The school’s Chemistry in Action Mobile Lab has traveled 18,000 kilometers in Taiwan, with the International Year of Chemistry having entered its third year. The Chemistry in Action Mobile Lab has returned to southern Taiwan, with plans to visit thirteen schools outside Kaohsiung, starting at Nanlong Junior High School on August 12th where scholars and junior high school students can experience the many colorful changes taking place in chemistry. In addition, the determination of Kaohsiung and experts in the chemistry industry to cooperate in launching educational diversity will be made public. The Chinese Chemical Society is hosting the chemistry activities program in the countryside with the help of the project leader, College of Science Dean Wang Bo-cheng. In addition to signing a cooperation agreement with the Kaohsiung City Department of Education, they will come to Nanlong Junior High School that day to participate in this event for the joint promotion of chemistry education, thereby sharing with students their experience of a career in chemistry research.

Dean Wang has stated that the Chemistry in Action Mobile Lab can travel all over Taiwan. In addition to support from the National Science Council and the Bureau of Education as well as the enthusiastic participation of students from the Chemistry Department of each school, the kind support of domestic chemistry-related industries has been given for the funding of activities, industry information, samples of raw materials and testing apparatus. These chemistry industry businesses are willing to dispatch personnel as volunteers to participate in activities that provide in-depth help for each region. This type of enterprise helps with conducting social services feedback that makes the chemistry education campaign even more meaningful.

The entire student body of the Nanlong Junior High School participated in this event. In the morning, they looked at wall posters detailing the early life of Madame Curie, relating many interesting accounts of the history of chemistry, with an easy-to-understand introduction of the products and status of the domestic chemistry industry. The afternoon event was a high point with demonstrations of chemistry experiments in sound and light changes that allowed students to begin hands-on experiments with an elevated mindset. This included principles of chemistry such as ideas about acids and alkalis, crosslink reactions and surfactants, three experiments designed to give students a hands-on experience.

Nanlong Junior High School Principal Chiu Yan-fu thanked Tamkang University for its help in guiding students toward the proper study methods, and for pointing our daily life activities designed to provide students with a multi-pronged approach to come in close contact with chemistry and to realize the importance of chemistry in daily life.

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