Magic and Where to Find it:CHEMEX-4 at SLECC from 26th to 28th of Jan

“I can teach you how to bottle fame, brew glory, even put a stopper on death”

Are you still living inside a cupboard waiting for a letter from Hogwarts announcing your acceptance to the School of Witchcraft and Wizardry? Are you constantly complaining about how monotonous your life is? Are you day dreaming of a life full of magic and power, discovery and uniqueness? Dream no more.

What if I told you that you don’t need Snape’s Potions classroom to discover mind blowing magic that would alter your life for the better? What if I told you that your ticket to the brewing of a potent potion is your chemistry lab at school?

Chemistry truly is magic, if you know what to do with it. When we are studying for our ordinary levels, chemistry is merely the subject of chemical formulae. C stands for Carbon, H for Hydrogen and the list goes on. If we are lucky we come across an elemental mnemonic like “Hi Hello Little Benny Boy Caught Naughty Ossie Fooling Nellie”, which makes no sense to our parents but us. We learn to draw atoms using dots and crosses and once the science paper is over, we exhale a breath of relief and forget everything we crammed on chemistry.

Then comes advanced levels and we are back to square one. It is when we learn various models proposed for the atom that we realize it is not as simple as the dot and cross we drew during O/Ls. By the time terms like wave particle duality, oxidation, polarizability, feasibility of reaction, and conversions become less Greek to us, we are entangled in a complicated web weaved by our negligence. We begin to race behind past papers and marking schemes. But the few of us who see the magic in chemistry begin to admire why elements behave the way they do creating a myriad of possibilities and we begin to fall in love with how meticulously scientists are working on following the ingenuity of Mother Nature.

By the time we realize that beauty products have made actresses famous, energy drinks have brought glory to athletes and Alexander Fleming’s penicillin has indeed stopped the death of millions, a little flame ignites in us and it whispers, “You too can do magic”

Chemex 4 is the result of that little flame growing into a gigantic fire. Organized by the Institute of Chemistry, Ceylon which is the only professional body of Sri Lankan chemists, Chemex 4 is taking place from 26th- 28th of January 2017 at the Sri Lanka Exhibition and Convention Centre (SLECC). It is the ultimate educational and trade fair which would comprise of over 100 stalls dedicated to diverse fields of chemistry and its applications.

Chemex 4 is your destination if you are a passionate youth yearning for scientific discovery. It is the ideal platform for A/L students to get hands on experience in all the experiments in the A/L chemistry syllabus along with special lectures delivered by the best lecturers in the field. It is the ultimate symposium of professional, industrial, research and academic bodies of chemistry in Sri Lanka.

Behind Chemex 4 is a dynamic task force of highly qualified lecturers, researchers and scientists of Sri Lanka along with the undergraduates of the College of Chemical Sciences working tirelessly on bringing to you the magic of chemistry with the hope that it would aspire you to venture on a journey of finding your potential and executing it for the best of mankind.

Magic is Chemistry and Chemex 4 is where you’ll find it.

Sponsored by: Education Times, DME, HAYCARB, LINK NATURAL, MARINA, CHEMANEX, Antler, Astron, BOC, 4ever, Nestle & TV Derana Lakalya de Silva