High School Students Participated in Chemistry Olympiad
Held at Sacramento City College, the local chemistry olympiad is complete and was a success. There were 31 total students who participated: 19 from Sheldon High School 9 from Mira Loma High School 1 from Franklin High School 1 from Vista Del Lago High School 1 from Davis High School 1 from Woodland Christian School Please congratulate all of the students that attended. The following students qualified for the National Chemistry...
SCC Chemistry Club at Club Day
This year at Club Day, SCC Chemistry Club wowed the general student population at SCC once again with the ACS booth. The main attraction of the booth this year was the “Blue Bottle Reaction”, which is known for its color changing properties, going from blue to clear, and back to blue if shaken. To make this solution, Sodium Hydroxide and Glucose were dissolved in water with a little bit of Methylene Blue, which is an...
Students at DaVinci Junior High See Rainbows and Learn About Chemistry
As part of National Chemistry Week, seventh grade students at DaVinci Junior High School in Davis, CA saw rainbows everywhere they looked when students from the Sacramento City College (SCC) Chemistry Club came to visit. The scientific question posed to the students was “What is the nature of fluorescent light? Is it just like sunlight?” Each student in two of Ms. Barnes seventh grade science classes was given a paper...
SCC Chemistry Club News Fall 2014
The SCC Chemistry Club is a student run chapter of the ACS and serves all Sacramento City College students who are interested in chemistry. The club does community outreach at nearby schools, field trips to chemistry-related attractions, and projects of all kinds. So far, the club has taken a field trip to the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, done glass etching, and executed a liquid nitrogen demo for Earth Day at SCC. The club...