 In 2008, the Midland Section held a Science Café "Chemistry, Food, and You" on Saturday, November 22, in partnership with the Grace A. Dow Memorial Library (Midland, MI), Girl Scouts, and Lactation Management Services. The event was held for two hours in the Cup & Chaucer café in the public library. Posters at the library entrance directed library patrons to the café and served as additional advertisement. The following activity stations were available throughout the event:
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Nova Science Now DVD featuring "Lab Meat?" a short episode about progress in making synthetic meat.
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Information booth about breast milk, featuring a poster titled "The Chemistry of Breast Milk," which compared the chemical composition of breast milk and baby formula. Photocopies of the C&EN article about breast milk from the September 29, 2008 issue were available for attendees to take home. Sue Clark, a certified lactation consultant from Lactation Management Services, one of our partners for the Science Café, staffed this booth and was available for discussions.
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The library, another of our partners, created a display of cookbooks from the library's book stock.
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ACS assembled a series of food-related demos and the Girl Scouts, another of our partners, made posters for each station and conducted the demos, which ran concurrently throughout the entire event.Ø Free coffee (provided by the library) and free snacks of granola bars, cereal bars, and nuts (provided by ACS) were available for volunteers and attendees throughout the day.
The booths experienced a steady stream of visitors over the two-hour period; we estimate attendance of ~50-75 people.
For more information about 2009 Science Café, contact Kids & Chemistry co-chairs, Lisa Thackery (lisa.thackery@dowcorning.com) or Gina Malczewski (gina.malczewski@dowcorning.com).
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