Loretto Academy SNHS: A Sweet take on National Chemistry Week
By Chapter Advisor Jessica Salcido, SNHS Chapter Advisor
Chemistry students dressed up as elements for National Chemistry Week (from left to right: Francium, Americium, Einsteinium, Nobelium, Rubidium, Curium and Nickel).
Loretto Academy’s chapter of the Science National Honor Society celebrates its second year with a sweet rendition to National Chemistry Week (NCW), organized each year by the American Chemical Society (ACS).
Here at Loretto Academy (The Academy), our students strive to promote the importance of science as a way of thinking and express the positive and intimate impact it has in our daily lives. With this in mind, and inspired by a new tradition at The Academy, our members organized several activities to help promote the importance of chemistry beyond the classroom.
At the start of every day during NCW our students conducted research on famous women in chemistry including Marie Curie, Dorothy Hodgkin and Jennifer Doudna and shared a brief history on their life, accomplishments and contributions to the field via our live streamed morning announcements.
Throughout the week we invited professionals in the field to give presentations to our chemistry students with topics ranging from materials science, Medicine and molecular inorganic chemistry. Then on Thursday October 23, they organized a mole-tastic day of science, sweets and snuggly moles. Our members created a beautiful periodic table of elements using 118 cupcakes and ran mole adoptions. In addition to this, some of our officers conducted chemistry trivia where students, faculty and staff were quizzed on elements, rules of chemistry and the periodic table.
The proceeds from this event seek to support future SNHS events and community science outreach, such as DNA Day, Pi Day, Science Expos and service opportunities within our community. The Academy’s SNHS chapter hopes to continue inspiring young women in our school and our community.
SNHS members setting up the Periodic Table of sweets.
