The Be a Chemist! program invites children to take the role of scientists and engineers as they investigate how chemistry creates the materials of everyday life. The activities encourage scientific practices like making observations and testing hypotheses while exploring the following questions:

• What chemicals make up the materials in the world around us?
• How are substances alike or different?
• How do substances interact and change when they are mixed together?

Each Be a Chemist! activity highlights a real-world career through a story that invites children to play the role of a person in that career.

We invite youth entering 2nd- 6th grad to join us this summer as we explore our world through hands-on experiments in chemistry! This year all ages will be able to attend whichever session works best for them.  We will have morning (10:15 am- 11:15 am) and afternoon (11:30 am- 12:30 pm) sessions.

Participants should attend 4 of the 5 days if at all possible.  

Science in the Summer, supported by GSK, is a free hands-on science summer program for youth entering grades 2-6.

Questions? Please call the Grundy Library at 215.788.7891.

This program is offered by Margaret R. Grundy Memorial Library in support of the PA Forward | Pennsylvania Libraries initiative. Libraries are key to powering progress and elevating the quality of life in PA by fueling the types of knowledge essential to success: Basic Literacy, Information Literacy, Civic and Social Literacy, Health Literacy, and Financial Literacy.