The American Chemical Society (ACS), the world’s largest scientific society, embraces green and sustainable chemistry and engineering as an innovative pathway towards a safer and more sustainable world. Green Chemistry is an essential tool for the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus Student Chapter due to the impact it has on the local community. Our goal with this branch is serving as a knowledge stimulus to both students from all-academic levels and administration using an engaging and focused dynamic using the Green Chemistry topic. For this we have implemented our “Green Hero” whom exemplifies the Twelve Principles of Green Chemistry. Also, the attendance of highly relevant webinars, seminars and workshops provides a guide to our students in notion of preserving our environment. This includes, but is not limited to, our hands–on demonstrations, magic chemistry shows, and our personal research experiences. In addition, Earth Week is a key factor when exposing to the community the concept of Green Chemistry primarily through activities involving our direct academic community and our virtual community through social media platforms i.e. Facebook, Instagram and Twitter leading to higher exposure to the concept of Green Chemistry. Finally, we transcend the lines of portraying the beauty of Green Chemistry with dynamics that are appealing to the array of audiences that we are subject to. Thus, demonstrating that the education, impact and inspiration that the concept of Green Chemistry carries is pivotal to understand that it has the necessary means to attest the global environmental problems that we as people confront today.

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2019 Spring National Meeting

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