After performing “A Pollutant’s Tale” to over 2 000 people outside of Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网, it was decided that it was time to perform to the people within the Department of Chemistry and other affiliated Departments at Rhodes.
The Department of Chemistry has been collaborating with Bristol ChemLabS (www.chemlabs.bris.ac.uk) since 2008, and has adapted their version of “A Pollutant’s Tale” to suit South African audiences.?
“A Pollutant’s Tale” hopes to make audiences more aware about the gases in our atmosphere and climate change and its long-term effects through exciting demonstrations.
There is never a dull moment, with experiments of freezing eggs with liquid nitrogen, colour changes with dry ice (solid carbon dioxide) to the ever-popular explosion of hydrogen balloons.
Last week staff of the departments of Chemistry, Pharmacy, Computer Science and Information Systems and their families attended “A Pollutant’s Tale” as a start to the school holidays. Children as young as four years old to teenagers and many adults were entertained by Ryan Young and Temitope Olomola, both PhD students in the Chemistry Department.
Afterwards the students said that it was the most interactive crowd they have had. Despite the fact that many of the children were very young, they are very knowledgeable about topic.
After “A Pollutant’s Tale” everyone went to the laboratory where they had a hands-on workshop of making slime. Parents got involved with their little ones and the unaccompanied little ones were helped by postgraduates and staff of Pharmacy and Chemistry.
“It was great to show the families of staff what their parents are involved in here in this building,” said Mrs Joyce Sewry who organised the afternoon’s activities. She also thanked all the students who had given up many hours during the year to communicate science to the public. They have done this all on a volunteer basis.
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