American Association of Chemical Teachers
Welcome to a new program, AACT, American Association of Chemical Teachers, started in collaboration with the ACS, for Chemical Teachers, Chemical Educators, and those interested in Chemical Education. This is a program that we should support as individuals and as the Sacramento ACS Section. Read more about what it is, who should get involved, how to get involved and how this helps chemical education on all educational level. Contact...
Sutterville Elementary – Science Fair Project Mentoring and Judging
Sutterville Elementary School (map) will be having their 5th grade science fair from 6PM-8PM Wednesday, April 29th and have requested volunteer judges to help them with their event which has approximately 30 projects. In addition, they have requested mentors to review (at home/online) student projects and provide feedback. The schedule for this review as follows: February 1-10 – Introduction/hypothesis Review, February 21-March 3rd...
Sacramento School of Engineering and Sciences – Middle School Science Fair Judging
The School of Engineering and Sciences will be holding their Middle School (7th and 8th grades) science fair on Tuesday, APRIL 7th from 3PM-7PM (NOTE DATE CHANGE). This will be the last event at SES for our mentoring group for the current school year. If you are interested in signing up please go to this form: http://goo.gl/forms/ba7Kw6q4BA or you can contact me (pat.wong@arb.ca.gov) for questions and additional...
The Synopsis Sac STEM Fair (Sacramento Regional Science and Engineering Fair)
The Synopsis Sac STEM fair, the region’s largest science and engineering fair, will be held this year on March 13th and 14th at Folsom high school. If you are interested in being a judge or volunteering please go to http://sacstemfair.org to sign up.
Students at DaVinci Junior High See Rainbows and Learn About Chemistry
As part of National Chemistry Week, seventh grade students at DaVinci Junior High School in Davis, CA saw rainbows everywhere they looked when students from the Sacramento City College (SCC) Chemistry Club came to visit. The scientific question posed to the students was “What is the nature of fluorescent light? Is it just like sunlight?” Each student in two of Ms. Barnes seventh grade science classes was given a paper...