{"id":11360,"date":"2015-11-18T06:13:36","date_gmt":"2015-11-18T14:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=11360"},"modified":"2015-11-30T09:16:45","modified_gmt":"2015-11-30T17:16:45","slug":"camosuns-science-club-helps-people-ask-critical-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2015\/11\/18\/camosuns-science-club-helps-people-ask-critical-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Camosun\u2019s science club helps people ask critical questions"},"content":{"rendered":"

There\u2019s nothing quite like having a few drinks and talking about all the puzzling questions of the universe. That\u2019s exactly the kind of thing the Camosun Science Club gets up to.<\/p>\n

The club has been active for a year and has over 100 members. It\u2019s run by first-year Applied Chemistry and Biotechnology student Zachary Snow and is open to anybody who has an interest in science; you don\u2019t have to be a Camosun student to be a member of the science club.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m keeping it open to allow anyone who is interested in science to join the science club,\u201d says Snow. \u201cIt allows people who aren\u2019t in the sciences to ask their critical questions.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Camosun Applied Chemistry and Biotechnology student Zachary Snow runs the Camosun Science Club (photo by Jill Westby\/Nexus<\/em>).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The science club has irregular meeting times, as a professor (who isn\u2019t getting paid) and lab are required. The club also does pub nights and socials at McRae\u2019s Bistro.<\/p>\n

\u201cI plan out the events with profs beforehand, go over practicing an experiment together, and move forward into the testing phase,\u201d says Snow.<\/p>\n

In the past, the science club has done labs where they made soap from essential oils, and they\u2019ve also cloned plants. They\u2019ve had professors lecture about subjects like Tesla coils; last year they had Bob McDonald from CBC\u2019s Quirks & Quarks<\/i> come to the school to do a presentation on science journalism and his TED talk, \u201cWhat if everything you know is wrong?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis year, I\u2019m looking at doing an infectious disease lecture and then doing a microbiology lecture, as the two go hand in hand,\u201d says Snow.<\/p>\n

As for the labs this year, if anyone is familiar with MiniMelts, there\u2019s at least one lab that might be of interest.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m planning on guiding the class to make liquid nitrogen ice cream,\u201d says Snow.<\/p>\n

The Camosun science club also goes on field trips; last year they went to Triumf, which is a nuclear physics facility in Vancouver. This trip has inspired Snow\u2019s second lab idea for this year.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe got to see a radiation detector that you can build with 99.9 percent isopropyl alcohol and dry ice,\u201d says Snow. \u201cIt forms this gas layer where it detects the radiation from space.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Camosun Science Club can be found on Facebook; email scienceclub@camosunstudent.org for more info.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There\u2019s nothing quite like having a few drinks and talking about all the puzzling questions of the universe. That\u2019s exactly the kind of thing the Camosun Science Club gets up to. The club has been active for a year and has over 100 members. It\u2019s run by first-year Applied Chemistry and Biotechnology student Zachary Snow […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11361,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus","category-november-18-2015"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11362,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11360\/revisions\/11362"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}