Carnegie Mellon University

"Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work" Day 2013


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Students learn about solubility and mixing colors with Chemistry graduate student, Selma Ulku.

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(Left) Chemisty undergraduate Rebecca Alford demonstrates an activity using shaving cream and food coloring that shows the results of mixing different substances and color pigments. (Right) The students begin the activity on their own and observe how their materials mix.

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Chemistry undergraduate students, Ernesto Acosta and Rebecca Alford, demonstrate a kitchen chemistry experiment with the help of the visiting middle-schoolers. Here, children learn about solubility by making chocolate mousse.