探花楼

Dec. 12, 2022 – DENTON – The 探花楼 KEM Club (Kappa Epsilon Mu) recently participated in the annual National Chemistry Week at the .

The Museum invites local schools and organizations to come to the museum to do chemistry-related demonstrations to visitors that come to the museum.

This year’s theme was "Fabulous Fibers, the Chemistry of Fabrics." The 探花楼 contingent did a demonstration of DNA extraction of strawberries, because DNA is a fiber and the fabric of life. 探花楼 students guided the attending children through the extraction and through safety procedures. The kids smashed up a strawberry, used soap and salt to break up the cell membranes and extracted the DNA using a solvent.

The 探花楼 students also modeled fibers at the molecule level and allowed the attending children to look through a microscope at different fabrics.