[Arizona-students] Fw: [nabs-l] Please distribute Widely-Opportunity for Intensive Chemistry Training

[Arielle Silverman]

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Chemistry Training


> Here is a great opportunity for blind high school students to get a jump 
> start in chemistry and work with a blind chemistry professor.
>
> Regards,
> Mark Riccobono
>
>
> Intensive Summer Laboratory Chemistry Course
> for vision-impaired high school students
>
> The University Center for Excellence in Science and Mathematics Education
> at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo will sponsor the first annual hands-on
> Intensive Summer Laboratory Chemistry course for five vision-impaired high
> school students, August 1-12, 2005. The course will be held in San Luis
> Obispo, and will be taught by Dr. Dennis Fantin a Cal Poly chemistry
> instructor and practicing biophysicist. Dr. Fantin, himself blind, and his
> students have developed procedures and techniques which make the chemistry
> lab a rich environment for vision impaired students to conduct and control
> their own experimental work.
>
> We will use a discovery-based teaching approach in which participants will
> be encouraged to learn about chemical phenomena by doing their own
> experimental work and making their own observations and measurements. The
> course will be challenging, but the environment will be stimulating and
> very supportive. In the laboratory, Cal Poly chemistry students will
> provide one-on-one assistance to course participants.
>
> During the course, we will: explore physical properties of matter such as
> mass, volume, density, solubility and specific heat capacity; learn about
> the nature of acid-base equilibria, and oxidation-reduction reactions;
> study the gas laws, and thermochemistry; and investigate some facets of
> organic chemistry. Along the way, we will build a primary battery, evolve
> hydrogen gas through the reaction of an active metal with hydrochloric
> acid, titrate solutions using an audio pH meter, observe the differences
> between exothermic and endothermic reactions by touch, and synthesize
> esters noting the extreme differences in odor between these compounds and
> their associated starting materials.
>
> The days will be devoted to work in the laboratory and the evenings and
> weekend will be spent relaxing and doing recreational activities such as
> tandem bicycle rides, and walks on the beach. During the course, students
> will live in one of the Cal Poly dormitories and receive their meals on
> campus. The University will provide 24-hour supervision, and a licensed
> mobility instructor will provide physical guidance to students.
>
> Course tuition is $500., which covers all expenses except transportation 
> to
> and from San Luis Obispo. Full scholarship assistance based on financial
> need is available upon request.
> contact:
> Dr. Dennis Fantin, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
> California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo 93407
> Email: <mailto:dfantin at calpoly.edu>dfantin at calpoly.edu 
> Phone:
> (805)756-1688
>
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