The Pathways to Science scholar program offers three five-day workshops on chemistry to high school students during the summer.
Summer Programs
The future of sustainable energy is based in electrochemistry. By building their own batteries, redox pairs, solar cells and more, students will learn about the science behind how electrical energy is applied.
One module covers battery chemistry, how to make a battery and how it works. Another module looks at redox properties of elements and coating an object with a layer of metals (or electroplating). Students learn to use electricity to do chemical reactions (electric catalysis), and they do electrolysis of water. They build dye-sensitized solar cells and measure the voltage and current generated by them.
2. Chromatography: A Chemist’s Best Friend
Gas chromatography is an analytical chemistry technique widely used in academic and industrial labs. This course teaches how to perform gas chromatography and apply the technique towards real-world problems in sustainable chemistry!
3. What Powers the World? The Chemistry of Energy
Where does the energy we use come from? Through building batteries and other experiments, students explore the science behind the different ways energy is captured, stored, and used.
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All of our outreach events and programs (except Nitrogen Fixers) are run through Pathways to Science. Check their calendar and website.