{"id":2185,"date":"2017-11-15T11:55:03","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T17:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rctc.edu\/echo\/?p=2185"},"modified":"2025-02-12T10:42:59","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T16:42:59","slug":"chemistry-class-gives-student-freedom-to-study-what-i-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/chemistry-class-gives-student-freedom-to-study-what-i-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Chemistry class gives student freedom to study what I love&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11475\" style=\"width: 256px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11475\" class=\"wp-image-11475 size-medium\" src=\"\/echo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Lul-Sharif-1-246x300.jpg\" alt=\"Lul Sharif - RCTC Student\" width=\"246\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Lul-Sharif-1-246x300.jpg 246w, https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Lul-Sharif-1-1047x1280.jpg 1047w, https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Lul-Sharif-1-768x938.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Lul-Sharif-1-1257x1536.jpg 1257w, https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Lul-Sharif-1.jpg 1383w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 246px) 100vw, 246px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-11475\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lul Sharif \u2013 RCTC Student<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>By Munira Alimire<br>\n<\/b>Arts and Entertainment Editor<br>\nMunira.Alimire1651@mb.rctc.edu<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Lul Sharif, a full-time PSEO student and high school senior, is one of four students partaking in Dr. Heather Sklenicka\u2019s chemistry research class.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">She signed up for the class after taking another class under Dr. Sklenicka and enjoys it \u201cbecause of the freedom I have to study what I love: chemistry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Sharif is beginning to formulate a project she could work on this year, but so far, she\u2019s worked on a demo at Gibbs Elementary School for students who participated in the summer reading program.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">\u201cThe demo\u2019s theme was color, so I did this really simple experiment where I poured milk in a bowl, placed a few drops of dye and then placed a cotton swab that had been dipped in soap in the center. The colors will then spread outwards quickly, creating rings of color, and if you felt like it, you could paint Starry Night on it,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Sharif\u2019s classmates did other demos, some which shouldn\u2019t be repeated at home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">\u201cOne did an iodine color change that mixed sulfuric acid, iodine and starch, and the solution turned from clear to blue-black quite suddenly!\u201d Sharif said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">Sharif is earning her liberal arts degree and hopes to be accepted to Yale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lul Sharif, a full-time PSEO student and high school senior, is one of four students partaking in Dr. Heather Sklenicka&#8217;s chemistry research class.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":11475,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rctc.edu\/echo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}