SCHB is the home for entrepreneurs inside the ACS

For presentation at the Spring National Meeting of the American Chemical Society in San Francisco, CA April 2-6, 2017. Learn more about the ACS Division of Small Chemical Businesses and the ACS National Meeting here.

Format is a poster and it will be featured at the Entrepreneurs' Poster Session Sunday evening from 6pm-8pm Moscone Center Halls B/C and at SCI-MIX on Monday April 3, 2017 from 8pm-10pm in SCHB Moscone Center Hall D.

The Small Chemical Businesses Division of the American Chemical Society is the home for entrepreneurs inside the ACS. When you join SCHB you become part of a powerful network of people from across disciplines and stages in their career. SCHB offers networking lunches at the National Meetings, in addition to partnering with other divisions for cross-divisional technical programming and social events. SCHB flagship programming at National, Regional and Local Section meetings includes true stories, resources for entrepreneurs and the entrepreneurs' toolkit. Get to know us better and join us at our Executive Committee meeting, our technical program and social events in San Francisco and Washington DC, and on the web, Facebook, Twitter, Linked-In and ACS Network. 

ACS Division of Small Chemical Business meetings and lunches at the 2016 #ACSSanDiego

SCHB EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING SAN DIEGO:

SCHB’s technical program will be in Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina, which is adjacent to the San Diego Convention Center, and runs Sunday-Tuesday. The first SCHB event is the Executive Committee Meeting, Saturday March 12, 2016, 6:00-9:00 p.m., and is open and all are welcome to attend; if you have an item for the agenda, please contact Abhi Kantak at secretary@acs-schb.org. Refreshments will be served, please RSVP at https://t.co/brJc37NmOG

SCHB BUSINESS MEETING SAN DIEGO:

SCHB will also hold its 2016 Business Meeting on Monday, 12:00-1:00 p.m. and lunch will be provided. Please RSVP at   https://t.co/oC1unEjR4K.

SCHB MONDAY/TUESDAY LUNCH RSVP LINKS:

SCHB, with PROF, will host Speaker and Member Luncheons, no cost to you. After you RSVP, you will be notified of the room number:

• Monday 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m., RSVP at https://t.co/oC1unEjR4K
• Tuesday 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m., RSVP at https://t.co/SnsR1TDXHv

#NERM12~a @pidgirl's eye view: The lost post

Here's a previously unpublished blog post from October 2012 which never made it's way out of *Draft Mode* until I came across it today while working on my newsletter!

The 38th Northeast Regional Meeting (NERM) of the American Chemical Society hosted by the Rochester, NY Local Section September 30-October 3 2012, was my first opportunity to organize and facilitate three half day technical sessions for the ACS Division of Small Chemical Businesses. Earlier this year I organized  a social media symposium and SCI-MIX for SCHB at the Fall National Meeting and participated as a speaker in the True Stories of Success of Chemical Entrepreneurs in San Diego at the Spring National Meeting. 


At NERM for 2 minutes and already found the ACS President! At Science is FUN science teacher workshop. —L to R with George Ruger and Bassam Shakhashiri, ACS 2012 President.

Jennifer Maclachlan ‏@pidgirl

Now on the 2nd floor of the Radisson #NERM12 for Science is Fun demo with ACS President Bassam Shakhashiri pic.twitter.com/LbdZJAEs 

I stuck around before checking the symposium room for SCHB banner setup because I love listening to Bassam speak and decided to live tweet from the Science Teacher Workshop.
 

After setup while on the way to the opening reception I ran into Tom Gilbert from my Local Section. While chatting with him I told him about the upcoming NESACS Cape Cod Science Cafe~The Chemistry of Wine Event that my father and I had organized. Tom asked me to send him the information about the event and he even ended up making the trek to Cape Cod and attending!

Jennifer Maclachlan and Andy Jorgensen

As I circulated around the room I saw Bill Suits who introduced me to Andy Jorgensen. Turns out Andy is an old HNU PID customer of mine! I asked him if I could get a picture with him and post it on my company Facebook page and Tweet it. Andy agreed!

Sidebar: Bill and I served together on the ACS National Committee on Public Relations and Communications in 2011 but he and my father *go way back*. Bill used to sell the HNU PIDs back when he worked at Varian as a Chromatography Specialist.

