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Time to Volunteer for 2009

The 2008 Illinois State Fair is now history.  We have had our best year ever:  Over 14,000 visitors to our tent and 350 CD's given to teachers and educators.  We are preparing for the 2009 Fair —  Please help.

Information for our visitors at the Fair:

• ChemShorts for Kids - over 160 experiments you can do at home
• Link to the experiments at the Fair
• The 2008 Teacher's CD

  Photos from the 2008 Fair!   

Check out our daily update of our activities at the Fair.

Here are the links to:

• Interactive map to the fairgrounds
• Descriptions of some of the experiments you may have seen in our tent.
• The chemistry and science quiz that was running in our tent.
• The list of over 160 experiments to do with young kids.
• Link to the full list of educational resources available on the CD distributed to educators.  New this year some video demonstrations.
• Become a sponsor of our tent.

Photos from the 2008 Fair
Photos from the 2007 Fair
Photos from the 2006 Fair
Photos from the 2005 Fair
Photos from the 2004 Fair

A consortium of Illinois Sections of the American Chemical Society is hosting a booth at the Illinois State Fair.   We are presenting a variety of exciting chemistry demonstrations and hands-on activities suitable for young students, as well as an interactive simple chemistry quiz.  Literature is available on environmental issues, lists of educational resources, and ACS activities for students, science teachers, and the general public.  Packets of information, including resource CDs, are offered to teachers visiting our booth.

Where is our tent?  Here's a map of Springfield, a map to the Fair and a map to help you find our tent.  Conservation World is in the north-west corner of the Fairgrounds.  Local weather at the Fairgrounds.