Carus conducts chemistry shows

Carus Corporations annual National Chemistry Week tour recently hit 16 schools, bringing science demonstrations to more than 2,000 students.

I want them to get more experiments and come back again, said Austin Robinson, an eighth-grader at Northbrook Middle School in Mendota. Im thinking I might want to do something with science now.

The demonstrations featured chemical reactions that foamed, fizzed, steamed, changed color and produced light.

More than 40 Carus volunteers visited middle schools in Ottawa, Streator, Utica, LaMoille, La Salle, Lostant, Mendota, Oglesby, Peru, Sheridan, Spring Valley and Tonica during National Chemistry Week, which ran Oct. 19-25. The week was established by the American Chemical Society. Carus extended the "week" to more than three weeks, in order to accommodate as many schools as possible. For the first time, Carus also is going to bring a chemistry demonstration later this month to Horizon House in Peru.

Our goal is to show kids that learning can be fun. We want them to show up to science class energized after our visit, knowing that chemistry makes a huge difference in our world, and that local career opportunities in chemistry are waiting for them, said Sean Davenport, Carus technology development manager.

Kegan Pakula, Carus' communications coordinator, spoke of the company's history of public education.

Chemistry demonstrations are a long-standing Carus tradition. Carus turns 100 next year, and this is just one of the ways we like to say thank you, each year, to the region Carus has called home for the last century," Pakula observed.

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Carus conducts chemistry shows