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    2023 NCW ILLUSTRATED POEM CONTEST

    The Healing Power of Chemistry

    The Chicago Local Section of the American Chemical Society (ACS) is sponsoring an illustrated poem contest for students in kindergarten through 12th grade.

    Contest Deadline: October 29th @ 11:59pm

    Prizes: Theme related or gift card and certificate

    Contact for questions: Sherri Rukes [email protected]

    Submit poem to:  [email protected] or upload to: https://forms.gle/W6tJuA9sB6QMU9W97 

    Winners of the Chicago Local Section’s Illustrated Poem Contest will advance to the National Illustrated Poem Contest for a chance to be featured on the ACS website and to win prizes!

    Write and illustrate a poem using the NCW theme, “The Healing Power of Chemistry.” Your poem must be no more than 40 words and in the following styles to be considered:

    HAIKU  -  LIMERICK  -  ODE  -  ABC POEM  -  FREE VERSE  -  END RHYME  -  BLANK VERSE

     Possible topics related to the NCW 2023 theme include:

    Skin anatomy and care Pathogens
    Vaccines  Antibiotics
    Wound healing  Antibodies 
    Zoopharmacognosy Bandages
    Medications Immune system

    Entries will be judged based upon:

    • Artist Merit - Use of color, quality of drawing and layout
    • Poem Message - fun, motivational, inspiring about the yearly theme
    • Orginality Creativity - unique, clever and / or creative design
    • Neatness - free of spelling and grammatical errors

     

    Contest Rules:
    •  All poems must be no more than 40 words, and in one of the following styles to be considered: Haiku, Limerick, Ode, ABC poem, Free verse, End rhyme, and Blank verse.
    • Entries are judged based upon relevance to and incorporation of the NCW theme, word choice and imagery, colorful artwork, adherence to poem style, originality and creativity, and overall presentation.
    • All entries must be original works without aid from others. Poems must be submitted by hand on an unlined sheet of paper not larger than 11" by 14" or scanned and sent via email. Illustration may be created using crayons, watercolors, other types of paint, colored pencils, or markers. The illustration may also be electronically created by using a digital painting and drawing app on a computer, tablet, or mobile device.
    • The text of the poem should be easy-to-read and may be typed before the hand-drawn or digital illustration is added, or the poem may be written on lined paper, which is cut out and pasted onto the unlined paper with the illustration.
    • No clipart or unoriginal images can be used.
    • Only one entry per student will be accepted, all entries must include an entry form (click here).
    • If the illustration is created using a digital painting or drawing app, the name of the program must be included on the entry form.
    • All illustrated poems and/or digital representations of the poems become the property of the American Chemical Society.
    • Acceptance of prizes constitutes consent to use winners’ first name and last initial, along with the name of the ACS Local Section, on the ACS web pages and in the magazine, Chemical & Engineering News.

    • Do not place participant names on the front of your poem

                                                                                                  

    2023 CCEW ILLUSTRATED POEM CONTEST

    THE CURIOUS CHEMISTRY OF AMAZING ALGAE

    The Chicago Local Section of the American Chemical Society (ACS) is sponsoring an illustrated poem contest for students in kindergarten through 12th grade.

    Contest Deadline: April 30th @ 11:59pm

    Prizes: Theme related or gift card

    Contact: Sherri Rukes [email protected]

    Winners of the Chicago Local Section’s Illustrated Poem Contest will advance to the National Illustrated Poem Contest for a chance to be featured on the ACS website and to win prizes!

    Write and illustrate a poem using the CCEW theme, "The Curious Chemistry of Amazing Algae." Your poem must be no more than 40 words and in the following styles to be considered:

    HAIKU  -  LIMERICK  -  ODE  -  ABC POEM  -  FREE VERSE  -  END RHYME  -  BLANK VERSE

     Possible topics related to the CCEW 2023 theme include:

    • Seaweed  
    • Micro- or macro algae
    • Photosynthesis
    • Bioluminescent algae
    • Algae as food and habitat for animals
    • Consumer products from algae
    • Oxygen from algae
    • Biofuels from algae

    Entries will be judged based upon:

    • Artist Merit - Use of color, quality of drawing and layout
    • Poem Message - fun, motivational, inspiring about the yearly theme
    • Orginality Creativity - unique, clever and / or creative design
    • Neatness - free of spelling and grammatical errors

     

    Contest Rules:

    ·   All poems must be no more than 40 words, and in one of the following styles to be considered: Haiku, Limerick, Ode, ABC poem, Free verse, End rhyme, and Blank verse.

