Career Field – Chemistry

Watch Out for the Bath Bombs! How do those little bath tablets add fizz and fragrance to your bath water? It's really a chemical reaction between citric acid and baking soda, two common household products. We will make our own bath bubblers and test their properties in water of different temperatures. You can even take one home!

Leader – Jennifer Lillig

Jennifer Lillig is a biochemistry professor at Sonoma State University and does research on molecules that destroy disease-causing bacteria. She has a B.S. degree in chemistry from Harvey Mudd College and a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of California San Diego. In addition to chemistry, Jennifer likes to hang out with her family and friends and she is the proud mom of daughter Olivia Lillig.