Making new bonds

Chemistry Club breaks stereotype

because I did get some runoff where people shopping in the mall would look at the market and wonder, ‘Hey, what’s this?’” said Williams about the promenade shoppers.

Vintage and steampunk vendors Jose and Angel Gonzalez, who hold booths at other swap meets such as Saugus Speedway or Melrose, were also doubtful about the Pierce College popularity.

“At Westfield there was more traffic,” Jose Gonalez said. “Everyone knew that the market was at Westfield.”

Jasmin Miko Roundup Reporter

When one hears the word “chemistry,” two possible things come to mind: atoms, elements and ions, or Walter White brewing a batch of blue methamphetamine.

Although the Pierce College Chemistry Club doesn’t involve the concoction of illegal hallucinogens, it does provide the students with an opportunity to become hands-on with the subject.

Club president Eric Hismodes and faculty adviser Sara Harvey lead the class of students with their common interest to form a positive bond of their own.

“It’s a group of students that get together to form study groups and to perform demonstrations,” Harvey said. “If anyone is interested in chemistry and science, they have this common interest where they can stop by our meetings and get to know our students.”

According to Hismodes, Chemistry Club doesn’t emphasize on lecture time or having to pass a class or a test.

Instead, the mission statement of the club is to promote chemistry and change the average student’s views on chemistry.

Someone can in fact hate science but join the club for the hands-on experience, Hismodes said.

Ghazaleh Maccabi, 19, joined the club this semester looking forward to activities and demonstrations the club performs.

“Usually there’s demos at our meetings. We perform some like ‘Growing Spheres’ or ‘Galileo’s Pendulum,’” Hismodes said. “The students get to see the science behind it. We want people to appreciate chemistry and learn about the beauty and the science about it.”

The definite goal of Chemistry Club is to inform the campus and its students that chemistry is an experience one would have to see hands-on.

In order to learn more about it, one would have to be open to opportunity and attend the clubs monthly meetings.

“People hear the word chemistry and they get scared,” said freshman club member Rebecca Zaghi. Chemistry Club was also found at Thurgood Elementary School’s annual Scientific Carnival with the students from CSU Channel Islands on Saturday, Nov. 2. “We’re promoting chemistry and showing the future generation what chemistry is,” Hismodes said. “We want the future to become more involved.”