The Student Chapter developed activities to promote change in children, young people and adults by communicating science, ethics and critical thinking. Last year, in October, during the national chemistry week, the Student Chapter adapted activities in a virtual environment, some of these were: exhibition of the history of glue by zoom platform and shown in Facebook, contest to make slime, and participants had to submit images for rating, flyers about glue and the chemistry behind it, exhibition on how to handle stress in virtuality, and a game about a world climate simulator with many people representing different countries. Furthermore, the Chapter’s social media shared a lot of information about chemistry and topics about these activities. Also, the inductions were not stopped for new members, and during the COVID-19 era, a lot of new people were interested in working chapter. Additionally, it was the first University Congress about Green Chemistry and Clean Energies in which talks about nanotechnology, cell development, biofuels, and advanced materials were presented. Also, the congress was organized by the three student chapters established in Costa Rica. One of the important activities carried by the Student Chapter was a science workshop for children, for which as a team a manual of simple experiments was created with different terms related to chemistry, and a certificate of participation was issued for each of the participants. Another activity that was carried out during the time of the pandemic was the project between countries "Química sin Fronteras", in this academic material was developed for students of elementary schools, high schools, and colleges and available in web to people from all over Latin America so that more and more students are interested in science, mainly chemistry. As a method to obtain financial resources, a virtual bingo was held with the university community and their families.

Building a participative international ACS student chapter during COVID-19 times

ACS Fall 2021

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