PLEASE CONSIDER VOLUNTEERING FOR THE FOLLOWING STEM/STEAM EVENTS:
DEMONSTRATE THE EXCITEMENT AND VALUE OF CHEMISTRY FOR OUR DIVERSE COMMUNITY! |
Last year we participated in Pocono Mt West’s first Night of Science for all their elementary schools. They’d love to have us back. This year it is going to be a Night of STEAM for all of their K-12 students in the district and their families on Monday, April 22nd in honor of Earth Day from 5-8 pm at the Pocono Mountain West High School. We’ll do battery builds and other cool demos.
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The Reading Science Center is planning its first outdoor "Celebrate Science Day" on Sunday, April 28th from 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. This will take place on the campus of Drexel University College of Medicine, West Reading, PA. They anticipate about 400 families will attend. It will be a mix of STEM-related demonstrations, including experiments from the Reading Science Center, resources and lessons from the Drexel Med faculty and students, an aquaponics van, therapy dogs, inflatable firehouse, concessions, music, etc., etc.! We’ll focus on this year’s Chemists Celebrate Earth Week (CCEW) battery-related demos.
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SLMS has invited us to be part of their Second Annual SLSD STEAM Expo scheduled for Monday 4/29/24 from 6-8 pm at Southern Lehigh Middle School. Like last year, we’ll have a table and spot on their STEAM Passport, which families will use to navigate the building and explore STEAM opportunities. We’re planning take-away and hands-on interactive experiences in order to engage students and families. We had some fantastic exhibits last year and are so excited to participate again!
Check out the linked flyer for more information. |
A lecture by Lauren Zarzar of Penn State University entitled “Color from Colorless Materials.” Lauren is an assistant professor of chemistry and an affiliate of the Materials Research Institute. The Zarzar Lab studies stimuli-responsive materials, the behavior of active matter, and laser fabrication methods to synthesize and pattern both inorganic and organic materials. https://www.zarzarlab.com/. In this lecture, Lauren explained why interference (structural) color can arise from even microscale structures (~ 100 microns) by Total Internal Reflection, such as when water droplets of different sizes form by condensation on a clean, low energy surface.
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