hey guys,

Sorry for the bother, but as I am learning this web site as we go there tends to be hiccups. Turns out I wasn’t saving new subscribers to the CSV file and that might of been why some people were not receiving emails. I’ve added everybody to the CSV file and am now testing the system to ensure I’ve figured my mistake. Please send me a confirmation of this email, so that I can check everybody off the list who is receiving email, and chase down any loose ends.

Thanks for your cooporation have a nice weekend,

Eckhard Koehler

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

Students and Sponsors,

It is about time for the Dazzling Demos by the world class experts Marv Lang and Don Showalter.  They will be coming to Metropolitan State College for their presentation entitled “Boiling Cold…Freezing Hot” on Sept. 26.  There will be a social time at 5:00 PM and dinner at 6:00 PM in the Tivoli, Room 440.  Our dinner will be a buffet with chicken parmesan and stuffed shells. The demos will be in Science, Room 119 at 7:00 P.M.  Cost of the dinner for college students is just $5.00 and $15 for faculty and guests.  We want to pack the house for these outstanding presenters.  This is one program you will not want to miss.  So, please pass this information on to all of the students and faculty at your campuses and please encourage them to attend. Reservations are due to me by Friday, Sept. 19   cgabel@mscd.edu This will also be an opportunity for you to present your research at a poster session during the social time.  Thanks,Dr. Gabel

Hey Folks,

I apologize about any inconvenient excess email deliveries. As it turns out I’m not a computer science major, but BIO CHEM, so I’m still learning this program and unfortunately when changes are made emails are sent, and one more than one changes is made more than one email is sent. However, I changed a setting so that only once a day emails will be sent when anything is added to the site. Let’s hope this cuts down on the excess. Have a good semester!

Cheers,

Eckhard

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Hello Everyone!

I am posting a schedule for the sale of the lab manuals for the fall chem courses.

Each day there are time slots for the start of each lab section.  I hope I got them all correct, If you notice anything wrong please correct me.

This schedule is for the first week.  I thought the people that were available could actually take the books to the classrooms directly on the first day, and that we could also man the stockroom for some time slots.

I could not fill each slot with chem club members, so my wife Rupa, volunteered to help out for a couple of days.  She is a Metro student, but an English major of all things.  I told her we would give her an honorary Chem Club Membership for the day, and she seemed to accept that.

If any other chem club members can make some time to sell in the stockroom for a one or a two hour slot, it would indeed help. Please let me know, and I will modify the schedule.

I will also post signs on all of the doors of the chem labs early Monday morning, announcing to students that we will be selling their lab manuals both in their classes and in the stock room during certain hours.  It will be important to sell in the stockroom as well since not all students will have cash or checkbook available during their first class period.

Any Chem Club members selling the manuals could also make a friendly announcement to the classroom they are selling in, something about joining the chem club.

I look forward to seeing you all soon.

 James…

Hello Everyone,

Hope Summer is going good.  I just wanted to post a message about Chemistry Club Meetings.  We will have the same schedule as before.  Wednesdays & Fridays,  every other week.

June’s Meetings:

Wed June 4th 8:00 AM

Friday June 6th 1:00 PM

Wed June 18th 8:00 AM

Friday June 20th 1:00 PM

July’s Meetings:

Wed July 2nd 8:00 AM

Wed July 16th 8:00 AM

Friday July 18th 1:00 PM

Wed July 30th 8:00 AM

Meetings will be in the P-Chem Lab SI 312. Bring ideas of fun things to do! Hope to see some of you there!

James

Club,

Chem Day is coming up fast!  Those of you who will be contributing equations to the “balancing equations” contest and/or participating in Chem Day,  can we have a short meeting?  I’ve volunteered to type up and lay out your quiz document, if you’d like me to.

Your contest will be held in 306 and I’ll be next door running the periodic table contest in 304.  Donuts and coffee will be served up in the morning, contests start at 8 am and usually run until noon or 1.  Lunch is free for participants.

I’m available Wednesday morning, Thursday morning, and Thursday afternoon to chat with any and all of you.

Dr. Ball

There’s a local section meeting at Regis coming up:

Date:  Monday, April 14

Place:  Regis University, Adult Learning Center (Entrance 4 off
Lowell), Mountain View Room

Topic:  New Methods for Trace Evidence Analysis in Forensic Science

Speaker:  Robert Blackledge, an expert in forensic science

Reservations due Monday, April 7 to Sue Drexler  sdrexler@regis.edu
303-964-3693

Entree Choices:  Dijon marinated chicken breast, stuffed pork loin, or
vegetarian

Times:  Social 5:00 P.M.   Dinner 6:00 P.M.   Presentation:  7:00 P.M.

Cost:  Students pay only $5 for dinner.

Dr. Ball

Folks,

Chem Day is coming!  It happens on April 18th.  Registration of visiting contestants starts at 7:30 am, and contests start at 8 am.  Lunch will be provided by the Chem Department for student volunteers, and there’s usually some breakfast stuff (donuts, etc.) in the Department office for the early birds.

Dr. Ball