    ·   Entries are judged based upon relevance to and incorporation of the CCEW theme, word choice and imagery, colorful artwork, adherence to poem style, originality and creativity, and overall presentation.

    ·   All entries must be original works without aid from others. Poems must be submitted by hand on an unlined sheet of paper not larger than 11" by 14" or scanned and sent via email. Illustration may be created using crayons, watercolors, other types of paint, colored pencils, or markers. The illustration may also be electronically created by using a digital painting and drawing app on a computer, tablet, or mobile device.

    ·   The text of the poem should be easy-to-read and may be typed before the hand-drawn or digital illustration is added, or the poem may be written on lined paper, which is cut out and pasted onto the unlined paper with the illustration.

    ·   No clipart or unoriginal images can be used.

    ·   Only one entry per student will be accepted, all entries must include an entry form (click here).

    ·   If the illustration is created using a digital painting or drawing app, the name of the program must be included on the entry form.

    ·   All illustrated poems and/or digital representations of the poems become the property of the American Chemical Society.

    ·   Acceptance of prizes constitutes consent to use winners’ first name and last initial, along with the name of the ACS Local Section, on the ACS web pages and in the magazine, Chemical & Engineering News.

     

     

    ACS Fall Meeting Chicago Scavenger Hunt!

     

    Take a photo of yourself or your group (no more than 5 people per group) at the various sites and sounds of Chicago!  Upload your photos to Instagram or twitter:  @polychemgirl, @ACSChicago, #ACSChiScavHunt2022 and #ACSFall2022.  Up to 25 people will win fabulous prizes.  Check the Chicago Section’s Welcome Booth on Wednesday to see if you won and claim your prize.

     

