The annual Portland American Chemical Society High School and Undergraduate Poster Symposium and Career Fair will be special this year.  Aside from being the first in three years, it will also be concurrent with the quadrennial Pauling Symposium, which is also being hosted by the Portland Section.  The event will be held on Saturday (NOTE! Not the usual Sunday!) October 29, at the RLSB Building on the South Waterfront, from 11 AM-1 PM.  This year we are inviting the Puget Sound Section to join the Oregon and Portland sections, and we are opening it to grad students as well (although they will be in a separate category for prize purposes).  There will be no Career Fair this year.

All poster presenters are invited to attend the Pauling Symposium and Banquet free of charge.  Those wishing to do so should register for the Pauling Symposium Banquet separately.

I am writing to seek your help in getting this information to every undergraduate or high school student attending a school in the Portland or Oregon or Puget Sound ACS sections who did chemistry-related research during the past year.  No one knows this better than the faculty.  Please forward this to appropriate students; in addition to those who did research on campus, please try to remember those who did research somewhere else.  Company and national lab internships count, as long as the students are able to divulge their results, and researchers from other departments are also welcome, as long as there is some connection to chemistry.  The results need not be high impact—we understand that some projects do not work as expected, but one can still make good posters about them.  

There is no selection process for this event—any student registering may present.  Full information, including registration instructions, can be found at the following web site:  https://sites.google.com/site/portlandacsposters/home.  However, we do not want a bunch of no-shows—registration should constitute a good-faith commitment to attend and present.

Deadline for registration is October 15.  We need some lead time to prepare the booklet.