Posted: Wednesday, October 20, 2010 9:13 pm

The Student Members of the American Chemical Society (SMACS) chapter at the University of Tennessee at Martin will sponsor a clinic Nov. 6 to help area Boy Scouts earn the chemistry merit badge.
The activity is part of the National Chemistry Week celebration. Registration deadline is Oct. 27.
SAACS members will have all the materials ready for the Boy Scouts to perform the experiments needed to meet the merit badge requirements. The clinic gets under way at 8:30 a.m. in the Joseph E. Johnson Engineering and Physical Sciences Building on the UT Martin campus. The clinic will conclude about 12:30 p.m.
Scoutmasters and/or parents may register their Boy Scouts by calling (731) 881-7454. Registration also is available by fax at (731) 881-7443; e-mail at saacs@utm.edu; or by mail at UT Martin SMACS, De-partment of Chemistry, UT Martin, Martin, TN 38238. Scouts will be charged $5 for light refreshments, the merit badge manual and materials on their arrival.
To register, include the name of each Boy Scout, his scoutmaster’s name and his troop number.
Under the leadership of UT Martin SMACS students, scouts will perform experiments related to pollution, chromatography, determining vitamin C in juices, determining household acids and bases, corrosion and its prevention and more.
For more information, contact the UT Martin SMACS adviser, Dr. S.K. Airee, at (731) 881-7454; or the Department of Chemistry office at 881-7450.

Published in The Messenger 10.20.10