    1. This Chicago icon was created from 168 substitutional alloy plates, mainly iron with Cr, Ni, Mn, Mo as well as Si, N2, P, C and S.  This alloy is used in aerospace structures, refining and textile equipment, boat fittings, and many others including great architectural artwork.  Its heavy polishing creates no visible seams.  It measures 10 by 20 by 13m and weighs about 100 tons.  This is a wonderful way to see the Chicago skyline.  
    2. It originated right here in Chicago during the World’s Fair of 1893. This enormous vertical structure, which rotated around a center axle, featured 36 gondolas capable of holding up to 60 people each—for a total capacity of 2,160 people. Almost exactly 110 years after the original attraction was demolished, a new one opened in 2016. The new attraction measures 196 feet in height and has 42 gondolas.
    3. This Chicago favorite was dedicated in honor of the soldiers of World War I. This facility was home to many events, such as motorcycle polo, the “battle of the Long Count”, hockey, football (both types) and concerts. The famous colonnades were constructed of precast and cast-in-place concrete formulated to resemble granite. The original concourses and grandstands were constructed of reinforced structural concrete. The original concrete has experienced deterioration over the years due primarily to corrosion of the embedded reinforcing steel from chlorides and carbonation.
    4. On December 2, 1942, scientists at this well-known school produced the world’s first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction beneath the West Stand of the school’s athletic stadium. This experiment, crucial to the control of nuclear fission, drove a rapid nationwide expansion of the Manhattan Project, the secret federal research and engineering program charged with producing a nuclear bomb.
    5. Alice Hamilton helped make the American workplace less dangerous. Hamilton was a pioneer who became a leading expert in chemical health and safety. ACS marked this site as a national Historic Chemical Landmark in 2002
    6. This professor was a faculty member at the University of Chicago for several decades and as department chair for 28 years! He was very involved in ACS at both local and national levels. To honor his legacy, a co-sponsor lecture in his name is given. Lecturers are named annually and are chosen in alternating years by the Section and the Chemistry Department of this school.
    7. One famous food unique to Chicago is this. This item that is consisted of beef, water, salt, corn syrup, dextrose, mustard, natural flavorings and coloring, garlic juice, sodium erythorbate, sodium nitrite, extractives of paprika and sheep casing and then placed in a bun with the edible nutritious seeds of Papaver somniferum. However, the real difference is the that these are traditionally topped with a substance containing turmeric, one that has propanethiol to create  it’s smell, a fruit that contains lycopene, a substance that contains capsaicin, C26H14F2N2O4, and a neon green sweet-sour mixture.   Find a location that one can get these and try it! But make sure you take a picture with it.
    8. This famous Chicago food is thought to have originated from Italian immigrants during the depression in Chicago. This sandwich is made up with thinly sliced substance that contains water, protein, fat, carbohydrates and nitrogen compounds with a vegetable that gets its aroma from a single chemical, 2-methoxy-3- isobutylpyrazine or a mixture that contains a substance with capsesian topped on a substances that main chemical building block is proteins and starches.  Find a place that serves this and take a photo! 
    9. James Dewar, who was a baker in Schiller Park, invented the spongy yellow cake snack in 1930. The first were made with an isoamyl acetate crème but then switched to the traditional C8H8O3 crème style. Take a picture with this spongy cake.
    10. This has been around for thousands of years, but the mass-produced, multi-flavored varieties we know today can be traced to Chicago. In 1893, he invented this with the flavors of Carvone and jackfruit-like aroma due to the presence of the chemical isoamyl acetate. Take a picture with this popping treat.
    11. One of the many new foods introduced at the Chicago World's Fair in 1893. This was the brainchild of German immigrant Frederick William Rueckheim and his brother.  This molasses candied mix then became a favorite snack at ballparks.   Today, it is still sold with prizes inside.
    12. Opened on May 30, 1930, it holds 5 million US gal of water and was for some time the largest indoor facility in the world. Today it holds about 32,000 animals.
    13. In March 2010, "Science Storms" opened in this as a permanent exhibit. This multilevel exhibit features a 12 m water vapor tornado, tsunami tank, Tesla coil, heliostat system, and a Wimshurst machine. All of these artifacts allow guests at this place to explore the physics and chemistry of the natural world.
    14. The place allows people to study the formation and the elements that were created during the hot Big Bang but was completed by stellar fusion.
    15. This building was made with the yellow substance that is composed mostly of the minerals calcite and aragonite, which are different crystal forms of calcium carbonate (CaCO3) from Lemont and survived the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. 
    16. Several of these outside of the place are made out of an alloy that is made from Copper and Tin. These depict memories of cold substitutional alloy on H2O using vulcanized rubber or famous someone that used an object made from synthetic rubber or leather with butyl rubber, nylon and polyester.
    17. There are over 400 different compounds that have been characterized in this product in addition to the macromolecules such as proteins, nucleic acids, carbohydrates and lipids. There are more than 160 of these (and counting!) in the city and surrounding suburbs.  Grad one of these cool ones if you are old enough or take a photo with someone that can!
    18. The building leans about 10 cm to the west due to its slightly asymmetrical design, placing unequal loads on its foundation. The design incorporates nine steel-unit square tubes in a 3-tube by 3-tube arrangement, with each having the footprint of 23 m × 23 m. This was the first building for which this design was used. The design allows the addition of extra height to the tower if necessary. It remains the world's tallest steel-construction building.
    19. This artwork was erected and dedicated to the city in 1967. It is created with corten steel and weighs 147t. Weathering steel refers to the chemical composition of these steels, allowing them to exhibit increased resistance to atmospheric corrosion compared to other steels. This is because the steel forms a protective layer on its surface under the influence of the weather.
    20. For more than 140 years, this hotel has been treating guests to opulent and gracious hospitality. It is said that the wife of the owner wanted to bake something for the World's Fair that wasn’t a cake, but had the texture of one and small enough to place inside of a boxed lunch and the brownie was born.  
    21. In May 1894, these bronze figurines took their place on pedestals in front of the museum. However in 2022, they were removed to be cleaned. A large crane hoisted them onto trucks, where they were secured and driven away. The figurines were set to get a statue-spa treatment. They were high-pressured steamed, checked for corrosion and given a hot wax.
    22. The 13-story granite building on State Street was constructed in stages. The current building has a mosaic vaulted ceiling dome caps a 5-story balconied atrium; a 13-story skylight atrium, and a newer atrium with a fountain in the center. The Tiffany ceiling is over 560 m2 and made up of 1.6 million pieces of iridescent glass. It is the first iridescent glass dome and it continues to be the largest glass mosaic of its kind.
    23. This is cooked in a pan instead of a baking tray. It typically is made with Flour- C4H8O4, Water- H20, Salt- NaCl, Yeast-C19H14O2, Tomatoes- C5H8, Cheese -CH3CH2CH2-COOH, Garlic- C12H21NO4S3, Oregano- C6H3CH3(OH)(C3H7) and either with oil or butter.  However, don’t forget the sausage!  This is a whopping layered concoction that rivals any New York one any day!
    24. This popping treat has been Chicago’s most wanted snack since 1949. When this is heated, the trapped water in the endosperm turns into steam, building up pressure inside the pericarp. This pressurized, super-heated steam transforms the soft starch in the endosperm into a gelatinous material.  However, their most famous flavor is a combination of sweet and salty -  sucrose with water, lactose, protein and the ripening age of curds converted into lactic acid and added salt. 
    25. This was constructed of Georgia pink marble and contains 5,700,000L of water. During a display, more than 14,000 US gallons per minute are pushed through 193 jets.  The bottom pool is 280 ft in diameter, the lower basin is 103 ft, the middle basin is 60 ft and the upper basin is 24 ft.  The security system for this is monitored from Arlington Heights.
    26. When it rains it pours for this halide headquarters or new concert venue.
    27. A coating was placed on this building because it is made from Italian marble, which is not able to handle the harsh Chicago winters.

