On Saturday, Feb. 23, at 11 a.m., the Chelsea Public Library will host an interactive STEM demonstration led by Dr. Alfred Donatelli, chair of the Chemical Engineering Department at UMass/Lowell.
This event is organized as part of Black History Month programming by the Lewis Latimer Society and Museum, under the direction of Co-Directors Ronald Robinson and Leo Robinson, in partnership with the Chelsea Black Community, headed by President Joan Cromwell.
The demonstration aims to highlight STEM education’s significance for young people who will become tomorrow’s engineers and scientists.
Attendees will witness Dr. Al create homemade ice cream using nitrogen, and observe how Slime and Super balls are produced from common household materials and ingredients.
Working alongside Dr. Al will be a team of assistants including Ken Umemba and representatives from the Lewis Latimer Society and Museum, the Chelsea Black Community, and Bunker Hill Community College. Together, they will examine how these experiments apply to chemical engineering reaction kinetics and reaction design, mechanical engineering thermodynamics and heat transfers, emulsion polymerization in plastics engineering, and the effects of weightlessness experienced by astronauts in space.
There is no admission fee for this event.