Promoting chemistry in the community and among our students is the mission of the Mississippi College Student Members of ACS (SMACS) chapter. In the past year, the chapter hosted or participated in one hundred eight events. These events include forty-six service, fifteen professional development, and forty-seven chapter development events. Our community service is heavily focused on high school students: we offer free weekly tutoring program in the areas of chemistry, physics, and mathematics, and we host joint events with the local high school chemistry club. However, our community service is not limited to local high school students: we perform traditional chemistry demonstrations at local schools (K-12) at the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science and host chemistry labs for home schooled students. 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: we have attended five scientific meetings during the past year year at the local, regional, and national levels with members presenting their research at each. For chapter development, the club held many social activities, such as a bonfires, fishing days, cookouts, the annual fish fry, and a mole hunt to celebrate mole day. The chapter is also successful in many fundraising activities of which, the most fruitful was grant writing: The chapter applied for and received four grants during the past year. Most notably, our chapter has been awarded the Outstanding Chapter Award for the past four consecutive years.

ACS student chapter at Mississippi College

2019 Spring National Meeting

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