On May 20 FHN’s science club will be going on a field trip to the College of Pharmacy.

They’re taking a little more than 25 students.

“The trip to the pharmacy college is to give students a chance to view what it’s like to be a pharmacist,” Donna Malkmus, science club sponsor, said. “And to see if they’re interested in that as a career.”

This trip will be one of the many end of the year events that science club has planned to participated in.

“We haven’t really done much because all our stuff is at the end of the year,” junior Zach Shollar said.

Students who went on the field trip last year got a good idea of what it would be like to actually be a pharmacist.

“It made me think about a career in pharmacy because it was easy and interesting to see what you can make out of the elements and to see how you can cure people.” senior Nia Payne, who went on the trip last year said. “But chemistry involves a lot of math, and I’m not good at math, so it wasn’t for me. But I would recommend it to students who are good at math and are interested in chemistry.”

The students will take a bus downtown to St. Louis. They will attend a seminar from a student who’s currently enrolled in the college about college life and the programs that are offered there. They will get breakfast and lunch there. They will get a tour of the college, and then they will have the opportunity to make something in a lab. Last year they made calamine lotion, an anti-inching agent, mostly used for poison ivy.

“It was so fun making the lotion,” Payne said. “It was cool, and we got to see how Icy Hot is made.”

This field trip is open to anyone who would like to go.
But this isn’t the first or last field trip of the year for the science club.

“Going to the Science Center to see the Body Works exhibit was pretty fun,” Shollar said about his favorite memory from science club this year.

Also coming up is the trip to Henderson Elementary for the magic show. Malkmus is very excited for this trip, and feels it will be the science and chemistry club’s biggest achievement this year.

The members of science club and chemistry club will come together as one big team and travel to Henderson to perform magic tricks for the students.