This year the Chemical Society of Washington (CSW) partnered with several groups to bring chemistry activities to the community during Rockville Science Day for Chemists Celebrate Earth Week (CCEW). Up on the 3rd floor of the Science Building, CSW worked with the Montgomery College STEM Ed Club, the Rockville Chemistry […]
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Join CSW in Chemists Celebrate Earth Week (CCEW) by volunteering at the 35th annual Rockville Science Day. This event is held by the Rockville Science Center. Each year this free event features a variety of science and technology-related exhibits, activities, games and demos. This year CSW will be hosting activities […]
Project SEED is a program designed to provide a paid summer internship in the chemical sciences to students with demonstrated financial need. Students selected to take part of this internship are eligible for college scholarships. Additionally, CSW encourages use of public transit to get to your internship (and other programming […]
The Chemical Society of Washington (CSW) is pleased to announce the call for nominations for the Leo Schubert Memorial Award to recognize an outstanding teacher of high school chemistry in the Washington, D.C. area. The award was established in 1979 to honor Dr. Leo Schubert (1916-1978), a chemistry professor at […]
Huge thanks to the Committee on Minority Affairs and the Outreach Committee for bringing the Cloud Bubble to life at the Mad Spooky Expo this Saturday October 18th!
This year chemists across the world will celebrate National Chemistry week from October 19-25. The theme this year is “The Hidden Life of Spices”. CSW has three ways you can help us celebrate. Volunteers with us on October 18th, 2025 The Spooky Mad Science Expo is celebrating its 10th year! […]
CSW is kicking off our illustrated poem contest and would love for you to participate. In celebration of National Chemistry Week, students are invited to submit an illustrated poem around the theme of “The Hidden Life of Spices”. Local submissions are judged based by grade and local winners advance to […]
The Chemical Society of Washington (CSW) celebrated “Chemists Celebrate Earth Week” during the annual Rockville Science Day event on Sunday, April 27, at Montgomery College, Rockville Campus. CSW partnered with the Montgomery College Chemistry Department and the STEM ED club to host activities for ~250 kids and their families. Activities […]
The Chemistry Society of Washington is pleased to announce we are hosting Project SEED for another year! We will be welcoming students from across the DC metro area to participate in a paid summer research internship at one of our local host sites. We had several excited students apply; however, […]
This past spring, the Chemical Society of Washington welcomed over 140 local high school students into the official reboot of the Chemistry Olympiad competition. The co-coordinators (Lauren Ragle, Eva-Marie Rudler, and Savannah Shumaker) worked diligently to communicate with local high school teachers who already had students sign up for the […]