Cottonwood Elementary School students visit CBC
On Thursday, February 27, 2025, 5th graders from Cottonwood Elementary School visited CBC. It was great to see these young people so excited to be on a college campus and getting to visit the labs. Drs. Brooke Massani and Paul Lee, along with Tiffany Luu, Abena Oduro-Gyaminah, Natalie Sanchez and Samantha Thomas, CBC Ambassadors escorted the guests, and they got to see a glass blowing demonstration and tour the Laboratory for Electron Spectroscopy and surface Analysis and the Keck Center for Nanoscale Imaging.
They did copper to zinc to brass pennies as a hands-on demonstration with the visitors getting to try on lab coats, goggles, and gloves. Afterwards they had lunch and Dr. Lee presented a chemistry show. There were many questions that were sent to CBC by our guests and some of them are ‘Are protons, neutrons, and electrons the smallest things of the universe?’, ‘Are Elements still being created and put on the periodic table?’, and ‘If atoms are not living things, then how are we living?’.
CBC continues to receive a significant number of outreach requests from different schools and organizations to present and participate in outreach, such as providing demonstrations and interactive demonstrations, scheduling lab tours, having chemistry “magic shows,” meeting potential students, and attending high school career fairs.
CBC has a long history of engaging our community. CBC faculty, staff members, and several volunteer student groups respond to outreach requests from schools and organizations in the Tucson area. We love the opportunities to show the amazing world of chemistry and biochemistry to lifelong learners of all ages!
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