     

    2022 CCEW Is Coming

    Check out the Poetry contest

    Celebrate CCEW 2022 is right around the corner.  ACS and the Chicago Section will be participating in Earth Week on April 17–23 this year.  This year’s theme is:  “The Buzz About Bugs: Insect Chemistry.”  Please join us in April with many fun filled activities, videos, CCEW pledge and the poetry contest.  Find out more starting on March 15th.  However, right now our 2022 Poetry Contest.  Please spread the word.  Email any questions to: [email protected] (Sherri Rukes).  We want as many K – 12 children to participate in this wonderful activity.  Write and illustrate a poem using the CCEW theme, “The Buzz About Bugs: Insect Chemistry.” Your poem must be no more than 40 words and in the following styles to be considered:

    HAIKU  -  LIMERICK  -  ODE  -  ABC POEM  -  FREE VERSE  -  END RHYME  -  BLANK VERSE

     Possible topics related to the CCEW 2022 theme include:

    • Entomology
    • Insect Bites
    • Pollination
    • Eating Insects
    • Insect Molecules
    • Pollinators

     

    Entries will be judged based upon:

     

    • Artist Merit - Use of color, quality of drawing and layout
    • Poem Message - fun, motivational, inspiring about the yearly theme
    • Orginality Creativity - unique, clever and / or creative design
    • Neatmess - free of spelling and grammatical errors

    Contest Rules:

    ·   All poems must be no more than 40 words, and in one of the following styles to be considered: Haiku, Limerick, Ode, ABC poem, Free verse, End rhyme, and Blank verse.

    ·   Entries are judged based upon relevance to and incorporation of the yearly theme (Reducing Our Footprint with Chemistry), word choice and imagery, colorful artwork, adherence to poem style, originality and creativity, and overall presentation.

    ·   All entries must be original works without aid from others. Physical drawings may be scanned or captured via camera and submitted to the online form. Illustrations may be created using crayons, watercolors, other types of paint, colored pencils, or markers.

    ·   The illustration may also be electronically created by using a digital painting and drawing app on a computer, tablet, or mobile device. If the illustration is created using a digital painting or drawing app, the name of the program must be included on the entry form.

    ·   The text of the poem should be easy to read and may be typed before the hand-drawn or digital illustration is added, or the poem may be written on lined paper, which is cut out and pasted onto the unlined paper with the illustration.

    ·   No clipart or unoriginal images can be used.

    ·   Only one entry per student will be accepted.

