By: Lance Lawton<\/p>\n
We may not have Bill Nye<\/a> on campus to entertain us with science, but the Alchemist Club<\/a> is the next-best thing at Western.<\/p>\n The Alchemist Club is a student science organization that allows students on-and-off campus to come \u201cWe sit down with one another and look at graduate schools together,\u201d Prest said. \u201cWe also look for future Alchemist Club President Merle Phillips said that the Alchemist Club has been around at Western for almost 50 years and is still pushing to provide campus and the community with the opportunity to learn more about science.<\/p>\n \u201cScience should be free and open to the public,\u201d Phillips said. \u201cWe love being able to interact with the The Alchemist Club holds two major events every year: The Fire and Ice Show (formerly known as Pumpkin Blasting) and Super Science Saturday. The Fire and Ice Show, performed on Nov. 1, was filled with grade school-type experiments, from making a whoosh bottle to setting a pumpkin on fire. Super Science Saturday occurred in January 2019, attracting almost 2,000 people from the community to experience various types of science experiments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By: Lance Lawton We may not have Bill Nye on campus to entertain us with science, but the Alchemist Club is the next-best thing at Western. The Alchemist Club is a student science organization that allows students on-and-off campus to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[204],"tags":[740,741,706,737,60],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/yearbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4740"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/yearbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/yearbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/yearbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/yearbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/yearbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4741,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/yearbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4740\/revisions\/4741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/yearbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/yearbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/yearbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\ntogether, execute various experiments and admire all things associated with chemistry. Junior biochemistry molecular biology major Rebecca Prest explained that members of the club do not just perform experiments all day; they also help each other out academically.<\/p>\n
\ncareer opportunities and tech schools; along with that, we also help each other out with any homework
\nwe have. The room we\u2019re usually in is what we call the \u201cMentor Room,\u201d and there is usually someone in
\nthere that can support us whenever we need chemistry help.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nstudents and anyone else who is interested in any sort of science.\u201d<\/p>\n