George Ruger, Jennifer Maclachlan and Bill Suits

The majority of my SCHB speakers for the three half day sessions were  invited by me or by an introduction and recommendation from a common person. In addition to several email exchanges I also spoke to each of my speakers on the phone. Next time what I will do is introduce the speakers to one another in advance of the symposium and arrange a conference call~it makes such a difference when there has been some rehearsal some feeling of familiarity with one another up at the podium. This is especially essential for a panel discussion. Fortunately we had the session wide coffee break to make quick introductions amongst the panelists so they appeared comfortable.

Jennifer Maclachlan ‏@pidgirl

We're all set up and ready to rock this Monday at #NERM12!@ACSSCHB sessions are in Fitzhugh from 830 until 330 today.pic.twitter.com/7RjpyqD3

Monday morning kicked off with the SCHB flagship programming Best Practices for Entrepreneurs led by Andrew Basner from Syracuse speaking about his experience with the NSF-I Corporation program followed by the importance of intellectual property protection with local area patent attorneys from Heslin Rothenberg Farley and Mesiti PC. This particular session was very well orchestrated with three patent attorneys from the firm speaking on their expertise of topics ranging from copyright protection, trade secrets, patent protection and how all of these can be the determining factor in the success or failure of a small chemical business. This was followed by a facilitated panel discussion led by Bonnie Charpentier, American Chemical Society Board of Directors, Director, District VI

Below is the Best Practices for Entrepreneurs Program which includes presentation title, presenter name and affiliation

   http://www.scribd.com/doc/106382044/chemical-entrepreneurial-programming-at-nerm12"  style="text-decoration: underline;" >Chemical Entrepreneurial Programming at #NERM12

by http://www.scribd.com/jennifer_maclachlan"  style="text-decoration: underline;" >Jennifer Maclachlan

Below is the True Stories of Success by Local Rochester, NY Chemical Entrepreneurs including presentation title, presenter name and affiliation.

   http://www.scribd.com/doc/105241123/true-stories-of-success-nerm12"  style="text-decoration: underline;" >True Stories of Success #NERM12

by http://www.scribd.com/jennifer_maclachlan"  style="text-decoration: underline;" >Jennifer Maclachlan
Below is the COMPLETE program that I organized for the ACS Division of Small Chemical Businesses

   http://www.scribd.com/doc/104705027/Small-Chemical-Businesses-DIV-at-NERM12"  style="text-decoration: underline;" >Small Chemical Businesses DIV at #NERM12

by http://www.scribd.com/jennifer_maclachlan"  style="text-decoration: underline;" >Jennifer Maclachlan

Discover the entrepreneurial resources available to ACS Division of Small Chemical Businesses members

2013 Northeast Regional Meeting, New Haven, CT 

Document ID: NERM1734

Program Area: RM_NERM: Regional Meetings

Symposium Title: (NERM 1030) Small Chemical Businesses - Best Practices for Entrepreneurs Thursday Afternoon at 3:05pm at the Omni Hotel, New Haven, CT #NERM2013 Wooster Room

NEW! Access the FULL presentation below

Discover the entrepreneurial resources available to American Chemical Society Division of Small Chemical Businesses Members from Jennifer Maclachlan

INSTITUTIONS

1. ACS Division of Small Chemical Businesses, Public Relations, Sandwich, Massachusetts, MA, 02563, United States

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AUTHORS

1. Jennifer Maclachlan¹ , Jennifer, ACS Division of Small Chemical Businesses, Public Relations

2. Bonk¹ , Peter, ACS Division of Small Chemical Businesses, Past Chair ACS Division of Small Chemical Businesses

3. S. Chorghade¹ , Mukund, ACS Division of Small Chemical Businesses, Immediate Past Chair ACS Division of Small Chemical Businesses

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L to R: Mukund Chorghade, SCHB Past President, Jennifer Maclachlan, SCHB PR Chair, Joseph Sabol, SCHB Program Chair, George Ruger, SCHB Member & Symposium Organizer at the SCHB Social Event at #ACSPhilly

Title: Discover the entrepreneurial resources available to ACS Division of Small Chemical Businesses members

Abstract Body: The ACS Division of Small Chemical Businesses offers many entrepreneurial resources to it's members. From networking opportunities at local section, National and Regional Meetings to social media connnectivity with other business-minded chemists via SCHB social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Linked-In and to members only content on the ACS Network, SCHB is the social network you want to utilize. Find out what member benefits this small division of ACS has to offer you with your startup or growing small chemical business.