Outreach: Empowering High School Girls to Pursue STEM

  • girls at table with plates of candy
    Color chromatography workshop
  • Hands using pipette to drop water onto candy
    Color chromatography workshop
  • National Organization of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers Bag
  • girls at table
    Highschool participants
  • lady pointing to book with girls looking on
    Graduate student giving lab tour
  • Lady in front of chemical fume hood
    Graduate student showing girls lab equipment
  • Lady handing girls test tubes
    Graduate student preparing students for an experiment with strawberries
  • girls looking into test tubes
    Students experimenting with crushed strawberries
  • Woman leaning on a counter talking to girls
    Graduate student explaining research in a lab
  • Girl looking into microscope while other girls watch
    Student looking into microscope
  • Woman talking to group of girls by a lab bench
    Graduate student explaining research in a lab

Chemistry graduate students volunteered in a Girls Advancing STEM Conference to inspire high school girls to pursue academic and professional futures in STEM. Members of the Davis, Miller, and Johnson Labs gave lab tours and shared their research. Members of the Yale student chapter of the National Organization of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers led a chemistry workshop on color chromatography with candy.