Editing Mole Day (section)

==Overview==
Mole Day originated from a celebration by educator Margaret Christoph.<ref name="Christoph">{{cite journal |last1=Christoph |first1=Margaret |title=Mole day |journal=The Science Teacher |date=October 1985 |volume=52 |issue=7 |pages=47–48 |jstor=24145769 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/24145769 |access-date=24 October 2022 |language=en |archive-date=October 24, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221024124225/https://www.jstor.org/stable/24145769 |url-status=live }}</ref> She wrote an article about her experiences in ''[[The Science Teacher]]'' in the 1980s.<ref name="mole-history">{{cite web |url=http://www.moleday.org/htdocs/history.html |title=History of National Mole Day Foundation, Inc. |publisher=moleday.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101023075040/http://www.moleday.org/htdocs/history.html |archive-date=October 23, 2010 |df=mdy-all |access-date=October 23, 2007 }}</ref> Inspired by this article, Maurice Oehler, a high school chemistry teacher from [[Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin]], founded the National Mole Day Foundation (NMDF) on May 15, 1991.<ref name="mole-history"/>

Many high schools around the United States, South Africa, Australia, and Canada celebrate Mole Day as a way to get their students interested in chemistry, with various activities often related to chemistry or moles.<ref name="mole-history"/>

The [[American Chemical Society]] sponsors [[National Chemistry Week]],<ref name=ncw/> which occurs from the Sunday through Saturday during which October 23 falls. This makes Mole Day an integral part of National Chemistry Week.{{cn|date=July 2022}}