The Student Affiliates of the American Chemical Society (SAACS) chapter at the University of Tennessee at Martin will hold a clinic, March 1, to help area Boy Scouts earn their chemistry merit badge.

SAACS members will have all the materials ready for the Boy Scouts to perform the experiments needed to meet the merit badge requirements.

The clinic gets under way at 8:30 a.m. in the Joseph E. Johnson Engineering and Physical Sciences Building on the UT Martin campus.

The clinic will conclude about 12:30 p.m. Scoutmasters and/or parents may register their Boy Scouts by calling (731) 587-7454.

Registration is also available by fax at (731) 587-7443; e-mail at saacs@utm.edu; or by mail at UT Martin SAACS, Department of Chemistry, UT Martin, Martin, TN 38238. Scouts will be charged $5 for light refreshments, the merit badge manual and materials on their arrival. The registration deadline is Feb. 27.

To register include the name of each Boy Scout, his Scoutmaster's name and his troop number.

Under the leadership of UT Martin SAACS students, scouts will perform experiments related to: pollution, chromatography, determining vitamin C in juices, determining household acids and bases, corrosion and its prevention, and more.

For more information, contact the UT Martin SAACS adviser Dr. S.K. Airee at (731) 587 7454.