Current Branches
​Atlanta branch (Undergraduate)
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We organize crystallography workshops for undergraduate and high school students to provide them with an engaging lecture, an interactive lunch with professors, post-doctoral associates, and/or university students, and an engaging hands-on crystallography experiment, growing protein crystals with crystallization plates and micropipettes.
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We organize skills-building series to help undergraduate students enter a research position and lecture series to showcase crystallography and structural biology research being done at Georgia Tech to engage undergraduate students in research.
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We host weekly club meetings, teaching students how to grow protein crystals or how to solve macromolecular structures from diffraction data with PHENIX and Coot, depending on the season and lab availability.
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Marietta branch (High school)
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We organize crystal-growing competitions and crystal-growing summer camps for K-12th students, sharing with students the beauty of crystal-growing and how it can be used for science.
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We host weekly club meetings to grow inorganic crystals, such as salt (NaCl), sugar, aluminum potassium sulfate (alum), monoammonium phosphate (MAP), and copper sulfate (CuSO4) crystals, helping high school students learn how to use standard wet-lab equipment for their crystal-growing experiments.
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We experiment with glow-under-UV highlighter ink and crystal inducers to share with students the creativity that is involved in crystal-growing and share with them the theories related to crystal-growth, such as seeding crystals, making supersaturated solutions, etc.​