Chemvention is a team competition in which ACS Student Affiliates chapters compete to develop a hands-on activity geared for elementary school children for National Chemistry Week. The Grand Prize winning chapter will receive $2500 to go towards travel to a 2009 ACS National Meeting and four finalists will receive $1000 for travel to a national meeting. Winners will be announced by December 31, 2008.

Challenge: The theme for NCW 2009 is “Celebrating Chemistry—It’s Elemental” (chemistry of the elements). SAACS are being asked to develop a hands-on activity for elementary school children that showcase a “well-known” element or elements in the periodic table.

The deadline to register to compete in the 2008 Chemvention Competition has been extended to Monday, October 5. Please send an email to oca@acs.org of your intentions to participate in the competition. Rules and guidelines can be found at www.acs.org/ncw. Contest entries are due to the ACS Office of Community Activities on Friday, November 16.

FREE Resources and Materials Available for NCW Celebrations

Visit www.acs.org/ncw to order your free resources and materials to help with your NCW celebration! Celebrating Chemistry, the publication for elementary school children, balloons and much more is available for free! Limited quantities available, so be sure to place your orders soon. Allow up to 2-3 weeks delivery time.

If there are any questions about Chemvention or NCW, please contact Stacy Jones in the ACS Office of Community Activities at oca@acs.org or 800-227-5558, ext.4458.

National Chemistry Week is a community-based program
sponsored by the ACS Office of Community Activities

Nancy Bakowski
Manager, Undergraduate Programs Office
American Chemical Society
1155 16th St. NW
Washington, DC 20036
phone:202-872-6166
FAX: 202-833-7732
n_bakowski@acs.org

Some of my friends have heard of my battles with wishing to continue in the seemingly endless struggle to get into Medical school. While, many who have gotten in say this is the hardest part, Wired Magazine has recently published a snip it in the level of devotion such students may unfortunately take in order to achieve. I thought it was funny, so I’m sharing. You can visit the link at

http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/04/top-5-reasons-t.html

Upset your Prof’s didn’t leave you with enough studies to keep you busy this week? Well, here’s you chemistry answer! Good luck

Chemoku #18

Instructions:

The following nine chemical elements appear nine times each in the grid above:

Br C Cl F I N O S Se

Hint: the center row has the top nine elements by electronegativity, in order by electronegativity. (We’ve tried to arrange the grid so you CANNOT solve it without figuring out that order!)