    ·   Students must be sponsored by a school or another sponsoring group (e.g. Homeschool Association, Boys and Girls Club, Scout Troop, 4-H, etc.).

    ·   All illustrated poems and/or digital representations of the poems become the property of the American Chemical Society.

    ·   Acceptance of prizes constitutes consent to use winners’ names, likenesses, and entries for editorial, advertising, and publicity purposes.

     

    Click on the picture to get the entry form:

       

     

    2021 CCEW Poetry Contest Winners

    Congratulations for the following students on their winning Chicago ACS Section’s CCEW poetry contest.

    3rd – 5th grade:  Akshara Kasinathan 4th grader at Barbara B Rose Elementary School

    6th – 8th grade:  Noah Cho 6th grader at Virtual Academy (Franklin Middle School)

     

    Congratulations again for our winners and thank you to all who entered the contest.  Please stay tune to the next poetry contest in the Fall for National Chemistry Week (October 17th  – 23rd, 2021):  Fast of Slow….Chemistry Makes It Go!  This event will have a focus on all things reaction rates.

     

     

    2021 CCEW Is Coming

    Reducing Our Footprint with Chemistry

    Celebrate CCEW 2021 is right around the corner.  ACS and the Chicago Section will be participating in Earth Week on April 18–24 this year.  This year’s theme is:  “Reducing Our Footprint with Chemistry.”  Please join us in April with many fun filled activities, videos, a carbon footprint pledge and a contest.  Find out more starting on March 15th.  However, one this that is open right now is the 2021 Illustrated Poetry Contest.  Please spread the word.  We want as many K – 12 children to participate in this wonderful activity.  Write and illustrate a poem using the CCEW theme, “Reducing Our Footprint with Chemistry.” Your poem must be no more than 40 words and in the following styles to be considered:

    HAIKU  -  LIMERICK  -  ODE  -  ABC POEM  -  FREE VERSE  -  END RHYME  -  BLANK VERSE

    Possible topics related to the CCEW 2021 theme include:

    • Environmental footprint                                 
    • Recycle
    • Clean air and water
    • Reduce
    • Reuse
    • Life cycle
    		  

    Entries will be judged based upon:

    • Artistic Merit - use of color, quality of drawing, design & layout

    • Poem Message - fun, motivational, inspiring about yearly theme

    • Originality Creativity - unique, clever and/or creative design

    • Neatness - free of spelling and grammatical errors

    Contest rules:

    • All poems must be no more than 40 words, and in one of the following styles to be considered: Haiku, Limerick, Ode, ABC poem, Free verse, End rhyme, and Blank verse.
    • Entries are judged based upon relevance to and incorporation of the yearly theme (Reducing Our Footprint with Chemistry), word choice and imagery, colorful artwork, adherence to poem style, originality and creativity, and overall presentation.
    • All entries must be original works without aid from others. Physical drawings may be scanned or captured via camera and submitted to the online form. Illustrations may be created using crayons, watercolors, other types of paint, colored pencils, or markers.
    • The illustration may also be electronically created by using a digital painting and drawing app on a computer, tablet, or mobile device. If the illustration is created using a digital painting or drawing app, the name of the program must be included on the entry form.
    • The text of the poem should be easy to read and may be typed before the hand-drawn or digital illustration is added, or the poem may be written on lined paper, which is cut out and pasted onto the unlined paper with the illustration.
    • No clipart or unoriginal images can be used.
    • Only one entry per student will be accepted.
    • Students must be sponsored by a school or another sponsoring group (e.g. Homeschool Association, Boys and Girls Club, Scout Troop, 4-H, etc.).
    • All illustrated poems and/or digital representations of the poems become the property of the American Chemical Society.
    • Acceptance of prizes constitutes consent to use winners’ names, likenesses, and entries for editorial, advertising, and publicity purposes.

    Submissions:

    K-12 students are asked to submit their illustrated poems directly via the new online submission form system.  The deadline for the submissions is April 25th, 2021.

