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De-skunking Video Wins ‘Everyday Chemistry’ Contest
by Linda Wang
August 26, 2013
| A version of this story appeared in
Volume 91, Issue 34
Sally Mitchell, a chemistry teacher at East Syracuse Minoa High School, in Syracuse, N.Y., is the winner of the first annual “Everyday Chemistry” video contest, sponsored by C&EN, the American Chemical Society Office of Public Affairs, the ACS Office of International Activities, and ACS President Marinda Li Wu.
Mitchell’s video explains the chemistry behind de-skunking a dog, an idea inspired by her own experiences ridding her dog of the foul odor using a mixture of hydrogen peroxide, baking soda, and soap. “I just love getting the message out about chemistry,” she says. And videos offer her a new tool to connect with her students and the general public, notes Mitchell, who is a Chemistry Ambassador for ACS and the 2009 recipient of the society’s James Bryant Conant Award in High School Chemistry Teaching.
In fact, videos are a great way to share chemistry with nonscientists, says Nancy Blount, assistant director of society communications in the Office of Public Affairs.
Entries in the video contest were required to be less than two minutes and feature either a favorite chemistry tip or the chemistry behind an everyday phenomenon. The competition highlights the importance of ACS’s Chemistry Ambassadors and celebrates C&EN’s 90th anniversary. Submissions came from around the U.S., as well as from Malaysia and South Africa.
Mitchell will receive a trip to the fall ACS national meeting in Indianapolis, where she will be recognized at C&EN’s anniversary event featuring Alton Brown.
Other winners of the video contest include Kayla Briët, a high school student from La Mirada, Calif., who took second place for her video featuring fun facts about household items, and Tien Nguyen, a chemistry graduate student at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, who took third place for her rap video on baking bread.
Honorable mentions went to Chad Jones, a chemistry graduate student at Brigham Young University, for his video on how vision works, and Jason W. Ribblett, assistant professor of chemistry at Ball State University, for his video on how diapers work.
The winning videos will be featured on www.bytesizescience.com.
Announcements of ACS news may be sent to acsnews.cen@acs.org.
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