The Mississippi College Student Members of ACS (SMACS) chapter has focused on the mission of promoting chemistry in the community and among our students.  In the past year, the chapter held or participated in eighty-six events.  These events include forty-two service, fourteen professional development, and thirty chapter development.  Service to the community includes traditional chemistry demonstrations at local schools (K-12), the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science, the Perkins Center Girls & Boys Club, and labs for home schooled children.  Additional community service conducted by our chapter includes a high school tutoring program in the areas of chemistry, physics, and mathematics, as well as working with the local high school chemistry club.  For professional development, the chapter hosted workshops throughout the year to assist members in grant writing, career choices, professional schools, and presentation skills.  Furthermore, our chapter is active within the ACS community as we have attended five scientific meetings during the past year year at the local, regional and national levels with members presenting their research.  For chapter development, the club held many social activities, such as a bonfire, fishing, cookouts, an annual fish fry, mole hunt, and a cake party to celebrate the official IUPAC naming of the four new elements.  The chapter is also successful in many fundraising activities.  The most unique and profitable of our fundraising activities is growing a large garden and selling the produce at the local farmer’s market.  This provides us not only an opportunity to raise money, but also the chance to interact with a large number of people in the community and inform them about our use of green chemistry insecticides.

Mississippi College ACS student chapter activities and events

255th National Meeting (2018)

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