National Chemistry Week 2024

2024 NCW banner

The ACS sponsors an Illustrated Poem Contest
every year for
National Chemistry Week.

The 2024 theme is:

“Picture Perfect Chemistry”
which will have a focus on
Photography and Imaging.

NCW will be celebrated 20-26 October 2024,
Charlie Guttendorf of Bucknell University is the local National Chemistry Week coordinator.

The Susquehanna Valley Section is once again collecting illustrated poems for this year’s event. Please contact Charlie Guttendorf at cg029@bucknell.edu if you have questions or to make a submission.

Submissions should be sent to:

Charlie Guttendorf
NCW Coordinator
1 Dent Dr.
Bucknell Univertsity
Lewisburg, PA 17837
570.577.3258

or by email to cg029@bucknell.edu

by the deadline of
Sunday, October 20th

Please see the rules and a submission form for the contest.

Congratulations to the 2022 winners:

The 9-12 winner is Faith from Honesdale High School

The 6-8 winner is Kailey from Drums Middle School

The 3-5 winner is Garrison from Upper Dauphin Area Elementary School
The K-2 winner is Blaise from Drums Elementary.
Congratulations Blaise on winning second place in the National Poster Contest! -->

Past Winners




Our Academic Partners

Bloomsburg University Bucknell University King's College Lycoming College Marywood University Misericordia University Penn State Hazleton Penn State Scranton Penn State Wilkes-Barre Susquehanna University University of Scranton Wilkes University

About

The Susquehanna Valley Section of the American Chemical Society began in 1958 and serves eight counties in PA:

Lycoming
Union
Snyder
Northumberland
Montour
Columbia
Luzerne
Lacawanna
 
The section provides services for the chemistry professionals, undergraduate chemistry students, and high school students of the area.

Contact

If you need more information or would like to submit information, E-mail our Local Section Webmaster at webmaster@svs-acs.org or the National ACS Webmaster.

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