At Schenck High School we celebrate Mole Day on October 23rd every year. Mole Day celebrates Avogadro's Number, 6.02 x 10^23, which is a basic measuring unit in chemistry. Mole Day was created as a way to encourage interest in chemistry, and schools all over the world honor Mole Day with many activities related to chemistry and/or moles.

This year's Mole Day theme was Mole Madness.

Mole Pledge

Here are two different versions of the "Mole Pledge", both created by students.

(When saying the pledge of allegiance to the U.S. flag, one faces the flag. If no flag is present, one should face our nation's capitol, Washington, D.C. When saying the pledge to the mole, a real mole is usually not present, so one should bend over and face the earth.)

I pledge allegiance to the mole, and to the science from which it comes, on SI unit, extremely divisible, with micromoles and millimoles for all.   (Provided by R. Thomas Myers - Kent State University, Kent, OH)

I pledge allegiance to the mole, to the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, and to the atomic mass for which it stands, one number, most divisible, with atoms and molecules for all.   (Provided by Sylvia Cooper - Morgantown High School, Morgantown, WV)

This information was taken from the Mole Day Website - www.moleday.org.