Each year the American Chemical Society (ACS) recognizes local sections, divisions and International Chapters at the ChemLuminary Awards for outstanding outreach activities promoting Chemistry. This year, the ACS Jamaica International Student Chapter was a finalist for the Global Engagement Award for their staging of CHEMFEST2020 - an exciting virtual chemistry festival featuring participants from around the world. For the award, Jamaica was competing against international ACS chapters from Brazil, Peru, Saudi Arabia, Nigeria and Pakistan. Peru emerged the eventual winners from this stellar grouping when the awards were announced at the 23rd Annual ChemLuminary Awards ceremony held virtually on Thursday, October 21, 2021 during National Chemistry Week. Congrats ACS Jamaica on copping this global nomination. Well done!
Click here https://vimeo.com/637260354/6457b738d4 to view the23rd Annual ChemLuminary Awards ceremony. See the Jamaica team at minute 7:52 and the award announcement at 51:03.
CHEMFEST was organized by Dr. Petrea Facey, Dr. Ainka Brown, Dr. Joy Ann Marks and Dr Andrea Goldson-Barnaby with student assistants Ricaldo Pryce, Marcel Denny, Kiara Shannan, Kyra Taylor, Debbie Ann Phillips and Brittania Cheese.
To see highlights from CHEMFEST2020: https://www.mona.uwi.edu/fpas/chemfest-2020-%E2%80%93-what-reaction
Published on 04 Nov, 2021
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