WPI Chemistry Camp

Professor Grimm (the cancer cell)

TAs: Christine and Kaitlin

My table:

Valli Sara Talia

Saaniya me Alissa

Experiments: solar cells, LED bulbs in liquid nitrogen (which Saaniya and I presented), hot and cold packs (which Valli, Sara, Talia, and Alissa presented), compounds on fire, hands on fire (technically bubbles on the hands), dry ice glow stick, burning sugar (or something like that), vanadium oxidation (we had to determine which form of vanadium a solution was by oxidizing it), luminol (we only did that on presentation day), flourescent E.coli painting, liquid nitrogen ice cream, plants in liquid nitrogen

Learned: always wear goggles, gloves, and a lab coat, hair tied back, bangs clipped back, tuck long hair into lab coat, PRECISE measurements, official stuff (experiments) on right pages, pen squiggles and unimportant stuff on left pages, professors can fail too, science can be "broken", sneakers (no converse) - I only brought converse and felt pretty bad the whole week, pen (no pencils allowed near notebooks), ways to dispose of different chemicals, everything is dangerous in a lab, what Christine and Kaitlin are working on (cancer related stuff), bring a bigger fan next time, 1010! is an excellent escape from awkwardness, how to play UNO, B.S. can't be played everyday or else everyone will get bored, RPAs aren't scary, professors aren't too scary, scientists break beakers accidentally, scientists break beakers when they're mad, beakers and gloves aren't expensive (but basically everything else is), mini golf is difficult, never go on a gyro, people take too much time on giant trampolines (10 minutes to strap them in a safety harness), chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream is still the best

Videos:

Gloria, Alissa, Karen, Me, Annie, Lynn, Celeste, Liz, Anna

Bernadette, Karen, me, Celeste, Aashvi, Lynn, Alissa, Annie, Gloria

I also discovered this photo, and found it amusing:

Voila!

And with that exclamation, I conclude my summary.