Kids and Chemistry and National Chemistry Week

Don Sartor and Dallas Wright with Crushing Cans activity; DNA stage right

Kids and Chemistry helped celebrate National Chemistry Week at the Saint Louis Science Center, Saturday, October 25. Kids and Chemistry had three tables: • Enzymes for Digestion and Cleaning, led by Sheryl Loux, • Starch Scavenger Hunt! testing which foods and materials contain starch, led by Chris Glass, and • Crushing Cans! exploring states of matter, led by Don Sartor. A DNA structure poster was displayed along with hands-on models of DNA.

Budding little chemist Christian Hale, testing for starch in foods, is taking this very seriously!

Approximately 400 parents and kids participated with us at our tables. Kids and Chemistry is a program sponsored by the St Louis Section–ACS and coordinated by Sheryl J Loux (sjloux@gmail.com). A big “Thank You” from Sheryl to volunteers Susan Wiediger, Michael Ontl, Dallas Wright, Margaret Allen, Don Sartor, and Chris Glass.

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