Benjamin

Hi, my name is Ben! I am from North Carolina and grew up here my whole life. I went to college at NC State University with a major in Chemistry with Honors and after that, I attend the University of Chicago and obtained my degree in Inorganic Chemistry. I love tutoring and teaching chemistry, and I have done this for multiple years. Outside of tutoring, I love running, hiking, kayaking and rock climbing and being active in general.

Willing to travel: 30 miles

Experience: I have 6 years of experience in a mix of different forms of teaching. From 2019-2020, I was an Academic Success Peer Tutor where I tutored students individually in General Chemistry 1 and 2, Organic Chemistry 1 and 2, Engineering Physics 1 and 2, as well as provide drop-in tutoring services for Calculus I, II, and III. In 2020, I was an Honors and Scholars Village Fellow for NC State where I mentored and assisted first-year university honors and scholars student clusters enrolled in interdisciplinary thematic first-year Honors seminars. In 2022, I served as an organic chemistry 1 teaching assistant at NC State where I managed 1 lab section per week and taught 5 different organic chemistry 1 lab techniques that were used in Organic chemistry including performing thin layer chromatography (TLC), infrared (IR) spectroscopy, liquid extractions, small scale syntheses of organic products, and gas chromatography (GC). Lastly, one of my major teaching experiences came as a graduate teaching assistant where I taught discussion sections and laboratory sections for Honors General Chemistry (CHEM 121), Experimental Physical Chemistry (CHEM 267), and Organic Chemistry III (CHEM 222). In CHEM 121, helped students understand concepts in thermodynamics and kinetics. Helped to develop and pilot a new two-week electrochemical hands-on lab module for the Chemistry 267, Experimental Physical Chemistry course entitled "Mechanism of Hydrogen Evolution on Catalytic Transition and Late Metal Electrodes." In CHEM 222, helped students understand organic chemistry concepts such as carbonyl chemistry, and amine chemistry. In the accompanying lab, students gained experience in multi step synthesis, use of NMR, IR, and GC techniques to analyze samples.