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NESACS & Boston Museum of Science (Oct. 23, 2011)
NESACS & partners reach> 3,000 students from grade school to high school & beyond during NCW celebration in Boston from Oct. 23-29, 2011.
The Northeastern Section of the American Chemical Society with its 7,500 members is the largest Local Section in the American Chemical Society (ACS). The ACS is the largest scientific society in the world with 163,000 members. NESACS & The ACS are dedicated to attracting students to a career in chemistry. It can begin at a very young age so our National Chemistry Week (NCW) celebration has a number of programs designed to attract & interest students from grade school to high school and beyond (teachers).
 | Duxbury High school student Nick Waltz, Bassam Shakhashiri and Jack Driscoll at MOS Science is Fun Lecture. When we asked Nick if he enjoyed the lecture he answered "it was awesome". We pressed on asking him for his favorite part and he said: "setting the book on fire (chemistry pyrotechnics), the chemiluminescence reactions (science is fun in the dark, too) and the oscillating color change reactions" (Briggs-Rauscher Oscillating Color Change). Photo courtesy: Jennifer Maclachlan
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Lecture on "Science is Fun" for NESACS members & MOS visitors. Bassam Shakhashiri, President elect of the ACS, demonstrated of a series of chemistry experiments One 9 year old visitor was captivated by Bassam. The audience numbered about 400 people who were also wowed during the hour long session. NESACS setup a demonstration area for experiments such as testing pH (pH paper and indicators), preparation of a hand sanitizer. Several hundred people stopped by to visit and view the chemical experiments. More than 100 volunteers from NESACS & local Colleges staffed the chemical experiments area.
NESACS- Chemistry Connections for High School Teachers (Oct. 24, 2011)
This is the 11th year for the Chemistry Connections program with the Burlington High School.
There were 72 Chemistry teachers from about 40 schools in the Greater Boston area at the Chemistry Connections.
Bassam Shakhashiri, President elect of the ACS, was the keynote speaker and four workshops were available for the teachers
 | Connections workshop facilitators: top L to R: Hannah Sevian, UMass Boston, Joseph Harney, UMass Boston, bottom L to R: Jack Driscoll, PID Analyzers, LLC and Dan Damelin (The Concord Consortium) Photo courtesy: M.Z. Hoffman
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NESACS & Boston Museum of Science (Oct. 27, 2011)- Middle School & High School Students
More than 500 middle school and high school students from nine different cities & towns visited the MOS for a "Science is Fun" demonstration. This program was partially funded by the Lowell Institute. These students and many of the 1,500 museum visitors stopped by to visit the NESACS chemistry area to view the experiments.
NESACS & the Boston Children's Museum (Oct. 29. 2011)
 | Goggle Girls: 1st graders Abby (far left) and Cassie far right Kindergartener Raegan and Pre-K Kid Kaelyn enjoyed making their own hand sanitizer. They even got to choose their own fragrance for it; among the most popular choices were lavender and mint.
Abby said "we don't have to buy sanitizer at the store anymore since we know how to make it with chemistry". Photo courtesy: Jennifer Maclachlan
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The NESACS chemistry area was setup at the Children's Museum and was visited by more than 400 potential science students from 3years+. Many of the children were quite excited by the demonstrations.
Each of these 4 spectacular National Chemistry Week events were written up in a report format instead of the summary that is included above. These are available upon request.
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