Chemistry Week: The Hidden Life of Spices
Most of the time when you think of spices, you think of how you’re seasoning your food. Did you know spices can do more than that? FWCD AP and Organic Chemistry students will explore the science of spices with sponsors and partners of the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History during National Chemistry Week, October 23-25. Twenty-one Upper School students are joining in on the fun of this year’s theme, “The Hidden Life of Spices” as they run events at the museum on Saturday, October 25, from 10 a.m.-3 p.m.
National Chemistry Week is an annual event that highlights the pivotal role chemistry plays in our everyday lives. Under the theme “The Hidden Life of Spices,” they aim to showcase how chemistry plays a role in something that everyone has in their home, apices. From using spices to enhance flavors to creating natural dyes for our hair and clothes, the chemistry of spices has been a part of human history since they were discovered.
Throughout the week, museum-goers will engage in a number of activities, including using your sense of smell to guess different spices, testing spices to see if they are hydrophobic vs. hydrophilic, making turmeric invisible ink and more!
Leading up to the event, Upper Schoolers went to the Lower and Middle School assemblies to showcase a fun experiment and highlight National Chemistry Week. Eight students helped lead the way and organize the presentations, which included Kerri Tsai ’26, Eliza Hilliard ’26, Catherine Hart ’26, Zaiya Collins ’26, Madeline O’Neill ’26, Andrew Lobo ’26, Ethan Lampka ’26, Eleanor Holm ’26. Other students involved were Grady Roth ’27, Rayden Liddell ’27, Gavin Rentería ’27, Elisha Evans ’27, Catherine Zhang ’28, Blake Wood ’27, Mary Evans Bumstead ’27, Ryan Bagshahi ’27, Lucy Wegman ’27, Zayn Alame ’27, Claire Schwartz ’27, Martha Linker ’27, Ameer Ali ’28, Paxtyn McPeak ’26, Nate Blan ’26 and Nathan Horsche ’26.
