Saturday Science Club
Are you a GCSE/A-level/BTEC or mature student interested in exploring the chemical sciences?
Since December 2012, I and my reasearch and undergraduate students have been passionate about sharing chemistry to young people of Greater Manchester and Lancashire in the settings of the teaching laboratories of the university. Our created 'Saturday Chemistry Club' was born out of accident but soon grew into an activity that we believe is unique in the country.
Sponsored by BASF Chemicals, I and my postgraduate students have opened-up the university’s chemistry teaching laboratories to GCSE Yr 9,10,11 and A-level/BTEC Yr 12,13 students to promote and enthuse all of the merits and delights of chemistry! Practical classes covering the strands of the chemical sciences (biochemical, analytical, inorganic and organic) are held on a rota basis between 10 am and 1 pm on selected Saturday mornings. There is no charge to attend at all and this is an unique chance for young people to discover what the chemical sciences are in their function and gain valuable laboratory skills. For Yr12/13 students applying to The University of Salford for Biochemistry, Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Science in the 2016/17 UCAS cycle, an UCAS discount can be applied with three attendances to the Club (please complete the contact box below or email s.b.rossington@salford.ac.uk for more details on this). In addition, the university is now re-intoducing BSc(Hons) Chemistry from September 2017 which students may find of appeal. Brief details of the club are as follows:
• Steven Rossington is CRB checked and will provide a CRB certificate to all attending.
• Labs run from 10 – 12 noon/1pm in the university’s Cockcroft Building.
• Labs to be run on the following dates: from November 2017 the Club is re-commnecing it's duties until a period into 2018 (which will represent my departure from academia).
• Labs are practical sessions from our first year lab portfolio and cover our Biomedicine, Biochemistry, Medicinal Chemistry, Pharmaceutical Science programmes and split between biochemistry, inorganic chemistry, physical chemistry, organic chemistry practical sessions.
Any interested student and/or parent is asked to contact me via the box below form where a reply will be made. All persons are then asked to download the 'Slack' app which will be used as a communication tool for myself, my demonstrators and all participating communities of the group.
Since December 2012, I and my reasearch and undergraduate students have been passionate about sharing chemistry to young people of Greater Manchester and Lancashire in the settings of the teaching laboratories of the university. Our created 'Saturday Chemistry Club' was born out of accident but soon grew into an activity that we believe is unique in the country.
Sponsored by BASF Chemicals, I and my postgraduate students have opened-up the university’s chemistry teaching laboratories to GCSE Yr 9,10,11 and A-level/BTEC Yr 12,13 students to promote and enthuse all of the merits and delights of chemistry! Practical classes covering the strands of the chemical sciences (biochemical, analytical, inorganic and organic) are held on a rota basis between 10 am and 1 pm on selected Saturday mornings. There is no charge to attend at all and this is an unique chance for young people to discover what the chemical sciences are in their function and gain valuable laboratory skills. For Yr12/13 students applying to The University of Salford for Biochemistry, Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Science in the 2016/17 UCAS cycle, an UCAS discount can be applied with three attendances to the Club (please complete the contact box below or email s.b.rossington@salford.ac.uk for more details on this). In addition, the university is now re-intoducing BSc(Hons) Chemistry from September 2017 which students may find of appeal. Brief details of the club are as follows:
• Steven Rossington is CRB checked and will provide a CRB certificate to all attending.
• Labs run from 10 – 12 noon/1pm in the university’s Cockcroft Building.
• Labs to be run on the following dates: from November 2017 the Club is re-commnecing it's duties until a period into 2018 (which will represent my departure from academia).
• Labs are practical sessions from our first year lab portfolio and cover our Biomedicine, Biochemistry, Medicinal Chemistry, Pharmaceutical Science programmes and split between biochemistry, inorganic chemistry, physical chemistry, organic chemistry practical sessions.
Any interested student and/or parent is asked to contact me via the box below form where a reply will be made. All persons are then asked to download the 'Slack' app which will be used as a communication tool for myself, my demonstrators and all participating communities of the group.
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For those wishing to attend, please find the university's campus map. Events are run in Cockcroft Building (number 18 on page 2 of the map).
Saturday 11th October 2014. Fourty two students join us for an organic synthesis for the preparation of N-acetyl-o-toluidine.
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Saturday 8th November 2014. Thirty four students join us for a physical chemistry practical, the photometric study of an equilibrium.
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Saturday 15th November 2014. Twenty four students join us for a biochemistry chemistry practical, electrophoresis of amino acids.
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