Speakers: Jan Brossette and Marina Peterknecht, LMU München 

Despite the enormous success of computational chemistry in academic research, it has been underappreciated in the context of high school teaching, even though computational chemistry offers great opportunities for visualization and conceptual understanding of chemical questions. In our student lab for computational chemistry (SC²-LAB), we offer high school students and their teachers the opportunity to get hands-on experience in different fields of computational chemistry, such as machine learning-based protein design, molecular protein and reaction dynamics and density functional theory for understanding chemical reactions. Here we want to illustrate the fundamental design of our SC²-LAB and key strategies in the use of computational chemistry for high school students.