Planning Chapter Meetings & Events

• Conducting your first ACS student chapter meeting
• Preparing for meetings
• Deciding what to do at meetings
• Hosting social events
• Publicizing events
• Inviting speakers to campus

Hosting a social function is a great way to have fun as a chapter, and to recruit and retain members! Here are ideas for easy-to-plan events:

• Team up with other clubs for activities like picnics, sports competitions, or community service projects
• Host a potluck dinner at the home of a faculty member or advisor
• Go bowling or skating
• Get together for pizza night
• Go on a faculty-student picnic
• Offer retreats geared toward freshmen and transfer students

Your chapter can spread awareness about your organization, planned events and chemistry in many ways. Here are some tips:

• Create a web site
• Place ads and submit articles to your campus newspaper
• Design a newsletter for all members and chemical sciences students
• Create colorful, eye-catching posters and flyers to publicize meetings and special events
• Design an eye-catching logo for posters and flyers
• Wear chapter t-shirts, buttons, and other promotional items
• Get air time on campus radio and TV stations
• Spread news of your events through word of mouth
• Ask professors to announce chapter activities in classes (provide faculty the information at least two weeks in advance)