Marissa Clapson

“Waving the Green Flag”

Lead Facilitator: Marissa Clapson, Assistant Professor, University of Prince Edward Island

Co-Organizers: Emma Davy, Educator Specialist (University of British Columbia), Julia Pitsiaeli, BSc. Student (University of British Columbia), Shauna Schetchel, PhD Candidate (Queen’s University), Greg Bannard, PhD Candidate (University of Windsor), Jasmine Hong, PhD Candidate (McGill University), Gagan Daliaho, PhD Candidate (McGill University), Connor Durfy, Research Associate (Western University).

Project Description

The symposium “Waving the Green Flag” will be held at the CSC Conference as a half-day session on Thursday, June 5th. Building on the success of our green chemistry education symposium last year, this project uses a nontraditional symposium model to facilitate education and open discussion about green chemistry principles, acting as a resource for participants to implement current sustainable principles into chemistry education and inorganic chemistry research. 

This project aims to provide an accessible, engaging symposium that facilitates learning through gamification in hands-on activities, looking at application-based case studies of sustainability and synthesis. The nontraditional symposium model focuses on using multi-dimensional learning methods to challenge and educate symposium participants. 

This project aims to foster scientific discourse and provide a space for open discussion and learning about how to implement sustainable green chemistry practices into academia, industry, and education. Our hope is the participants leave feeling empowered to educate others about green chemistry in academic, industrial and educational settings. We will provide clear, actionable resources that will provide participants with a toolbox that they can use to implement sustainability or green chemistry discussion topics in their own education and research settings.