The free event will bring state-of-the art equipment and hands-on experiments to Ballarat High School this Thursday and Friday.

The program imparts a national focus on science, technology, engineering and mathematics on year 9-12 students.

Through the ‘be a chemist for a day’ program, years nine and 10 students will learn to convert aspirin into deep heat, vinegar into banana essence, generate electricity using lemons, and use a Victoria University invention that can help wildlife caught in oil spills.

Year 11 and 12 students will put their VCE chemistry theory into practice by using sophisticated analytical instruments to analyse aspirin in medications, sugars in honey, caffeine in energy drinks and  the chemical structure of molecules.