Extracurricular Activities
Teachers should seek out opportunities for their students to connect classroom learning to the world around them.聽
By extending the focus of chemistry beyond the classroom, teachers can provide students with enriching activities designed to ignite students' interests and imagination.
ChemClubs
Teachers should seek out opportunities for their students to connect classroom learning to the world around them.聽
ACS ChemClubs are high school chemistry clubs that extend the focus of chemistry beyond the classroom. Teachers can provide students with enriching activities designed to ignite students' interests and imagination.
National Chemistry Week and Chemists Celebrate Earth Week
ACS local sections, schools, businesses, and individuals are invited to organize or participate in events in their communities with a common goal: to promote the value of chemistry in everyday life.
Chemistry Olympiad
The Chemistry Olympiad competition brings together the world's most talented high school students to test their knowledge and skills in chemistry, resulting in an International Chemistry Olympics.聽
Learn more about the exam聽and how your students can qualify. Help your students prepare with a library of聽past exams聽spanning nearly 20 years.聽聽
ChemMatters Magazine
ChemMatters聽is a聽magazine聽that helps high school students find connections between chemistry and the world around them. Published since 1983 by the ACS Education Division,聽ChemMatters聽engages students with real-world applications of scientific concepts they learn in the classroom.
Teachers may also consider encouraging students to聽apply to one of the many summer research programs聽that provide students with academic enrichment and聽real-world experience, where they work alongside聽scientists in a laboratory. Project SEED is a summer聽research program sponsored by ACS for economically聽disadvantaged students.聽
Other research opportunities are聽offered through local colleges or universities, in addition聽to government research facilities. Consider investigating the following聽organizations for opportunities for your students:
- (RSI) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
- (SEAP)
- (ASEE)
- (SIP) at the National Institutes of Health
Students who are interested in pursuing chemistry at the聽college level can look for chemistry-related scholarships.聽ACS offers the ACS Scholars Program, which provides up聽to $5,000 to students from underrepresented minority聽groups who are interested in studying chemistry.
is under the umbrella of ACS and has resources and聽support for everything mentioned in these guidelines.
