The University of Minnesota-Morris ACS chemistry club aims to get students of all ages involved and interested in science. Coming into this year, the main goal of all officers was to increase participation in club events. At the university level, weekly meetings are held that start out with a presentation on something new in chemistry and end with a demo. Demos such as making chapstick, liquid nitrogen ice cream, periodic table of cupcakes, playing with nitinol and “exploding” pumpkins have been done thus far with plans to show different types of indicators, make bath bombs, and tie dye lab coats in the next couple of months. Through these meetings and demos, attendance has been increased from about 5-10 students last year to 20-30 this year. In order to reach a broader audience here for those who may not come to meetings, members volunteer at the Yule Ball dance as the “slug club” doing interactive demos. To reach a younger age group and the community, some of the members go over to the local elementary school about once a semester to do demos. Last year this reached all of the third through sixth graders and the goal is to repeat that this year. Overall, the hope is that there will be continued success in meeting all of the goals and the chapter will continue to grow in order to take back some of its former dominance on campus. <br/>

University of Minnesota-Morris ACS student chapter

255th National Meeting (2018)

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