Get involved in ACS!
MN-ACS
runs monthly meetings and volunteer opportunities. Share your
professional skills and your enthusiasm for chemistry. Meet other
chemists and broaden your horizons. Click on our events calendar to see
what's coming up!
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always planning for future events. If your organization would be
interested in hosting an ACS event, or if you'd like to suggest a
speaker, a topic, or a location for one of our talks, please e-mail the
chair-elect (see "Contacts" page.)
If you have an item you'd like to list on the Events Calendar, please send full details using the form on the Contacts page. Please note that to submit an item you must be a member of MN-ACS or an affiliated organization. "Spam" events or events not judged to be of interest to our membership will be deleted.
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Call for Volunteers!This is an emergency announcement...
100 more judges and 50 more volunteers are needed for the Twin Cities Regional Science Fair on Friday, February 12th at the University of Minnesota Field House, 1800 University Avenue SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455. We provide FUN SCIENCE, FOOD, and PARKING!
WANTED: Judges and volunteers for fun Twin Cities Regional Science Fair
Fun science - Food - Parking all provided
We need volunteers and judges for:
1.Judging the oral presentations of research papers
(Friday, Feb. 12: noon - 5 pm)
2.Registration volunteers Friday,
Feb. 12, noon - about 5 pm
3.Judging both high school and middle school projects,
Friday, Feb. 12, 4:00-9 or 9:30 pm
4.Data entry and forms sorting on
Friday, Feb. 12 from about 4:00-10:00 p.m.
5.See "Volunteers" page on our website for more ways for you or a friend to help!
Register on our website at www.tcrsf.org. Click on "Judges" or "Volunteers"
and then on "Judge/Volunteer Registration" and create a Judge/Volunteer user name and password. Please register and you are good to go. Judges and volunteers will have both dinner and parking provided. This science fair will be the best one yet if we have your help! Invite a colleague!
If you have any questions, please email judging@tcrsf.org or call 763-577-1400.
Thank you for your support encouraging science education!
Timara Underbakke
TCRSF co-director <fairdirector@tcrsf.org> 763-577-1400 www.tcrsf.org
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Are you part of the ACS Network yet? In 2010, MN-ACS will be transitioning from our old e-mail system (dating back more than a decade) and beginning to use a new system hosted and developed by the national ACS. You do not need to be a dues-paying member of ACS to sign up, and the system will allow much better communications than we've had previously.
If you haven't already, go to the ACS main web site and create a (free) account. You may have already done this if you've paid your dues on-line.
Go to http://www.acs.org/network and locate MNACS at https://communities.acs.org/groups/minnesota
When you get on, be sure to edit your e-mail preferences as desired. The default settings will send you an e-mail for every announcement.
A training on this site will be held at an upcoming MNACS meeting - stay tuned!
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Graduate Student Travel Grants
Travel grants sponsored by the MN Section of the ACS are available to grad students to attend the national ACS meeting in San Francisco (Mar 21-25).
There will be two awards at $500 each. For an application, please copy and paste the following link into your browser:
http://nmr.chem.umn.edu/GradTravelGrantApp.doc
(There is not a direct link on the webpage.)
Applications are due to Letitia by noon on Feb 15.
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Our Mission
The mission of the Minnesota Section of the American Chemical Society is to provide support to local chemists in their professional development and in their efforts to encourage the advancement of local chemical enterprises.
Our Vision
The Minnesota Section will initiate, develop and support programs that provide members opportunities for professional development and networking; encourage science education - especially chemistry - at all levels; educate the public regarding the importance of chemistry; and provide a forum for interaction between Industry, Government and Academia at the local level.
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