CAREERS

For further information on careers contact:

Chemical Industries Association
www.cia.org.uk

Royal Society of Chemistry
www.rsc.org

Institute of Chemical Engineers
www.icheme.org
or visit www.whynotchemeng.com to find out more about chemical engineering, download teaching materials, request a visit from an IChemE volunteer for science/careers events and obtain other printed information.

The Royal Society of Chemistry and YCF sponsored Chemistry at Work 2007 hosted by the University of Huddersfield. More than 200 students from a wide range of schools and colleges attended the event.

They were able to see and hear what chemistry in the work place is all about from chemists and scientists from a range of companies including Syngenta, Ciba Speciality Chemicals and NPIL Pharma and attended a session run by Becky Farnell from Ciba, the 2006/7 current Chemical Industries Association Young Ambassador.

Why not try some of the questions from the YCF quiz:

A tomato gets its red colour from: 
a     Beta carotene 
b     Fructose 
c     Lycopene 
d     Limonene

How many bottles of shampoo are made in West Yorkshire each year? 
a     500,000 
b     5 million 
c     50 million 
d     120 million

When you chop onions, your eyes burn because a chemical reactions produces: 
a     Acetic acid 
b     Hydrochloric acid 
c      Nitric acid 
d     Sulphuric acid

How far could an average family car travel on the petrol produced in 1 year at the ConocoPhilips oil refinery in the Humber? 
a     from Lands End to John o’Groats twenty times 
b     around the equator 
c     to the moon and back