they could be impacted by the chemistry around them. Many of these events aim to raise people’s awareness of human and environmental health, and how chemistry plays a big role in this. In addition to general community outreach, the club is very involved in promoting STEM education for the younger generations. The club holds events for K-12 students where they can conduct safe and exciting experiments in order to have a better understanding of chemistry in every day life. This allows them to become familiar with the lab setting in a fun way, and to get them excited about science and discovery. As the students learn more about science, the Chemistry Club members are expanding their knowledge as well as their leadership and communication skills by leading activities to promote science in its simplest form.

Promoting STEM education through BSU chemistry club outreach

251st National Meeting (2016)

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