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kitchen chemistry events/News

Photos from the Galway Science & Technology Festival exhibition.

The Kitchen Chemistry team.

Slime!

Liquid nitrogen frozen bubbles.

Volcano

Red cabbage indicator

29/11/2011

The Kitchen Chemistry crew had a fantastic day at the Galway Science & Technology Festival exhibition. Our 5 shows were booked out well in advance but we tried to get as many extra people in as possible. We hope that everyone who wanted to see the show, managed to get in. We had well over 500 visitors through our doors and we hope everyone enjoyed it as much as we did.

If anyone would like a copy of the booklet of experiments we were giving out, it is available here.

Details of our competition winner are available here.

We will have photos of the day up here and on our facebook page very soon.

24/10/2011

Kitchen Chemistry took part in the launch of the Galway Science & Technology Festival 2011 on the 24th of October 2011. We will be visiting primary schools throughout Galway City and County during the festival and we will also have an exciting show at the exhibition on Sunday, November 27th. More details can be found on http://www.galwayscience.ie/ and you can also book school visits there.

July/August 2011

Kitchen Chemistry has launched a new weekly column in the Galway Advertiser. This column will have a new fun experiment every week for people to try at home. We also have a competition running in conjunction with the column. All you have to do is send in a picture of you doing the experiment and you could be in a chance to win some great prizes. Check out our Column page for more information.

We now have a Facebook page up and running so make sure you "Like" us! Kitchen Chemistry at NUI, Galway.

June 2011

We'd like to thank everyone who has made Kitchen Chemistry so successful over the last 6 months. A lot of time and effort was put in and it has all paid off. In particular, we'd like to thank Prof. Paul Murphy, Judy Buckley, Michelle Hennigan and Nicole Walshe, along with all the volunteers Valerie Murphy, Mark Farrell, Hannah Smith, Noel Byrne, Edel Houton, Mary T Lohan, Eoin Larkin, Pól MacFhionnghaile, Lorna Moynihan, Joanne Martin and Christine Conroy. Thanks to all the technical staff in the School of Chemistry for helping us to get all of the equipment together and Drs Henry Curran and Leigh Jones for their support.

Hopefully the Kitchen Chemistry project will go from strength to strength over the coming years and we will get more and more people excited about Chemistry.

27/06/11

The School of Chemistry in association with Kitchen Chemistry welcomed 32 students from the Summer Science Experience program. The students got a hands on look at chemistry. The learned how reusable hand warmers work and make some of their own. They had the chance to look at Luminol in action and were treated to some exciting demonstrations including Storm in a Teacup and the Gummy bear explosion.

A fun day was had by all involved and we hope to see some of the students back doing Science in the coming years.

17/06/11

The School of Chemistry in association with Kitchen Chemistry welcomed 100 students from the Tuam School Completion programme. The students were treated to several fun demonstrations including Non-Newtonian Fluid, Iodine Snake and Storm in a Teacup.

13/06/11

Kitchen Chemistry, in association with Capturing Chemistry, recently welcomed over 100 primary school children from the Galway area to NUI, Galway. The children came to showcase their Capturing Chemistry entries and prizes were awarded in different classes. The children were then treated to a demonstration of some fun experiments,including non-newtonian fluid and iodine snake, by the Kitchen Chemistry team.

Some of the entrants were part of classes that had been visited by the Kitchen Chemistry team and we were delighted to see some of the experiments performed in their classes appearing in their Capturing Chemistry entries. The winning entries are shown below.