    K – 2nd grade form

    3rd – 5th grade form

    6th – 8th grade form

    9th – 12th grade form

    Good Luck and we hope to have many wonderful submissions!  Any questions or comments please contact Sherri at [email protected]

    This year Chemists Celebrate Earth Week (CCEW) may look a lot like last year – different.   However, chemists all around the Chicagoland area are making sure to celebrate.  The local section has done several things to help everyone be able to celebrate CCEW.  The theme for this year is “Reducing our Footprint with Chemistry”.  All of our activities are for chemists young and old, but if you are a preK - 12 age school child there is a special reward for articpating.  Any K – 12 age child who can show the section they participated in several of these  activities by submitting photos and/or videos to [email protected] will receive a small token of doing their part in learning about sustainability and working to safe our planet which we all love.  You are able to submit your photos and videos by May 1st to receive the free gift.  

    • The Carbon Free Day Pledge – If everyone in our community pledges to do something to reduce their carbon footprint for 1 day, we can help our planet. Don’t ever think just one person doing something is insignificant.  Every little bit does help.  We would love to see all our members help reduce their carbon footprint for at least one day!
    • This is for all ages of our community.  Produce a short video on a creative way to reuse an item that you might normally throw away.
      • Your VIDEO must be:
        • Original
        • No more than 180 seconds in duration. 
        • Videos must explain - in an innovative, engaing and etertaining manner - why you picked your item, why it would be better to reuse or repurpose the iterm, how to repurpose or reuse the item and why it is better to reuse the item instead of throwing it out.  
        • Must be suitable for K - 12 children and be interesting to adults as well.
        • Script for the video 
        • Closed captioning would be appreciated
      • All videos must be submitted to [email protected] and must include the following:     
        • Videos maybe an attachment or a link to the posted video on www.youtube.com
        • Title of submission
        • Name of child 
        • School child is attending
        • Grade of child
        • Script for the video
        • Parent / gaurdian permission - By submitting an entry, you confirm that you have the right, including any required permission of individuals depicted in the video, to publicly display the video. You also confirm that you have the right to incorporate into your video and publicly perform any music accompaniment in the video.
      • No more than six submissions will be chosen (preK - 2nd grade, 3rd - 5th grade, 6th - 8th grade, high school, college, and mixture (range of age groups partipated) by the panel of general reviewers based on three parameters: scientific merit, artistic merit, and creative combination of the science and art. 
    • The Poetry Contest – PLEASE LOOK RIGHT BELOW FOR THE INFORMATION ABOUT THE POETRY CONTEST.
    • Take the carbon footprint quiz – Learn about your impact on the planet by taking either the Carbon Footprint Quiz for elementary / middle school student or the quiz for middle school and beyond. 
    • Earth Day Activities for the whole family – Try your hands at the various family activities to learn about the importance of taking care of our planet and make it more sustainable. More activities will be added as the month goes on.  Please keep checking back for more ideas.
    • Do something to help the environment - pick up garbage around your neighborhood that might be in the partways or parks, conduct a plastic bag drive for your neighborhood, etc.  Every little bit helps!

     

    REMEMBER -  Any preK – 12 age child who can show the section they participated in several of these  activities by submitting photos and/or videos to [email protected] will receive a small token of doing their part in learning about sustainability and working to safe our planet which we all love.  You are able to submit your photos and videos by May 1st to receive the free gift.  

    The Chicago ACS Section has 50 K - 12 educator kits for National Chemistry Week. These kits will have supplies and instructions for teachers to use in their classroom. Please fill out the linked form to sign up to receive a kit. Kits will be available in mid-October at several locations and come back to the site then to find links to videos about polymers, industries that use polymers and how to do the activities.

    More kits will be available throughout the year for teachers to do demonstrations and labs with their students. Please stay tune for more information about when these kits are available. 

     

     

    On behalf of the CCEW poetry contest committee, we would like to THANK everyone that entered this year.  We appreciate all of your creativity and effort.  The following K -12 students are the winners of this year’s CCEW poetry contest:

    3rd - 5th grade competition:  Akshara Kasinathan – 3rd grader at Barbara B. Rose Elementary School

    6th – 8th grade competition: James Xiao – 8th grader at Alan B. Shepard Middle School

    9th  – 12th grade competition:  Donna Tong from University of Chicago Laboratory School

     

     

     

    CCEW 2020

    2020 CCEW IDEAS ON HOW TO CELEBRATE OUR EARTH

    The ACS Chicago Local Section of the American Chemical Society (ACS) celebrates Chemists Celebrate Earth Week every year.  Even though we can’t do outreach right now, we want to give ideas on how you can help celebrate the Earth this week.

