Community Outreach & Communications

Community education is an essential piece to an environmentally, socially and economically prosperous world. Beyond Benign seeks to educate the community to inspire future scientists and to create more informed consumers and voters who are able to support a growing industrial market based in concepts of Green Chemistry and sustainability.

Beyond Benign’s team of educators & College Fellows interface with community groups to increase awareness of Green Chemistry and to increase science literacy. Regionally, Beyond Benign participates in the following activities:

• K - 12 After School Mentoring
• College & University visits and seminars
• Science Fairs
• Community-based informational events
• Beyond Benign newsletter for Green Chemistry

Invite or Visit Us:

2011-2012 Field Trips

Regional middle, high schools and colleges/universities are encouraged to contact and schedule your field trips for the next academic year by contacting us at outreach@beyondbenign.org or 978.229.5454.

Field Trip Outreach Options [PDF]

Outreach Spotlight:

Industrial Green Chemistry World 2012 (IGCW)

Beyond Benign and Warner Babcock Institute for Green Chemistry were invited to participate in the Industrial Green Chemistry World Conference in Mumbai, India over December 4-6, 2011. The conference was truly international with representatives from across the globe. Over the three days hundreds of participants attended the symposium, seminar series, exhibition and Green Innovation Award ceremony. Beyond Benign co-coordinated both a student and teacher workshop which followed the conference and had over 400 attendees.

Green ChemisTree Foundation and Newreka Green Synth Technologies' Pvt. Ltd. organized the conference and are doing incredible ground breaking work in India. Green ChemisTree Foundation is a non-profit arm of Newreka, created to bring forth technical know-how to the chemical industry and update them on global trends of green chemistry and engineering (GC&E) applications. Newreka Green Synth Technologies' Pvt. Ltd. is an Enviropreneur venture, initiated by Chemical Engineers from IIT- Bombay, with the objective to address environmental concerns by reducing the E-factor.

With a decade of pioneering work in providing valued services to pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, and the dyes & pigments industry, Newreka team is committed to improve chemistry intensive processes through Recycle at Source- a customized proprietary technology and an innovative approach for chemical business that takes care of the company's environmental, social and economical bottom lines.

For more information about the Foundation and the company and to watch many of the presentations from the conference visit the website:

http://www.industrialgreenchem.com/

Beyond Benign Outreach Fellows & ACS Undergraduate Students Reach Out to D.C. Kids

SCIENCE FAIR OPPORTUNITIES:

Be a judge at an upcoming high school science fair- every little bit you can do to help support students in science helps. By weaving green chemistry into the conversation that could be the only time they learn about it!

Green Schools first Student Ambassador meeting of 2012 was held at Beyond Benign. A small group of middle and high schools participated in a tour of Warner Babcock Institute for Green Chemistry, built dye-sensitized solar cells and learned about the role green chemistry plays in sustainability. Outreach Fellows facilitated the building of the solar cells and a lively discussion about the complexity of sustainability and the many career opportunities that exist in the field of green chemistry.
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