It’s impossible to talk about success and not think of our journey as a student chapter and as a family at the Inter American University in Ponce Puerto Rico. It’s important for us to share our knowledge with students so that they can have a solid base in their education.  During the last two years our chapter stablish new strategies to overcome the struggle of a pandemic year.  Virtual workshops, science café, games nights,  Tiktok videos, Facebook lives, virtual conferences, videos for the virtual Open House of our campus and community service are some of the activities that we performed.   Scientific demonstrations play an important role so that the students get a quality education for their future, in a fun and creative way, for this reason some of our strategies were focused in continue with our demos in a new way, adapted to our new reality.  This is a big year for us, one of our main goals has finally been accomplished. That goal is that after years of hard work our university has decided to start a chemistry major this year and we couldn’t be more excited.  As a student chapter of the ACS it was a little troublesome to get people to join us and that is why our divisions were created. Four divisions where born; medicinal, green, forensic and food chemistry. Helping the ones that need it the most plays a big part in our everyday life as a student chapter. We took part in multiple events like the festival of chemistry, the celebration of chemistry week, our members initiation ceremony and the senior technical meeting where some of our members presented their research. To help our members with their professional development we provide workshops of how to enter graduate schools and how to make a curriculum. We don’t believe in monotony, but greatly believe in innovation. Finally, we are going to keep pushing forward and give it all for the better of our association and to prove that we are still eager to keep on going and finish our dreams.

ACS inter Ponce: New strategies to continue our mission in a pandemic year

ACS Spring 2022

The official archive and repository for all ACS Meetings & Expositions abstracts and select posters or presentations.