    Ideas of help celebrate Chemists Celebrate Earth Day:

    • Please check us out on our YouTube channel - Chemistry Community Outreach Chicago. We have videos featuring some simple demonstrations and experiments, challenges, and book readings. In the future, we hope to expand the selection of experiments and demonstrations, but hoping to expand to videos about local chemists and their jobs. Some of the videos found on YouTube are as follows:
    • Poetry Contest: Contest rules and entry form can be downloaded on this page.  Please note the entries are now due May 3rd by 11:59pm.  Please send entries to Sherri Rukes at [email protected]
    • Check out the activities you can do at home to teach your littles one some interesting things about chemistry. Activities can be found in a google folder.  Please remember to practice proper safety and always do experiments with an adult.  All experiments are done with supplies that you can get at grocery stores or hardware stores. A selection of activities that are found in the folder include:
      • Gaviscon Snakes
      • Milk Rainbow Experiment
      • Marbling Paper
      • A rusting ship
      • CCEW magazine both English and Spanish version
      • 2020 - CCEW - chemcatcher
      • 2020 CCEW coloring book
    • Go to some other sites that have activities and ideas for you to do with your kids:

     

     

    FREE HANDS-ON SCIENCE COMMUNITY EVENT

    Join the Chicago Local Section of the American Chemical Society for a free community event to celebrate National Chemistry Week. This event is for children of all ages. Learn about this year’s theme, Marvelous Metals and the Periodic Table, with numerous exciting hands-on activities and tours.

    When:

    OCTOBER 19th, 2019 from 10am – 3pm

    Where:

    NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY TECH BUILDING
    2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208

    Getting there:

    Transit (from loop): 

    • Metra: Go to the Ogilvie Transportation Center and take the UP-N line to Davis St/Evanston. Transfer to the 201 Bus. Get off after 6 stops, at Sheridan/Haven to reach the destination.
    • CTA: Take the northbound red line to Howard and transfer to the purple line. Get off at Noyes. Walk about 0.4 miles eastward on Noyes St to reach the destination.

     

    Driving:

    • From the loop: Follow Lake Shore Drive northbound until Sheridan Rd. Take Sheridan Rd northbound until you reach the destination.
    • From North Chicago: Take the Skokie Highway Southbound/I-94 East until seeing signs for Lake Ave. Follow Lake Ave east until Sheridan Rd. Follow Sheridan Rd southbound until you reach the destination.

    Questions, please contact Sherri Rukes at [email protected]

    We hope to see you there!

    NCW 2019 Illustrated Poetry Contest

    Congradulations to the winner Monica Busza Grade 12 Lyons Township High School

    2019 Winning Poem

     

    The Chicago Local Section of the American Chemical Society (ACS) is sponsoring an illustrated poetry contest for students in Kindergarten through 12th grade. Winners of the Local Section’s contest will advance to the National Illustrated Poetry Contest for a chance to be featured on the ACS website and to win more prizes!

    Contest Deadline: Monday October 28th 2019

    Prizes will be awarded to the winning entry in four age groups

    THEME = "Marvelous Metals"

    Poetry Contest 
    		    

     

     

     

    Flyer:

    		  
      2019_ncw_poem_contest_flyer  
    Poetry Contest Entry Form:  
      2019_ncw_poem_contest_entry_form.pdf  
         

    Please email poetry contest entries to: [email protected]; Deadline: October 28, 2019

    Community Activities Subcommittee

    The Community Activities Subcommittee organizes, arranges, and participates in Section outreach events in the greater Chicago area.  Two of the feature events are Chemists Celebrate Earth Week (CCEW) and National Chemistry Week (NCW).  To support these outreach events, the subcommittee also judges the poetry contests and other contests.  Some of the other events that the subcommittee supports are: DuPage Expo, GEMS programming, Scouts programs, K – 12 school events, and many other contests and events.

    Community Activities Committee Chair

    Sherri Conn Rukes
    Libertyville High School

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